From the Clean Air Council (http://www.cleanair.org/): Clean Air Council is excited to share our annual workplace biking challenge with you: Cycle September! Starting September 1, you and hundreds of people across Greater Philadelphia can compete for great prizes by riding … Continued
From PennEnvironment (http://www.pennenvironment.org): Last weekend, State Representative Wendi Thomas became the 100th member of the General Assembly to cosponsor our legislation to transition Pennsylvania to 100% renewable energy by the year 2050 through House Bill 1425 and Senate Bill 630. … Continued
From the Union of Concerned Scientists (http://www.ucsusa.org): The administration is using faulty science to justify rolling back the national clean car standards that safeguard our families, communities, and planet. And now the administration is trying to take away states’ authority … Continued
From the Sierra Club (https://www.sierraclub.org/): Pennsylvanians have a constitutional right to clean air and water and the protection of the Commonwealth’s natural resources. Unfortunately, current law makes it very difficult for the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) to hold polluters … Continued
From the Evangelical Environmental Network (http://www.creationcare.org): For over 20 years the Evangelical Environmental Network (EEN) has defended the Endangered Species Act. The last major threat was back in 1996. EEN’s efforts — including a press conference with a cougar, which … Continued
From PennEnvironment (http://www.pennenvironment.org): We just experienced the hottest June ever recorded.1 As global temperatures rise, heat waves like the one that swept across the U.S. in mid-July have become more common — and each summer, it gets hotter. It even … Continued
Posted at https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/07/30/we-are-climate-emergency-warn-experts-and-aoc-greenland-ice-sheet-faces-possible Published on Tuesday, July 30, 2019 by Common Dreams “If the ice sheet melts entirely, it would raise global sea levels by almost 23 feet.” By Eoin Higgins, staff writer The Greenland ice sheet may melt at … Continued
From the Alaska Wilderness League (http://www.alaskawild.org): A bombshell of an article was published this morning in Politico, reinforcing what we’ve suspected all along: administration officials have disregarded scientific facts at multiple stages in their rush to sell oil and gas lease sales … Continued
Posted at https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/07/23/beginning-new-study-warns-climate-crisis-may-have-been-pivotal-rise-drug-resistant Published on Tuesday, July 23, 2019 by Common Dreams Research argues that deadly Candida auris “may be the first example of a new fungal disease emerging from climate change.” By Jessica Corbett, staff writer Candida auris was first identified in … Continued
From PennEnvironment (http://www.pennenvironment.org): The cleanest form of energy is……the energy you don’t need to create in the first place. That’s why energy efficiency will play such a crucial role in our efforts to tackle climate change and reduce air pollution. … Continued