This morning we drove to Trenton, the State Capitol of New Jersey, to participate in a press conference thanking the Governor of that state, Phil Murphy, for his efforts to block the PennEast pipeline. New Jersey held that a private for-profit company could not use eminent domain to take agricultural and park land protected by a state government. Last month the U.S. Supreme Court ruled for the pipeline on a 5-4 vote.
Our group thanked Gov. Murphy for taking the case all the way to the Supreme Court, and we urged the Governor not to give up the fight, since there are still state permits under the Clean Water Act that can be denied.
Gov. Wolf, our own governor, welcomed the PennEast pipeline, in keeping with Pennsylvania’s bi-partisan effort to support extractive industries at the expense of its citizens and its environment.
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