Pennsylvania Community Groups Urge Officials to Restrict Data Center Development
Tech companies have proposed building more than 20 of the power-hungry complexes around the state. Some advocates are seeking to control their growth through zoning.
Tech companies have proposed building more than 20 of the power-hungry complexes around the state. Some advocates are seeking to control their growth through zoning.
The Greene County towns are believed to be the first in the state to use the emergency declaration in relation to drinking-water contamination.
The case is the first citizen suit to successfully settle over “nurdles” in an inland waterway. State regulators weighed in to help.
Environmentalists say that allowing the industry to drill in Pennsylvania’s part of the watershed would risk contaminating drinking water for some 15 million people with toxic chemicals.
Surface sources are under pressure from industry demand and climate-change volatility.
A new report assesses the governor’s first two years, concluding that a few positive steps are outweighed by larger inaction.
The DRBC says the current plan to boost downstream flows may not be enough to repel a “salt front” in the tidal Delaware River.
“Big rallies like this give confidence to people who have been sitting on the sidelines but are ready to speak up,” Democratic U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy said in an interview with The Associated Press.
“If you want to run a prosecutor’s office that’s really going to keep people safe, you need to be proactive and you need to be out there in the community,” said Khan.
Partisan politics takes a back seat as a community unites to protect its home from a solid waste recycling center.
Democratic candidate for sheriff Danny Ceisler said if elected he vows to “end this deportation partnership once and for all.”
“Donald Trump and his enablers have hurt working Americans, terrorized our immigrant communities, and overreached their constitutional authority,” said Indivisible Bucks County’s Laura Rose. “We must all stand up to this betrayal of American values and ensure the rights of all are upheld.”