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- 07/18/08 - North Whitehall. PA Wal-Mart Uses Legal Threat to Intimidate Supervisors
- 07/16/08 - Appalachian Residents Have Found the Antidote to Coal
- 07/09/08 - Betting On a Bonanza
- 06/30/08 - States Taking Initiative on Environmental & Climate Crisis while Feds Do Little or Nothing
- 06/27/08 - Buckminster Fuller Institute Awards Appalachia Recovery Plan
- 06/24/08 - Going Green: New Report Shows Thousands of Potential Jobs Created as Focus Shifts to Environment
- 06/24/08 - Great Lakes Deal Ready
- 06/23/08 - PhillyCarShare - Offering A Greener Way Around The City
- 06/18/08 - SuperCenter Idea Unnerves Area Business
- 06/18/08 - Pennsylvania Warns Gas Industry to Respect Natural Treasures
- 06/14/08 - Pennsylvania Township Challenges Corporate Personhood as it Bans Corporations from Dumping Sludge & Mining Wastes
- 06/11/08 - Move Over MoveOn: Grassroots Netroots Alliance (GNA) Launches New Progressive Campaign to 'Press the Politicians'
- 06/11/08 - State Court to Rule on Ban of Human Waste as Fertilizer
- 06/08/08 - Drilling Carries a Hefty Environmental Price
- 06/06/08 - Rodale Institute Begins its Own Organic Vs GE Field Trials
- 06/05/08 - North Whitehall Residents Battling Proposed Wal-Mart
- 05/28/08 - Big Win over Monsanto's Bovine Growth Hormone in Missouri
- 05/27/08 - Black Gold Rush: Boom and Bust and Boom Again in Pennsylvania
- 05/22/08 - Largest Privatization Deal in U.S. History Proposed for Pennsylvania Turnpike
- 05/15/08 - Center for American Progress: What Are You Paying for the War?
- 05/12/08 - Rolling In The Black, For Now
- 05/09/08 - Zoning Appeal Puts Wal-Mart on Hold
- 05/09/08 - North Whitehall Tables Plans for Wal-Mart Subdivision
- 05/05/08 - Plan Calls for Storing CO2 Beneath Pa.'s Public Forests
- 05/05/08 - Nuclear Settlement Money Little Solace for Survivors in Armstrong County
- 05/02/08 - L.A. 'Loses' to Pittsburgh in One Air-Pollution Measure.
- 04/30/08 - Lake Erie Undergoing 'Huge' Ecological Changes
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Help Pennsylvania's Farmers Transition to Organic!
Pennsylvania House Bill No. 2347 will provide assistance to farmers seeking to transition to organic agriculture.
Learn more and take action here.
Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture Reverses Course; Dairies Allowed to Continue Labeling Milk "rBGH Free"
Consumers were handed a victory on January 17th when the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture reversed course and decided to allow dairies to continue to use the "rBGH Free" label on milk.
Pennsylvania's Secretary of Agriculture, Dennis Wolff, had tried to ban labels that would let consumers know whether the cows used to produce their milk were injected with genetically engineered bovine growth hormone (Monsanto's Posilac, also known as rBGH).
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Current Pennsylvania Milk Labeling Rule
Last Updated: 2/26/08
Buy Fresh and Local
Did you know that on average the food you consume travels 1,500 miles before reaching your table? [1] The Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture and Pennsylvania Buy Fresh Buy Local want to help you change that by providing a directory of Pennsylvania family farms, farmers' markets Community Supported Agriculture farms (CSA's), u-pick farms, restaurants, grocers, caterers and bakers, bed and breakfasts, and other businesses that sell locally grown farm products.
When you buy from these businesses you aren't just supporting local economy and the environment, you are also getting fresher, better tasting food.
1http://www.pasafarming.org/
buylocal/index.htm
Everybody VOTE!
Everybody VOTE is a non-partisan voter registration and mobilization campaign created to increase voter participation in Pennsylvania and dedicated to expanding the role of the state's 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations in voting and elections.
Everybody VOTE provides training, materials and other resources designed to help nonprofits integrate voter registration, voter education, and voter mobilization work into their ongoing activities.
Register to Vote
GENERAL ELECTION
Deadline to Register:
Oct. 6, 2008
Election Day:
Nov. 4, 2008
1. Click here to get a voter registration form.
2. Complete the form. Don't forget to SIGN your registration form!
3. Return the form to your local voter registration office. Click here to find your local office.
Take Action. Support Green Jobs!
The Green Jobs Act of 2007 authorized $125 million per year to create an Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Worker Training Program as an amendment to the Workforce Investment Act (WIA). The Green Jobs Act (GJA) is an initial pilot program to identify needed skills, develop training programs, and train workers for jobs in a range of industries - including energy efficient building, construction and retrofits, renewable electric power, energy efficient vehicles, biofuels, and manufacturing that produces sustainable products and uses sustainable processes and materials. It targets a broad range of populations for eligibility, but has a special focus on creating "green pathways out of poverty."
Congress has not yet appropriated money for the Green Jobs Act. Please contact your Senator today and urge them to fund the Green Jobs Act of 2007!
Read more at Green for All's web site.
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