To: The Pennsylvania State House, The Pennsylvania State Senate, and Governor Tom Wolf
Support Pennsylvania renewable energy policy
Tell Pennsylvanian representatives and Senators, and Governor Corbett: pass H.B 100, 200, and 950 to limit natural gas exploitation in our state forests and to further develop renewable energy in Pennsylvania!
Why is this important?
Fossil fuels are unsustainable, yet they still comprise the majority of our society’s energy consumption. Technology exists, and continues to improve, for renewable and responsible development of solar, wind, biomass, geothermal, and even of safer nuclear energy, but often the political will does not exist to commit to them over the more conventional, cheaper fossil fuels.
H.B 950, 200, and 100 proposed by Representative Greg Vitali of Delaware County would 1) permanently ban gas drilling in the remaining untouched Pennsylvanian state forestland, almost half of which has already been signed away for development; 2) save the PA Sunshine Solar Program, which helps homeowners and small businesses to install solar systems; 3) amend the Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards Act of 2004 to increase the renewable energy requirement from 8% to 15% and from 0.5% solar to 1.5% solar, which is more competitive with that of other states.
These bills give us an opportunity to correct the dangerously unsustainable path that we are on now, and can lay the foundation for a building a brighter, more hopeful future.
H.B 950, 200, and 100 proposed by Representative Greg Vitali of Delaware County would 1) permanently ban gas drilling in the remaining untouched Pennsylvanian state forestland, almost half of which has already been signed away for development; 2) save the PA Sunshine Solar Program, which helps homeowners and small businesses to install solar systems; 3) amend the Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards Act of 2004 to increase the renewable energy requirement from 8% to 15% and from 0.5% solar to 1.5% solar, which is more competitive with that of other states.
These bills give us an opportunity to correct the dangerously unsustainable path that we are on now, and can lay the foundation for a building a brighter, more hopeful future.