DEP Outlines 2022 Priorities: Make Up Deficit In Oil & Gas Funding; Get Resources Needed To Invest New Federal Mine Reclamation, Oil & Gas Well Plugging Funds
PA Environment Daily
JANUARY 18, 2022
Since 2003, General Fund support for environmental programs in DEP have been cut about 40 percent and as a result staffing was reduced by nearly 30 percent, especially in water quality protection programs. In calendar 2021, DEP received 741 unconventional well permits , far less than half the number needed to adequately support the program.
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