Pennsylvania Natural Resources Agency Ordered To Delete Climate Change Info From Website

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/09/19/3569889/pennsylvania-deletes-climate-info/

by Emily Atkin Posted on September 19, 2014

The Pennsylvania state agency that regulates gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing was explicitly ordered by members of Gov. Tom Corbett’s administration to remove several references to “climate change” from the agency’s website, a former agency employee told the Allegheny Front on Friday.

Adrian Stouffer, a former Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) marketing manager, told the paper that she and other agency employees were told to delete the references to climate change during a meeting at Corbett’s offices in 2012. The administration officials reportedly didn’t want all mentions of climate change taken off the website, but did want references taken off “in cases where we looked like we were giving a position” on whether or not humans cause global warming.

“A lot of it was re-worded to not use the words ‘climate change,’ and other parts were deleted,” Stouffer reportedly told the Allegheny Front. DCNR spokesperson Christina Novak confirmed that the Corbett administration requested the changes to the website, saying they were typical changes that happen whenever a new governor takes office.

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