Three years after noticing discoloration and odors in their wells, residents in New Freeport are still fighting for clean water.
“This was a terrible investment of taxpayer money,” one analyst said.
Pediatric asthma ER visits dropped 40 percent after a coal processing plant near Pittsburgh closed down, researchers found.
“Our mapping and data work consistently reveal that oil and gas waste—including radioactive and toxic materials—is being transported without proper hazard classification or oversight,” said Shannon Smith, the executive director at Pennsylvania-based FracTracker.
Grove City residents are concerned that the landfill will accept oil and gas waste and further pollute nearby waterways.
Administered largely by states, LIHEAP distributes more than $4 billion a year to 6.2 million low-income households nationwide to help with heating and cooling costs.
The documentary “Single-Use Planet” follows the “river of money” underpinning the plastics industry in the United States.
Penn State scientists found microplastics dating back to the 1950s buried in the sediments of a river, two creeks and a lake.
“It’s not a climate plan, it’s not an energy plan, it’s a plan to keep the fossil fuel industry happy,” said Food & Water Watch PA State Director Megan McDonough.
“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.”
Lawyers in both cases say the DOJ is weaponizing the government and its resources against a group of people it opposes politically.
