Posted at https://www.publicnewsservice.org/2018-05-16/public-lands-wilderness/pa-national-parks-need-repair/a62542-1 May 16, 2018 – Andrea Sears, Public News Service (PA) Play Audio in Browser Window Gettysburg National Military Park needs more than $50 million worth of repairs. (Pixabay) HARRISBURG, Pa. – Community groups are calling on Congress … Continued
Everyone deserves access to safe, affordable, and reliable clean water, and water infrastructure is vital to our nation’s well-being. But decades of underfunding and poor management have pushed America to the brink of an infrastructure and human health crisis. As … Continued
Oil, gas, and coal companies are flooding our elections with dirty money so they can drown out our voices and pollute our climate. Our government should be working for us, not Exxon and the Koch Brothers. We need candidates who … Continued
From the Alaska Wilderness League (http://www.alaskawild.org): Of course they chose this day to take their next step towards leasing the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil development: the anniversary of Deepwater Horizon, the largest environmental disaster in American history with 210 … Continued
Posted at http://www.publicnewsservice.org/2018-04-25/environment/planting-ten-million-trees-for-clean-water/a62303-1 April 25, 2018 – Andrea Sears, Public News Service (PA) Play Audio in Browser Window State and federal officials and local high school students joined Chesapeake Bay Foundation president Will Baker in planting the first tree. (B.J. … Continued
Posted at http://www.publicnewsservice.org/2018-03-16/environment/fracking-report-finds-unacceptable-risks/a61838-1 March 16, 2018 – Andrea Sears, Public News Service (PA) Play Audio in Browser Window The compendium of research papers and investigative reports says regulations cannot make fracking safe. (anita_starzycka/Pixabay) HARRISBURG, Pa. – The fifth Fracking Health … Continued
From Pennsylvania Interfaith Power and Light (http://www.paipl.org): Water flows from high in the mountains. Water runs deep in the Earth. Miraculously, water comes to us, and sustains all life. —Thich Nhat Hanh Springtime is a watery time – whether spring … Continued
This is your chance to keep fracking out of the Delaware — forever. Act now at https://www.addup.org/campaigns/no-fracking-activities-in-the-delaware-river-basin. The Delaware River Basin covers 13,000 sq. miles of land in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and New York and provides drinking water to … Continued
Posted at https://www.chn.org/2018/03/19/left-behind-hurricane-maria-puerto-ricos-children/#.WrAE88PwYdU By David Elliot March 19, 2018 Even before Hurricane Maria battered Puerto Rico with historic, sustained, 155-mile-per-hour winds, the U.S. island was facing an economic catastrophe of unprecedented magnitude. For more than a decade, following a disastrous, U.S.-enforced … Continued