From Lancaster Against Pipelines (http://www.wearelancastercounty.org/): Just last week, Williams took the Sisters to federal court seeking permission to deploy US Marshals to prevent this ceremony from taking place. They lost that case, and our local community responded with a resounding … Continued
From Lancaster Against Pipelines (http://www.wearelancastercounty.org/): On Sunday afternoon more than 300 residents stood with Catholic sisters to dedicate an outdoor Prayer Arbor planted directly in the path of a fracked-gas pipeline. Williams corporation intends to seize the Sisters’ land against … Continued
From the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center (http://www.pennbpc.org): There is still a lot of work to be done in Harrisburg before state legislators can say they have a complete, balanced budget. We’ve all been working hard to make sure the … Continued
From the National Council of Churches (http://www.ncccusa.org): The Johnson Amendment is part of the IRS Code that prevents non-profit organizations from endorsing political candidates. Non-profit groups, including churches, can already speak out on important political issues, even lobby Congress to … Continued
From PennFuture (http://www.pennfuture.org): This year marks the 80th anniversary of Pennsylvania’s Clean Streams Law—but its protections and the Commonwealth’s waterways are still at risk. Just days after Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court issued a ruling that said, “the Commonwealth must act affirmatively … Continued
From the Alaska Wilderness League (http://www.alaskawild.org): Caribou in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge face a terrible threat. And Bernadette Demientieff, the Executive Director of the Gwich’in Nation, has left Alaska to visit Washington, DC, to advocate on behalf of the … Continued
Posted at https://www.thirdandstate.org/2017/july/new-estimates-loss-federal-funding-pennsylvania-senate-health-care-bill Jul 08, 2017 10:37 am | Marc Stier The Manatt Health Group and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation have released a new study of the impact of the Senate health care bill, the Better Care Reconciliation Act … Continued
From Families Against Mandatory Minimums (http://famm.org/): Several months ago, we raised the alarm about Kate’s Law, a new sentencing bill that would fill federal prisons to bursting and cost taxpayers billions each year. Kate’s Law would require mandatory minimum five-year … Continued
From Conservation Voters of PA (http://www.conservationpa.org): EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has announced his plan to roll back important protections for our water. In 2015, the Obama administration finalized updates to the Clean Water Rule and enacted commonsense protections for streams … Continued
From the Clean Air Council (http://www.cleanair.org/): We asked Clean Air Council supporters to stand against the Trump Administration’s “regulatory reform” agenda and our members took notice, sending thousands of comments to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Now some senators are … Continued