Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection Sues Towns for Trying to Protect Their Environment

From in these times: Fracking injection wells, which blast millions of gallons of water
mixed with chemicals deep underground to expand fissures in the
rock, have triggered earthquakes and polluted drinking water in several
states. In order to prevent energy corporations from dumping toxic
wastewater in their communities, two Pennsylvania townships drafted
local constitutions banning the practice.

Providing another example of how far down the corporate rabbit hole
state and federal governments have gone, on March 27 the Pennsylvania
Department of Environmental Protection (DEP)—the state agency with the
mission “to protect Pennsylvania's air, land and water from pollution
and to provide for the health and safety of its citizens”— sued these
townships for interfering with the oil and gas industry. 

The Pennsylvania Community Rights Network (PACRN) is a
statewide, grassroots organization working to elevate community
interests above corporate interests by advocating the right to local
self-government. According to the group’s website:

The current structure of law in Pennsylvania systematically strips
communities of the power to adopt laws to protect their health and
safety, particularly when those laws come into direct conflict with
corporate decision making. This system thus prohibits communities from
banning projects and activities that they consider dangerous and
harmful—everything from corporate factory farms to the land dumping of
sewage sludge and “hydro-fracking” for natural gas. Unfortunately,
Pennsylvania communities have found out the hard way that the existing
structure does not provide a remedy for these problems, and that a
corporate minority, with the blessing of the state, has almost wholesale
control over our communities on almost any issue that really matters. 

For 15 years, PACRN has been working
alongside the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF)—a
non-profit, public interest law firm that provides “free and affordable
legal services to communities facing threats to their local environment,
local agriculture, local economy and quality of life.”  Thomas Linzey, a
contributing writer to Rural America In These Times, is the executive
director and co-founder of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) and serves as the organization’s chief legal counsel.

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