1. Here is a link to the national party's platform on Environmental Justice for the specific national party's position. However, in Pennsylvania, under Tom Wolf there was clearly an interest to greenlight more grants under the DEP for fracking pads and wells. While many Air and Water quality standards are set under the EPA through the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act, the county health department could likely impose larger fines for violations of the CAA or the CWA. I suspect that this is going to be a major issue during the next county executive election due to our home rule charter and the amount of deference that the County Executive has to fine and regulate polluters. Backing up a bit, on a state level Pennsylvania is slated to enter into the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative which would act as a cap and trade to reduce pollution. Unfortunately, Governor Elect - Shapiro has stated that he will review RGGI and its appropriateness. If his administration does consider withdrawing from RGGI, or greatly reduces its impact then I can support a motion at state committee to support remaining in RGGI. As for water quality issues, there is a certain level of preemption from the state government that prevents counties from banning or reducing fracking. One work around to this that I have been supportive of is local municipal ordinances to create zoning setbacks. This was achieved successfully, in part, in East Pittsburgh to prevent the Merrion Oil and Gas well from being developed. When I lived in North Versailles, I ran on banning implementing this model ordinance language, but came up short by 2 votes in 2019. The model ordinance language more or less creates a setback that reduces the ability to frack near residences. For example, this language was adopted by Plum into their SALDO after their original injection well was permitted. Finally on this issue, the Robinson case which was decided by the PA Supreme Court is still being molded, and thus there are still legal questions regarding the extent to which local townships and municipalities are able to 'zone away' fracking. My hope is that with democrats taking back the house that there will be no more corporate welfare to oil and gas companies, but you are right even recently democrats including progressive democrats such as Emily Kinkead and Jessica Benham voted to give $2Billion in subsidies to frack for hydrogen. Green Hydrogen
2. As for the Biden Administration's next step, I should note that while my position only effects state party policy, I suspect that the administration is likely to rely on administrative orders because the control of the house is controlled by the republicans. It is conceivable that a second bipartisan bill could be voted on, but I am doubtful that McCarthy would support this.

Also note, because I just graduated from law school - I am not an attorney and I am not providing legal opinions or advice*

Edit: Grammar