State disregard endagers us all

WILKES-BARRE TIMES LEADER:   …The advocacy group based in Washington, D.C., this week announced its yearly rankings of the nation’s most endangered rivers and – for the second time in less than a decade – the Susquehanna River that slices from New York to Maryland, wriggling through the Wyoming Valley along the way, topped the list….

In prior editorials, The Times Leader had urged the state Legislature to brace for handling Pennsylvania’s natural gas boom, providing comprehensive plans for the smart distribution of wealth and the safe extraction of fuel. Harrisburg has failed on both counts.

So far, Gov. Tom Corbett’s administration has been tone deaf to most problems spotlighted by industry watchdogs. And tone deaf to the people…  (more)

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