They are setting up Pennsylvania up for the election. This is all politics. A few weeks ago they gave Pennsylvania an “F” for the support to the Chesapeake Bay? Big deal....the state does not even have a bit of the bay around its border. They want a Democratic Governor and will do all it can to ensure that.
The Democratic candidates will certainly have their work cut out for them trying to explain how small businesses will not be “taxed like crazy” as the cleaning service woman said. Democrat Tom Wolf already is on the record saying that he intends to make fracking companies “pay their fair share”, for one example; other Dem candidates talk about “schools” and other entitlements that drive taxation upwards inexorably.
Problem is that Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection wants farmers and anyone else with creeks and streams running across their properties to pony up some big money to throw into the Chesapeake toilet.