It’s no exaggeration to say that this legislation does more to endanger public health and encourage pollution than any other bill that has passed Congress in our nation’s history, writes Molly Parzen.
In an era of divided government, it’s more important than ever that Pennsylvanians stand up and make their voices heard.
Democrats in Harrisburg recently introduced a landmark voting rights bill, the Voting Rights Protection Act, which is designed to encourage public participation in our elections by reducing barriers that keep people from casting their ballots.
In 2023 alone, more than 158,000 Pennsylvania families benefited from these programs, saving more than $267 million on clean energy investments that provide long-term savings.
As energy demands increase in the commonwealth, the governor has called on PJM to clear a huge backlog of clean energy projects.
Money from these programs is currently being held hostage by Trump to benefit the billionaire oil and gas CEOs who funded his campaign.
Our elected leaders in Harrisburg must ensure Pennsylvania’s economy remains on the path to a clean energy transition that creates new good-paying jobs and pumps billions of dollars of investment into communities across our commonwealth.
But this momentum needs to power us into a 2025 that will likely be filled with many challenges.
Governor Shapiro and our state legislature can – and must – act as a bulwark against any Trump-era rollbacks by strengthening enforcement of our existing environmental laws even as they work to enact new policies that make our state a leader in environmental protection.
“I would like to know if the Bucks County Intermediate Unit, the other school districts in Pennsylvania and in Bucks County, might be interested in starting a class action lawsuit against the state for the calculable amount of money that we are losing as a school district ‘cause it’s going to blow up everybody’s budget,” Centennial School District Board Member Michael Hartline.
“This is about the president of the United States and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections,” said Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker.
“Discarding thousands of ballots every election is not a reasonable trade-off in view of the date requirement’s extremely limited and unlikely capacity to detect and deter fraud,” the appeals court panel wrote.
The city is resisting an occupied force in creative, raucous, and even joyful ways. The rest of the nation should take note.
Partisan gerrymandering is an anathema to our democracy.
