Scarce Funding Raises Pennsylvania’s Interest in Competitive Bidding Alternative

The Trump Administration has announced it intends to reduce EPA funding and cut or eliminate federal funding for Chesapeake Bay restoration. However, EPA head Scott Pruitt pledged in January to enforce the Bay mandates, calling the multi-state effort a model of federal-state cooperation. Reduced federal funding underscores the need for more cost-effective spending, which was the overwhelming consensus of a recent PA Joint Senate Committee Hearing on the state’s Bay strategy. The editorial board from PennLive, the state’s ‘political paper’ based in Harrisburg, wrote on March 10, “Government institutions alone haven’t solved this. Let’s not just accommodate the private sector, let’s invite them to the table.”
Craig Scott, Bion’s communications director, stated, “Republican pollster Frank Luntz said, ‘voters aren’t asking for less government, they’re not asking for a more limited government; whatever government they have, they want it to work.’ It is clear that Pennsylvania’s current clean water strategy needs to incorporate low cost private sector alternatives to reverse both the continuing deterioration of its interior fresh water resources, as well as its spiraling Bay mandate costs.
“Legislative and administration leadership, as well as local stakeholders, recognize that the private-sector can be a powerful tool that can help solve the Commonwealth’s Bay obligations cost-effectively, while also providing long-term solutions to interior water quality problems. Implementing an innovative strategy that provides high-impact environmental and public health solutions, reduces taxpayer cost, and provides jobs and growth in rural communities, meets that voter demand that government ‘work’.”
Bion Environmental Technologies’ patented, next-generation technology provides comprehensive treatment of livestock waste that achieves substantial reductions in nutrients (nitrogen and phosphorus), ammonia, greenhouse and other gases, as well as pathogens in the waste stream. Nutrients and renewable energy can now be recovered in the form of valuable by-products, providing substantially improved resource and operational efficiencies to the producer. For more information, see Bion’s website, www.biontech.com.
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