Posted at https://www.chn.org/2018/08/14/comment-now-stop-thousands-kicked-off-medicaid/#.W3Q6F85KgdU By Lecia Imbery August 14, 2018 If the Trump Administration and some state officials have their way, hundreds of thousands of low-income people could be kicked off Medicaid and left without any health insurance coverage. That’s because several … Continued
From the Union of Concerned Scientists (http://www.ucsusa.org): Of the 16 federal agencies we surveyed this year, scientists working for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reported the biggest challenges. They experience the highest levels of political interference in their scientific work … Continued
Posted at http://paenvironmentdaily.blogspot.com/2018/08/smoke-from-western-us-wildfires.html Posted: 10 Aug 2018 03:18 PM PDT Smoke from the wildfires burning in California and other Western states is beginning to show up in the upper atmosphere over Pennsylvania and other areas of the East Coast, but … Continued
From the Center for American Progress (http://www.americanprogress.org): The current administration’s economic agenda has been relentlessly aimed at helping big corporations and the wealthy at the expense of the rest of us—and it’s succeeding wildly. New numbers show that for Americans, … Continued
From PennEnvironment (http://www.pennenvironment.org): We stopped using lead-based paint in 1978. We started phasing out leaded gasoline even earlier than that. We knew about the severe developmental harm it can cause in growing children — and the kidney damage and more … Continued
Posted at https://www.publicnewsservice.org/2018-08-10/public-lands-wilderness/groups-call-for-making-conservation-fund-permanent/a63658-1 August 10, 2018 – Andrea Sears, Public News Service (PA) Play Audio in Browser Window Money from the Land and Water Conservation Fund helped create the Cherry Valley National Wildlife Refuge in Monroe County. (National Fish and … Continued
From Moms Rising (https://www.momsrising.org/): Every once in a while something uplifting and amazing happens in Washington, D.C.— and when that special something happens, it’s likely because moms, dads, and concerned people like YOU have spoken out! That’s what’s currently happening … Continued
From the Coalition on Human Needs (http://www.chn.org): The Senate is about to debate two spending bills together: one covers the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education; the other, Pentagon spending. Labor-HHS-Ed does not get a fair share … Continued
From the Economic Policy Institute (http://www.epi.org/): August 7 marked Black Women’s Equal Pay Day, a day that symbolizes how long into 2018 an African American woman would have to work in order to be paid the same wages her white … Continued
From the Interfaith Immigration Coalition (http://www.interfaithimmigration.org): In an urgent effort to stop the administration from cutting refugee resettlement to a drastic new low, we are launching our brand new #Welcome75k Toolkit and a religious leader sign-on letter. Please join us … Continued