Not Since Just Before the Great Depression Has 1% Controlled Such Wealth—Here’s What That Could Mean

Posted at https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/8/13/1787881/-Not-since-right-before-the-Great-Depression-has-the-1-controlled-this-much-wealth Leslie Salzillo  Monday August 13, 2018 · 10:50 AM EDT Via MarketWatch, a news group considered to be one of the most prominent in today’s financial industry, Karl Paul reports that in the last 20-30 years, the disparity between the rich and more as … Continued

Warming Climate Puts PA Summer Recreation at Risk

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Posted at https://www.publicnewsservice.org/2018-08-15/climate-change-air-quality/warming-climate-puts-pa-summer-recreation-at-risk/a63694-1 August 15, 2018 – Andrea Sears, Public News Service (PA) Play Audio in Browser Window Tick-borne diseases are increasing as climate change increases summer temperatures. (Kaldari[CC0]/Wikimedia Commons) HARRISBURG, Pa. – Climate change already is affecting summers here … Continued

Comment Now to Stop Thousands from Being Kicked Off Medicaid

Posted at https://www.chn.org/2018/08/14/comment-now-stop-thousands-kicked-off-medicaid/#.W3Q6F85KgdU By Lecia Imbery August 14, 2018 If the Trump Administration and some state officials have their way, hundreds of thousands of low-income people could be kicked off Medicaid and left without any health insurance coverage. That’s because several … Continued

Smoke From Western U.S. Wildfires Starting To Show Up In Pennsylvania, East Coast

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Posted at http://paenvironmentdaily.blogspot.com/2018/08/smoke-from-western-us-wildfires.html Posted: 10 Aug 2018 03:18 PM PDT Smoke from the wildfires burning in California and other Western states is beginning to show up in the upper atmosphere over Pennsylvania and other areas of the East Coast, but … Continued

Groups Call for Making Conservation Fund Permanent

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Posted at https://www.publicnewsservice.org/2018-08-10/public-lands-wilderness/groups-call-for-making-conservation-fund-permanent/a63658-1 August 10, 2018 – Andrea Sears, Public News Service (PA) Play Audio in Browser Window Money from the Land and Water Conservation Fund helped create the Cherry Valley National Wildlife Refuge in Monroe County. (National Fish and … Continued