Posted at https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/06/29/poster-company-us-fracking-has-fallen-chesapeake-energy-files-bankruptcy Published on Monday, June 29, 2020 by Common Dreams “Meanwhile the Trump administration continues to try and bail out this garbage fire industry with our tax dollars.” By Eoin Higgins, staff writer Flares burning off gas at … Continued
From PennFuture (http://www.pennfuture.org): In the coming days, the Pennsylvania House of Representatives could vote on House Bill 2025, a bill that would take away the power of the Department of Environmental Protection to enact a carbon reduction program similar to the … Continued
From the Clean Air Council (http://www.cleanair.org/): After the second warmest January to March since national temperature began being recorded in 1880, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is projecting a 75% chance that 2020 will be recorded as the … Continued
From PennEnvironment (http://www.pennenvironment.org): The administration is poised to strip protections from the Tongass National Forest — our largest intact temperate rainforest.1 This forest is too special to lose. That’s why we’re calling on the U.S. House of Representatives to support the Roadless … Continued
From Interfaith Power and Light (http://interfaithpowerandlight.org): To celebrate the summer solstice, Interfaith Power & Light is highlighting a Certified Cool Congregation that has reduced their carbon footprint by 50% through a solar leasing program offered through IPL state affiliate, Massachusetts … Continued
Posted at https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/06/22/scares-me-says-bill-mckibben-arctic-hits-1004degf-hottest-temperature-record Published on Monday, June 22, 2020 by Common Dreams “100°F about 70 miles north of the Arctic Circle today in Siberia. That’s a first in all of recorded history. We are in a climate emergency.” By Jake … Continued
From PennEnvironment (http://www.pennenvironment.org): As early as this week, the U.S. House of Representatives will be voting on a bill that will help preserve Pennsylvania’s greatest outdoor places as well as our great national parks, wildlife refuges, and more. The Great … Continued
Posted at https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/06/18/now-thats-how-you-hold-bible-pope-francis-calls-fossil-fuel-divestment-serve-planet Published on Thursday, June 18, 2020 by Common Dreams “The Vatican’s call for divestment is a breath of hope in times when faith is more needed than ever,” said 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben. “It is a powerful … Continued
From PennEnvironment (http://www.pennenvironment.org): Scroll down for action. Over the past three years, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has launched a series of regulatory rollbacks to the Clean Water Act — a bedrock environmental law that protects our nation’s waterways.1 Under … Continued
From the Clean Air Council (http://www.cleanair.org/): After the second warmest January to March since national temperature began being recorded in 1880, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is projecting a 75% chance that 2020 will be recorded as the … Continued