The health of Pennsylvania’s environment, waterways, and people are important to Protect PT and 3WRK. We recommend changes and revisions to the updated erosion and sediment permit process. We believe these changes will better protect the environment and ensure that the Department of Environmental Protection is fulfilling their mission to guarantee Pennsylvanians their constitutional rights to a clean and healthful environment.

Protect PT wrote a letter to PA Governor Shapiro to call out undemocratic government proceedings and demand change.

Protect PT and partners wrote to PEMA and Vernon Land Use LLC about the 2023 update of the PEMA State Hazard Mitigation Plan.

Protect PT wrote to the DEP to deny the renewal of the Tonkin gas compressor station.

Protect PT wrote a letter to deny the application for a leachate evaporator at the Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill.

Protect PT and partners wrote a letter to the DEP regarding commenting on Sunoco's Mariner East pipeline. Image Credit: FracTracker

Protect PT wrote a letter to PA DEP to request the denial of the drill and operate permits for the 1H and 7H wells. Several organizations signed on.

Protect PT wrote to the PA DEP requesting them to stop CNX operations near the Beaver Run Reservoir to protect the source water area. 

Protect PT commented during the hearing for the Invenergy proposed Allegheny Energy Center 639 megawatt combined-cycle natural gas-fired power plant, permit number 0959-I001, in Elizabeth Township, Allegheny County

Protect PT requests that the DEP deny permits to CNX Gas Company LLC (CNX) and any other operator in the vicinity of Beaver Run Reservoir on the basis that their operational activity is endangering the vegetation, water quality, and air quality in a Source Water Protection Area.

Protect PT wrote to the District Attorney to follow up on our concerns about operators in Westmoreland. The DA responded in September by forwarding the information to the AG.

Huntley and Huntley (now Olympus Energy) need to be held accountable. An operator was cited for 254 violations on 5 sites.

Letter to the Attorney General to address DEP's and Apex Energy's violations at the Beaver Run site and hold them accountable. PC: Bob Donnan

Protect PT and 6 other environmental groups attended a press conference in front of the Southwestern PA DEP Office to ask Governor Shapiro to direct DEP to improve its regulations by increasing distance between the waters of the Commonwealth and fracking operations. 

Protect PT wrote a letter to the Pennsylvania DEP to deny the issuance of the Delmont North Pipeline Erosion and Sedimentation Control Permit to Hyperion Midstream, LLC.

Protect PT wrote a letter to deny the Erosion and Sedimentation Control General Permit - 3, proposed in December 2022.

Protect PT wrote to the DEP to deny the permitting of the Level Green and Lyons Run pipelines.

Protect PT wrote to the EPA to deny a permit for Sedat 4A Underground Injection Well.

Protect PT and Three Rivers Waterkeeper wrote a letter to the Bureau of Waste Management to address the inadequacies of Draft General Permit WGMR163. Image credit: FracTracker.

Protect PT wrote a letter to PA DEP about the Drakulic Well Pad in Penn Township requesting a public hearing on two new well permits. Photo Credits: Jason Cohn (Pittsburgh Foundation)

Protect PT wrote to the Murrysville Planning Commission regarding the pipeline near the Titan Well Pad.

Protect PT and Environmental Health Project co-wrote a letter to the PA DEP Southwest Regional Director Jim Miller to follow up on requests made by residents during a community meeting in March.

Protect PT wrote the the PA House Democratic Policy Committee with data-driven recommendations for the proposed legislation to close fracking waste loopholes. PC: FracTracker Alliance

Protect PT and Mountain Watershed Association sent a letter to the PA DEP requesting a suspension of permits due to issues surrounding Covid-19

Letter to Inspector General Beemer regarding our requests to the DEP for information on gas operators in Westmoreland County.

The DEP has failed to take our concerns seriously and continued to issue permits to Apex Energy where they continue to rack up violations.

Protect PT and 17 other groups collaborated on a letter to DEP regarding concerns that DEP's proposed policy does not
have the ability to create actual change and improve the environmental pollution
impacts in EJ communities.

FairShake Environmental Legal Services wrote a letter to the Mayor of Monroeville regarding the mishandling of Monroeville Council's Public Hearing on April 4, 2023.

Protect PT wrote a letter to deny the Erosion and Sedimentation Control General Permit - 2 proposed in November 2022. 

Protect PT wrote to the DEP to deny the permitting of Lyons Run Pipeline.

Protect PT wrote to the EPA to deny a permit for Sedat 4A Underground Injection Well.

Protect PT partnered with other organizations from Pennsylvania to write a comment on the renewal of permits for Sunoco's Chapter 102 permits.

Fair Shake Environmental Legal Services wrote to the US EPA on behalf of Protect PT to advocate for the revocation of the Sedat 3A Injection Well Permits. PC: FracTracker Alliance

Protect PT and partner organizations wrote to the US Coast Guard and the US Army Corps of Engineers to request them to not allow fracking waste to be barged on the 3 rivers.

Protect PT, Breathe Collaborative, and Citizens4Plum wrote Governor Wolf , to revoke the permit for the Penneco Sedat #3A class 2 waste disposal well in Plum Borough.

Our concerns about the new pressure barrier policies for unconventional wells due to the lack of enforcement it exhibits for important policies.

Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill applied for a permit to evaporate Leachate from fracking waste at their site. Protect PT wrote to the PA DEP...

Follow-up letter to the DEP regarding operations at Beaver Run dangerously close to the reservoir, with sign-ons from MWA and WMCG.