Environmentalists are split over a new deal struck by Pennsylvania’s governor with a natural gas producer — while some have applauded the effort to move forward amid a legislative deadlock on climate action, those on the front lines fear the agreement amounts to little more than PR, offering a model for the industry to regulate itself.
On Nov. 2, Gov. Josh Shapiro and CNX Resources Corporation President and CEO Nicholas J. DeIuliis — a past vocal opponent of regulations on the energy industry, climate science and “the left,” broadly — signed an agreement in which the fracking company “[expressed] its intention” to adhere to a handful of health and safety reforms Shapiro once recommended as Attorney General.
