(WHTM) — A Pennsylvania lawmaker wants to change the name of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.
Republican Senator Gene Yaw is introducing a bill that will change the department’s name to the “Department of Environmental Services.”
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“Rather than being a partner, DEP has become an enforcer and has compromised the open and working relationship it once had with the people it serves,” Yaw said in a statement.
Yaw disagreed with some climate change policies during Tom Wolf’s governorship.