From UUPLAN (http://www.uuplan.com/): Take a minute from your busy day and call Governor Wolf’s office (717-787-2500). Ask him to PLEASE VETO HB 1100. The Pennsylvania Senate passed House Bill 1100 yesterday. This bill provides tax subsidies for a petrochemical plant … Continued
From Families Against Mandatory Minimums (http://famm.org/): Last month, the state House of Representatives considered several mandatory minimum and consecutive sentencing bills. Ultimately, only one bill (HB 726) was voted on and passed by the House. HB 726 requires stacking sentences … Continued
Posted at https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/01/14/adding-five-six-hiroshima-bombs-heat-each-second-study-shows-oceans-warming-record Published on Tuesday, January 14, 2020 by Common Dreams “If you want to understand global warming, you have to measure ocean warming.” By Eoin Higgins, staff writer A gas platform for flaring of gas at offshore during … Continued
Posted at https://www.publicnewsservice.org/2020-01-13/environment/allegheny-county-residents-demand-action-on-air-pollution/a68836-1 January 13, 2020 – Andrea Sears, Public News Service (PA) Play Audio in Browser Window In 1975, 14 excess deaths were attributed to pollution during a weather inversion in Allegheny County. (VanderWolf Images/Adobe Stock) PITTSBURGH — Allegheny … Continued
From Lutheran Advocacy Ministry in PA (https://www.lutheranadvocacypa.org/): On January 31, 2020, the administration announced the expansion of the January 2017 travel ban to include more countries in Africa and Asia. Under the new policy, citizens from Nigeria, Eritrea, Myanmar and Kyrgyzstan … Continued
From the Women’s Law Project (http://www.womenslawproject.org/): Today (February 6) is the 27th anniversary of passage of the federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA). Many people erroneously believe the FMLA means paid leave, but it does not. The FMLA guarantees … Continued
From PennEnvironment (http://www.pennenvironment.org): The Pennsylvania House of Representatives is expected to take up a proposal in the near future to roll back crucial health and environmental protections from gas and oil drilling that have been on the books for nearly … Continued
https://action.momsrising.org/sign/BizMustAct_GunSafetyFrom Moms Rising (https://www.momsrising.org/): Following the tragic hate-motivated mass shooting last August in El Paso, Texas, [1] moms and family members across the country cried out for Walmart to act — to exert its leadership for safer communities with fewer … Continued
Posted at https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/01/09/survey-shows-richest-1-not-necessarily-happier-all-money-has-convinced-them-american Published on Thursday, January 09, 2020 by Common Dreams The number of rich respondents who reported dissatisfaction with their lives was “statistically indistinguishable from zero,” while nearly 40% of low-income people said they struggle to pay their … Continued
Posted at https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/8/1910219/-Study-shows-that-new-voting-machines-to-be-widely-used-in-2020-are-vulnerable-to-hacking Meteor Blades Daily Kos Staff Wednesday January 08, 2020 · 3:30 PM EST A ballot-marking device. A study by a seven-member team at the University of Michigan has concluded that a new voting machine that will be used for the first … Continued