Glorious Day -- PA Supreme Court decision on Act 13

I am too excited to study this opinion closely.  But I am celebrating that the PA Supreme Court finally gave so much thought to Environmental Rights.  Kudos to the attorneys involved.

Here is a quote from the opinion that shows why I am excited:

As trustee, the Commonwealth has a duty to refrain from permitting or encouraging the 

degradation, diminution, or depletion of public natural resources, whether such 

degradation, diminution, or depletion would occur through direct state action or 

indirectly, e.g., because of the state’s failure to restrain the actions of private parties. In 

this sense, the third clause of the Environmental Rights Amendment is complete  

because it establishes broad but concrete substantive parameters within which the 

Commonwealth may act. Compare PA. CONST. art. I, § 27 with, e.g., PA. CONST. art. I, § 

28. This Court perceives no impediment to citizen beneficiaries enforcing the 

constitutional prohibition in accordance with established principles of judicial review. 

Almost afraid to read the rest of the opinion:

http://www.post-gazette.com/attachment/2013/12/19/PennsylvaniaSupremeCourtMarcellus-pdf.pdf