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Gov. Tom Wolf Plans to Ban New Fracking in Pennsylvania Parks, Forests
2015-01-29 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Gov. Tom Wolf plans to sign an executive order ending a short-lived effort by his predecessor to expand the extraction of natural gas from rock buried deep below Pennsylvania's state parks and forests, his office said Wednesday. Following through on a campaign pledge, Wolf will sign the order restoring a moratorium on new drilling leases involving public lands on Thursday at Benjamin Rush State Park in northeast Philadelphia. It will supersede an order that Republican Gov. Tom Corbett signed...
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