Op-Ed: We can keep Pennsylvania beautiful without making it poor

Originally published in The Sentinel

Pennsylvania is the most beautiful state in America—you can’t convince me otherwise.

Amazingly, Pennsylvania is also the nation’s biggest energy exporter, according to the Independent Fiscal Office.

How do we manage to combine such a rich natural environment with a thriving energy industry? The secret is Pennsylvania’s abundant natural gas deposit, the second largest in the world, which produces power with drastically less pollution and just half the carbon emissions of coal.

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