Cappelletti Joins Suit That Seeks To Enforce Delaware River Fracking Ban

Freshman Pennsylvania State Senator, Amanda Cappelletti, has joined several of her Democratic colleagues in a law suit that seeks to dismiss the case Yaw vs. the Delaware River Basin Commission.

According to TiogaPublishing.com “In January, Republican State Senators Lisa Baker and Gene Yaw, along with officials in Damascus Township (Wayne County), filed a federal lawsuit seeking to overturn a ban on fracking in the Delaware River Basin.

Filed in federal court in Philadelphia, the suit challenges the DRBC’s authority to regulate fracking in the basin and contends that the DRBC is usurping lawmakers’ ability to govern. It asks that the court declare the commission’s actions unconstitutional.”