On February 5, seventeen member groups of the Growing Greener Coalition released a statement saying while they are “heartened” by Gov. Wolf’s budget proposal, “there is a tremendous backlog of environmental infrastructure needs requiring the state’s attention and demanding much higher levels of investment.”

Those needs include:

• 19,000 miles of Pennsylvania rivers and streams are unsafe for drinking, swimming, fishing, and boating.
• State parks and forests require nearly $1 billion in necessary repairs.
• More than 200,000 acres of abandoned mine lands and thousands of brownfield sites pollute our water and threaten human health and safety

The list goes on.

Growing Greener Coalition: Tremendous Backlog Of Environmental Infrastructure Needs Demand Much Higher Levels Of Investment By State. PA Environment Digest Blog, 2/5/2020.