
PA Supreme Court Brings New Life Into PA Environmental Rights Amendment
"Much has been written and talked about the impact of the Supreme Court Decision in PEDF v. Governor Wolf, decided a week ago on June 20, 2017, on the development of the meaning of our Environmental Amendment, Article I § 27. The reason why the PEDF brought the action in the first place was to stop the destruction of our State Forests and Parks from the extraction of natural gas and oil. In early 2012, when PEDF first brought the action in Commonwealth Court, 660,000 acres of