PennFuture Condemns PJM Plan;Will Cost Consumers $3-4 Billion While Failing to Protect Electricity Supply
Harrisburg — Citizens for Pennsylvania’s Future (PennFuture) condemned the plan announced today by PJM Interconnection (PJM), the regional electricity system operator, to ask the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to approve their flawed scheme to protect the electricity supply and put the so-called Reliability Pricing Model (RPM) into effect. While details of the proposal are ske

Pittsburgh, PA - The Mountain Watershed Association (MWA) and Citizens for Pennsylvania’’s Future (PennFuture) announced today that the Environmental Hearing Board has sustained their appeal challenging the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection’’s (DEP) renewal of a wastewater discharge permit for the Potato Ridge clay mine in Fayette County operated by Kaiser Refractories. The Board’’s June 23, 2005 ruling revoked the permit renewal and sent the permit back to DEP for further cons

Harrisburg– Citizens for Pennsylvania’s Future (PennFuture) today praised Governor Ed Rendell, Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Secretary Kathleen McGinty and the overwhelming majority of the Environmental Quality Board (EQB) for voting to move forward to write regulations requiring Pennsylvania’s coal-fired power plants to reduce their toxic mercury pollution. Today’s 16 - 3 vote by the EQB showed strong support of the petition asking for a state limit on mercury filed by PennFutur

Aug 4, 2005 - Parents Make a Personal Plea to Representative Adolph: Our Children’’s Health Should Be Protected
Springfield, PA — Citizens for Pennsylvania’’s Future (PennFuture) today joined mothers, fathers and children, and representatives from health care, sporting, women’’s rights, faith-based, children’’s advocacy and conservation organizations, to call for Representative William Adolph, Jr., to put the health of children above politics and support PennFuture’’s proposal to the Departmen

Harrisburg, PA — Citizens for Pennsylvania’s Future (PennFuture), joined by representatives from health care, sporting, women’s rights, faith-based, children’s advocacy and conservation organizations, today called for Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to put the health of citizens above politics and continue working on new regulations to reduce toxic mercury from the state’s coal-fired power plants. The groups released a joint letter to DEP Secretary Kathleen McGinty u