Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf has passed an industry-backed bill proposing to freeze the bond amounts that fossil fuel companies are required to put up.
This story was first published on July 18 in Capital & Main. A bill that could jeopardize millions of dollars in federal funding to clean up Pennsylvania’s orphaned and abandoned wells by freezing the bond amounts that oil and gas companies are required to put up — and potentially render the state’s well crisis “all but permanent” — has become law after Pa. Gov. Tom Wolf withheld a veto before last night’s midnight deadline.…