The DEP of PA, the Department of Environmental Protection, or as I prefer to call it the "Don't Expect Protection" Department, has had its staff cut, its budget cut and has lost any authority and credibility to protect the environment and do its job to enforce the weak environmental regulations. All inspections by DEP agents have to first go to the governor's office in Harrisburg, before issuing a citation for a violation. Maybe Governor Wolf will change that, but I am not holding my breath on that since he accepted $1.5 million in campaign contributions from the gas drilling industry. The DCNR or Department of Conservation and Natural Resources which overseas the state owned parks, forests and game lands has had it's budget cut so low that it is dependent on revenue from the gas leasing to fulfill its mission. That is why I call them the "Department of Consumable Natural Resources." And Governor Wolf expects a 5% extraction tax, tighter enforcement and tough environmental laws from an anti-tax, anti-regulatory, anti-government Republican Tea Party mindset dominated legislature. Good luck with that! It is "unfortunate" that Governor Wolf "wants to have his cake and eat it too." It is "unfortunate" that he has come to the opposite conclusion on fracking that Governor Cuomo has taken in New York State. Fracking is too dangerous, too expensive and totally unnecessary for our energy needs. Ban fracking now like they did in New York.

Er, time for the headline-writer to open the dictionary and note the difference between "flaunt" and "flout."