Press Conference No Gas Plant
Channel: Alicia Dorsey
Date: 2017-12-11

Residents of Philadelphia have been demanding that Septa abide the Pa. Constitution.  Tammy Murphy, Medical Outreach Coordinator at Philadelphia Physicians for Social Responsibility explained the new obligations created for Septa under the recent PA Environmental Rights Amendment. Tammy stated that Septa is obligated to respect people’s right to clean air, and to "conserve and maintain" PA's "public natural resources"  for the "benefit of all people," including future generations. She asserted that building this natural gas power plant--especially without first conducting a full health impact study and a comprehensive analysis of alternatives--would violate the rights enshrined in the PA Constitution.