Earlier this month, the Pennsylvania legislature, as part of a budget deal negotiated with Governor Josh Shapiro, voted to remove the state from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). The RGGI program is the single most effective tool for cleaning up the air Pennsylvania families breathe while also tackling global warming and improving energy affordability. Losing it is a blow to families across the state.
Senior National Field Director Patrice Tomcik (pictured) is widely quoted condemning Governor Shapiro for “sacrificing progress on climate and air pollution based on politics that prioritizes industry over our children’s health” in Inside Climate News, E&E News, and PA Environment Digest articles. The Inside Climate News piece also ran in News From the States, Pennsylvania Capital-Star, and Philly Voice.
Tell the Trump Administration: Don't Bail Out Coal. Protect Our Children's Health!
In other news
- Moms Director and Co-Founder Dominique Browning explains in Context that without the Endangerment Finding, the legal foundation of EPA’s ability to cut greenhouse gas pollution, annual climate emissions may quadruple.
- In a Penn Live op-ed, Ohio River Valley Field Organizer Rachel Meyer pleads with elected officials to stop subsidizing the plastics and petrochemical industry, which creates dangerous pollution that jeopardizes the safety of workers and health of surrounding communities.
- Moms member Shamieka Preston shares her fears around the W.R. Grace “advanced recycling” plastics burning facility—which will not actually recycle anything—slated for her community and details the company’s sordid history in a Baltimore Sun op-ed.
- The Arizona Daily Star runs an op-ed by Fabiola Bedoya urging Arizona’s leaders in Congress to protect clean energy investments that safeguard children and future generations from “scorching heat and rising energy bills.
Tell the Trump Administration: Don't Bail Out Coal. Protect Our Children's Health!