From the Alaska Wilderness League (http://www.alaskawild.org): Check out Tuesday’s article in the Washington Post, which highlights the administration’s attempt to jumpstart industrial-scale old-growth logging in the last largely intact temperate rainforest in America, the Tongass National Forest in Southeast Alaska. … Continued
From Fair Districts PA (http://www.fairdistrictspa.com): We need your help on November 5. Since November 2017, FDPA Polling Place Outreach volunteers have talked to over 60,000 voters, asking them to sign our petition supporting an independent redistricting commission. We’re planning to … Continued
In a key action, the 2019 ELCA Churchwide Assembly voted to approve a memorial that declares the ELCA a sanctuary church. The ELCA is the first North American denomination to declare itself a sanctuary church body. As a sanctuary church … Continued
Pennsylvania Capital-Star More than 1.5 million Pennsylvanians experience hunger. Roughly two out of seven of those people are children, according to Feeding America, a national network of food banks. … But while food banks are a crucial part of Pennsylvania’s … Continued
From the National Immigration Law Center (http://www.nilc.org): Earlier this month we filed a lawsuit challenging the administration’s expansion of the “public charge” regulation, an unlawful, racially-motivated wealth test on immigrant families. We filed the lawsuit with our co-counsel Asian Americans … Continued
From the Clean Air Council (http://www.cleanair.org/): The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, led by former coal lobbyist Andrew Wheeler, just proposed the complete elimination of methane controls in the 2016 New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for oil and gas facilities. Methane … Continued
Posted at https://www.clasp.org/press-room/press-releases/trump-administration-s-shameful-flores-rule-endangers-children Washington, D.C., August 21, 2019—Today the Administration announced a final rule that would weaken protections for migrant children and make it easier to imprison them and their families for longer periods of time. More than two decades … Continued
Posted at https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/08/29/despite-relentless-assault-corporate-america-gallup-poll-shows-support-unions-near Published on Thursday, August 29, 2019 by Common Dreams “The labor movement has a powerful wind at its back. And we will carry this momentum into new organizing campaigns and our work in the 2020 elections.” By … Continued
Posted at https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/08/29/leaked-un-draft-report-warns-rising-warming-oceans-poised-unleash-misery-worldwide Published on Thursday, August 29, 2019 by Common Dreams The assessment details anticipated declines in fish stocks as well as increases in damage by superstorms and displacement due to rising seas By Jessica Corbett, staff writer A … Continued
Ed Perry, Op-Ed, Scranton Times Tribune In 2014, President Obama proposed standards requiring cars and pickup trucks to get a fleetwide average of 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025. His plan would not only reduce carbon pollution but save consumers … Continued