Smoke gets in your eyes
Smoke gets in your eyes. And your hair. And your clothes. And your lungs. Last week, Pennsylvania was placed under statewide Code Red and then Code Purple (“very unhealthy”) air-quality alerts as smoke from enormous wildfires in Canada and Minnesota drifted south and settled over a wide swath of the eastern United States. It is […]
Are data centers right for your community?
Last weekend, Sandy Field, chair of the Susquehanna Valley Chapter of the Climate Reality Project, spoke about the realities surrounding data centers and provided key points for municipalities considering ordinances to protect themselves. Her presentation was part of the Second Saturday Speakers Series sponsored by the Union County Democratic Committee. The room was packed with […]
Clean air?
On February 12, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) repealed the 2009 Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Endangerment Finding. This finding established that greenhouse gases pose a danger to human health and welfare. It provided the legal basis for the EPA to regulate climate-warming pollution under the Clean Air Act. Repealing it will sharply limit federal authority […]
Save the Endangered Species Act
Last week, while many people celebrated planet Earth’s natural beauty and resources on Earth Day, the Trump Administration proposed a rule change that would profoundly weaken the Endangered Species Act (ESA), the most important law in our country protecting threatened plants and animals. The proposal by the U.S. Departments of the Interior and Commerce would […]