March for Intersectional Climate Justice — Sunshine Pittsburgh, et al. 9/24/21

September 22, 2021

Join Sunrise Pittsburgh, Socialist Alternative, Green New Deal for Pittsburgh, Ohio Valley Environmental Resistance, the Izaak Walton League of Allegheny County, and more! >> Millions are taking to the streets across the globe for intersectional climate justice on September 24th! When and Where: Friday, September 24th from 12-3 pm starting at Schenley Plaza and marching [...]

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“Hard Road of Hope” Characterizes Coal & Gas Extraction in West Virginia

September 21, 2021

A region scarred by coal production now faces fracking threats From an Article by Maximillian Alvarez, TRNN, September 7, 2021 The Real News Network (TRNN) Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez talks with filmmaker Eleanor Goldfield about her documentary “Hard Road of Hope” and the destruction coal and gas companies have wreaked on West Virginia. In her documentary [...]

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Q/A on Ethylene Oxide Air Emissions in the Kanawha Valley, WV

September 20, 2021

Learn More about Your Exposure to Toxic & Dangerous Chemicals: EPA Virtual Public Hearing on Ethylene Oxide Emissions This Thursday To: Concerned Citizens Locally & Nationally, September 20, 2021 Tune in this Thursday, September 23, from 6 to 8 p.m. when the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the WV Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) [...]

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WEBINAR From MARCH FOR SCIENCE on Upcoming COP26 Meeting in Glasgow, Scotland

September 19, 2021

What You Need To Know About Congress of the Parties # 26 (COP26) Message to Our Friends and Concerned Citizens, This November, the United Nations will convene for its annual climate change conference in Glasgow. Known as COP26, the conference will provide world leaders the opportunity to revise their national climate goals under the Paris [...]

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Real-Time GHG Emissions Monitoring from Space Gives Important Data

September 18, 2021

Data project backed by Al Gore aims for real-time emissions monitoring From an Article by Ross Kerber, Reuters News Service, September 16, 2021 BOSTON — A technology and academic coalition backed by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore this week unveiled data showing fossil fuel producers’ previously unrecorded greenhouse gas emissions, and growing pollution from [...]

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U.S. Climate Change Plans Are “Insufficient” to Meet United Nations Goals

September 17, 2021

Near-Total Global Failure to Meet 1.5°C Climate Change Targets, Analysis Shows From an Article by Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams, September 15, 2021 A new analysis reveals a near total global failure of governments to have climate action and targets on track for limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Released Wednesday by [...]

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Will You HELP! Build New & “Build Back Better” ~ Contact Your Senators Now!

September 16, 2021

Senator Manchin and Senator Capito Need to Hear YOUR CLIMATE CONCERNS >> Greetings from Sandra Fallon, Morgantown, hope this message finds you doing well ~~~ I’m writing to ask for your assistance related to current efforts going on in West Virginia to help get strong climate provisions included in the $3.5T reconciliation budget (President Biden’s [...]

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Persistent PFAS Chemicals are Overdue for Strict Limitations Locally & Globally

September 15, 2021

Global (and local) action on harmful PFAS chemicals is long overdue From an Article by Kristina Marusic, Environmental Health News, September 15, 2021 The scientific community has known for decades that a group of widely-used chemicals is causing health harms across the globe, but effective policies aimed at curbing those impacts lag far behind the [...]

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Dusting Farm Fields with Basalt Dust Now Under Study to Capture CO2

September 14, 2021

Adding Silica Dust to Soil Can Help Get Carbon into the Ground From an Article by Susan Cosier, Yale Environment 360, September 2, 2021 PHOTO — Basalt is spread on the Leverhulme Centre for Climate Change Mitigation’s research cornfields in Illinois. Researchers are finding that when pulverized rock is applied to agricultural fields, the soil [...]

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Chevron to Explore Carbon Capture, Utilization & Storage (CCUS) Business

September 13, 2021

The Largest Fossil Energy Companies Have Funds to Evaluate CCUS Press Release from Chevron Corporation, San Ramon, California, September 13, 2021 SAN RAMON & HOUSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sep. 13, 2021– Chevron U.S.A. Inc., through its Chevron New Energies division, and a subsidiary of Enterprise Products Partners L.P. announced a framework to study and evaluate opportunities for carbon [...]

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