From the Coalition on Human Needs (http://www.chn.org): The Senate is expected to vote this week on a tax and investment plan that taxes large profitable corporations, reins in Big Pharma’s price gouging, lowers carbon emissions, and provides billions of dollars … Continued
Posted at https://www.publicnewsservice.org/2022-08-01/energy-policy/public-pressure-prompts-usps-to-boost-ev-purchases/a80099-1 August 1, 2022 – Danielle Smith, Public News Service (PA) Play Audio in Browser Window The U.S. Postal Service is buying nearly 85,000 new vehicles and estimates 40% will be electric. Scott Hochberg, attorney at the Center … Continued
From Clean Water Action (http://www.cleanwateraction.org/): Thanks to your help we were able to unanimously pass in the State Senate SB 522 which addresses a gap that according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health has left 68% of Pennsylvania children under … Continued
From Appalachian Voices (http://www.appvoices.org/): The STREAM Act passed the U.S. House on July 29 with bipartisan support! This legislation will help states and tribes clean up acid mine drainage from abandoned mines by allowing agencies to use some of their money from … Continued
Posted at https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/28/2021-big-oil-has-spent-over-200-million-sabotage-climate-action-analysis Climate Power, the group behind the new analysis, said Democrats’ new climate deal sends “a strong signal” that “deep pockets only go so far.” JAKE JOHNSON July 28, 2022 The oil and gas industry, one of the most … Continued
Posted at https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/28/poison-pills-transformative-funding-climate-groups-grapple-manchin-deal “Is it enough? No,” wrote one campaigner. “Does it have handouts we’ll have to fight against? Yes. But we are on far stronger footing with this bill than without it.” JAKE JOHNSON July 28, 2022 More than … Continued
From Creation Justice Ministries (http://www.creationjustice.org/): There is still time to tell the Biden Administration that we support their efforts to designate the Hudson Canyon as a protected sanctuary. The Hudson Canyon is just 100 miles off the coast of New … Continued
From PennEnvironment (http://www.pennenvironment.org): One of western Pennsylvania’s great state parks — Yellow Creek State Park — is being threatened by a proposal to allow harmful coal mining up to the park’s boundaries. Tell state officials to keep coal mining away … Continued
By MICHAEL BIESECKER and HELEN WIEFFERING LENORAH, Texas (AP) — To the naked eye, the Mako Compressor Station outside the dusty West Texas crossroads of Lenorah appears unremarkable, similar to tens of thousands of oil and gas operations scattered throughout … Continued
From the Endangered Species Coalition (https://www.endangered.org/): Time is running out for Northwest salmon. Endangered Snake River salmon are on the brink of extinction because of four lower Snake River dams. If we don’t act quickly to remove the dams and … Continued