Please take a minute to join faith communities and faith leaders around Pennsylvania to endorse the Clean Water for the Woodlands fund drive at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfNJ6PygKNyvR4Y411VXwnz_lDV5q0enDGFNYMPAgeb-pTvnA/viewform. Many families in towns and rural communities across the shale fields of Pennsylvania where modern … Continued
Posted at http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/12/20/incredible-victory-obama-bans-drilling-parts-arctic-and-atlantic Published on Tuesday, December 20, 2016 by Common Dreams Move comes in response to efforts by climate activists urging president to secure environmental protections before new administration takes power By Nadia Prupis, staff writer Although green groups … Continued
By Michael E. Mann December 16 Michael E. Mann is a professor of atmospheric science and director of the Earth System Science Center at Penn State University. He co-authored, with Washington Post cartoonist Tom Toles, “The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial … Continued
Thursday, December 8, 2016 Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) released the following statement on President-elect Trump’s nomination of Scott Pruitt as the next head of the EPA: “President-elect Trump’s nomination of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt as the … Continued
Environmentalists and people of faith (including the Pennsylvania Council of Churches) are concerned and dismayed at the nomination of OK Attorney General Scott Pruitt to be Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. He has a long history of opposition to … Continued
Posted at http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/12/14/noaa-issues-jaw-dropping-assessment-unprecedented-arctic-warming Published on Wednesday, December 14, 2016 by Common Dreams Latest Arctic Report Card finds that region’s temperatures continue upward climb twice as fast as global temperature increase By Andrea Germanos, staff writer Ice floe with polar bear … Continued
Posted at http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/12/13/epa-finally-concludes-fracking-pollutes-drinking-water Published on Tuesday, December 13, 2016 by Common Dreams “We urge the EPA to take into account its own findings and address the urgent need to protect clean water from fracking’s harms,” says Environment America By Nadia … Continued
We know that this is a busy time of year for you. But would you please take a minute to join faith communities and faith leaders around Pennsylvania to endorse the Clean Water for the Woodlands fund drive? Families in … Continued