Living in Oil City, I also know that you can have a healthy environment and a healthy fossil fuel industry, but you cannot have a healthy economy without fossil fuels.
Oil and gas and the affordable energy they provide are the lifeblood of our economy, in Pennsylvania, and around the world. The industry supports tens of thousands of jobs in Pennsylvania alone.
But our state and our livelihoods are under assault. Out-of-state billionaires, who fund the so-called Center for Climate Integrity, are trying to start a proxy fight in Allegheny County. Their goal is to persuade states and localities to sue energy companies for damages from weather events that they claim are caused by the “climate crisis.”
