Pennsylvania must redirect its economic development tools away from fossil fuel industries toward clean energy to build a stable economy that supports and protects the state’s most vulnerable communities, an environmental advocacy group said in a report released Thursday.
The paper by PennFuture recommends reforms for Pennsylvania’s primary state government economic development agency, the Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED), to prioritize projects that promote the state’s carbon-reduction goals and encompass impacts on the environment and community health in the ways it measures success.
“If we want to change how our economy is structured, or what the foundation of it is, or even reshape the future of it, we’ve really got to look at agencies specifically like the DCED, because that’s where government starts to get…
