PA. ENVTL. DEFENSE FOUND. v. COMMONWEALTH

No. 65 MAP 2020.

279 A.3d 1194 (2022)

PENNSYLVANIA ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION, Appellant v. COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, and Tom Wolf, in His Official Capacity as Governor of Pennsylvania, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided: August 5, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John E. Childe Jr., Esq. , Pennsylvania Environmental Defense Foundation, for Appellant.

James F. Bohan , Joshua Benjamin Ebersole, Esqs. , Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Audrey F. Miner, Esq. , Pennsylvania Department of Conservation & Natural Resources (DCNR), Harrisburg, Gregory George Schwab, Esq. , for Appellee Tom Wolf.

Howard Greeley Hopkirk , Michael John Scarinci , Joshua D. Shapiro, Esqs. , PA Office of Attorney General, Harrisburg, for Appellee Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

BAER, C.J., SAYLOR, TODD, DONOHUE, DOUGHERTY, WECHT, MUNDY, JJ.


OPINION

The Pennsylvania Environmental Defense Foundation ("PEDF") comes before this Court for the third time challenging the use of proceeds from oil and gas leasing on the Commonwealth's forest and park lands as violative of Article I, Section 27 of the Pennsylvania Constitution, also known...

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