LWV DelCo Environmental Clearinghouse
Delaware County Environmental Clearinghouse
Organizations and individuals from across Pennsylvania are invited to sign a letter to Governor Shapiro urging his participation in a statewide virtual town hall to share concerns about the fast proliferation of AI Data Centers across PA. The Better Path Coalition and No False Climate Solutions PA – coalitions that the Delaware Riverkeeper Network is a part of – are organizing the event.
Monroe Interstate Pipeline Company will again hold office hours at the Aston Township building on March 3 following a 378,000-gallon leak at its Chelsea Tank Farm in December.
The next office hours session is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 3 at the Aston facility at 3264 Concord Road.
The Trump Administration has virtually stopped enforcing the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act or the Superfund law, according to an independenct analysis of Envirnmental Protection Agency enforcement actions in the first full year of the Trump Administration.
The Trump administration moved today to overturn a key legal foundation of the federal government’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases. In a press conference at the White House, President Donald Trump hailed the move as “the single largest deregulatory action in American history.”
The Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission wants to hear residents’ thoughts on how trucks, trains, and other freight activities affect transportation, businesses, and daily life in Greater Philadelphia. The deadline is Feb. 13.
The sponsor of the Stop Trashing Our Air Act tabled the bill after it became clear Thursday that it would not get enough votes to pass in Philadelphia City Council or to withstand a veto by Mayor Cherelle L. Parker who opposes the measure. The legislation would have banned the city from continuing to send trash to the Reworld incinerator in Chester.
The Delaware County Office of Sustainability has just launched its Sustainable Communities Hub, a website to provide resources for the environmental advisory councils, shade tree commissions and other environmental committees of each Delco community or to inspire those communities that do not have such a committee to start one.
The Interior Department announced Monday it is pausing leases for all five large-scale offshore wind projects under construction in America, citing unspecified issues of national security.
The Trump administration’s anti-renewables policies have left gigawatts’ worth of new solar and wind projects strangled in red tape. So as Congress revisits energy-permitting reform, which it’s tried and failed to pass several times over the past few years, solar companies are taking a stand.
A Dec. 4 letter from 143 of those companies to congressional leaders takes aim at one Trump directive in particular: A July order from the Department of the Interior that requires its head, Doug Burgum, to personally approve every decision the agency makes on renewable energy. In the five months since that change, Burgum hasn’t signed off on any new solar projects on federal lands.
Lower Marion Township in Montgomery County will be the first municipality in Pennsylvania to totally ban gas-powered leaf blowers, starting in 2029. Here in Delaware County, Transition Town Greater Media is building awareness and community support before seeking similar restrictions.
