The Allegheny County Chapter of the Izaak Walton League of America will be hosting a very special evening with three leading experts on the causes and impacts of climate change. Our speakers will then join the audience for an interactive discussion...
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For 2019, we will attempt to slay the dragon of single-use plastic (SUP) ... in our own homes, where we shop, where we dine, and where we work. We kick things off on Sunday, January 20 with an extravaganza (!) of facts, eco-products, action groups, and the documentary "Bag It!"
On the heels of the shale gas rush that’s swept the U.S. for the past decade, another wave of fossil fuel-based projects is coming — a plastic and petrochemical manufacturing rush that environmentalists warn could make smog worse in communities already breathing air pollution from fracking, sicken workers, and expand the plastic trash gyres in the world’s oceans...
Another opportunity has surfaced for actively resisting the petrochemical expansion in SWPA - this time in Franklin Park Borough. There's an event you can attend on Wednesday of this week.
The good people at Protect Elizabeth Township have put out a request for community support to resist new natural gas development. There is a hearing on Thursday, December 20, at 5pm. Learn all about it at the Protect Elizabeth Township website here. Their website has questions to ask, phone numbers to call (for all the … Continue reading Action: Protect Elizabeth Township from Natural Gas Development
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