The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says those exposed to PFAS have a higher risk for high cholesterol, kidney cancer, testicular cancer, and damage to the immune system.
Molly Parzen, Executive Director of Conservation Voters of Pennsylvania, looks back at the conservation movement’s many victories in 2022.
What voters want isn’t that surprising: a plan to fight climate change while creating jobs, help to mitigate flooding and sprawl, and investments to preserve open space and protect the water we drink and the air we breathe.
Conservation Voters of Pennsylvania is calling on County Commissioners to include a commitment to preserving at least 25 percent of Bucks County land in its new comprehensive plan.
Conservation Voters of Pennsylvania stands with communities fighting privatization of essential services, like water and sewage utilities.
It’s time to tell Republican Brian Fitzpatrick to actually put the communities and constituents he represents ahead of partisan politics.
Governor Wolf and the legislature must quickly pass a bill that approves Growing Greener funding so Pennsylvanians can get to work building a greener future for all of us.
Molly Parzen’s new monthly column will focus on the intersection of environmental policy and local, state and national politics and highlight how key environmental issues play out in Bucks County and across Southeastern Pennsylvania.
It started well before the pandemic and continues today. A key reason is experiences of racism within the larger school district that affect Black teachers across the system, but manifest differently depending on their schools’ locations.
The U.S. Department of Energy is dangling $750 million for the buildout of a hydrogen hub around Philadelphia. But the looming Trump presidency and strong economic headwinds endanger its prospects.
Lake Angela was moved by her own experiences with schizophrenia and the stories of the treatment patients in her dance therapy groups faced at the psychiatric institution.
The move to erase attention to anti-bias and culture in schools is grounded in denial that concerns about systemic racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, etc., are real.
The Coalition to Shelter & Support the Homeless provides the county’s unhoused individuals with more than 1,000 bed nights each year.