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Lois Herr, the Democratic candidate for Congress in Pennsylvania’s 16th Congressional District, has pointed to a glaring inconsistency in Congressman Joe Pitts’ public statement on Amtrak in Lancaster. “Joe Pitts tries to come off as an Amtrak booster in his taxpayer-funded campaign mail,” Herr said. “But he’s no friend of rail travel in Lancaster County.” [...]

by Chris Bowman, from wcborodems.org/, 7/5/10 I’m working in Philadelphia this summer, and on my way to lunch this past Friday I was stopped by a Greenpeace volunteer asking for donations. One stat she mentioned particularly struck me: “In ten years, if we do not change our environmental impact, practices and policies, we will cause [...]

letter, Daily Local News, 5/31/10 I bet you’ve been thinking, just like me, what is the government doing about this catastrophic oil spill in the gulf? We’ve seen hours and hours of footage of BP’s attempts to control the spouting oil, but I haven’t seen a hardly a word about the government’s efforts to stop [...]

Daily Local News, June 23, 2010 By DAN KRISTIE, Staff Writer TREDYFFRIN – State Rep. Paul Drucker, D-157th, of Tredyffrin, announced on Monday that the state has granted $1 million for the construction of a 2.75-acre solar farm on the Paoli Rail Yard property. Building the solar farm is part of the ongoing, intergovernmental effort [...]

From: “Rich Sestak, Campaign Director” Subject: “Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you got till it’s gone” Date: Jun 18, 2010 10:55 AM Even after the BP catastrophe, Pat Toomey still wants to drill in the Great Lakes. Yesterday, Erie’s No.1 newscast reported on Pat Toomey’s visit there: “Toomey believes [...]

email from President Obama, 6/5/10: Yesterday, I visited Caminada Bay in Grand Isle, Louisiana — one of the first places to feel the devastation wrought by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. While I was here, at Camerdelle’s Live Bait shop, I met with a group of local residents and small business owners. [...]

letter from Richard Whiteford in Daily Local News, June 05, 2010 It’s amazing that skeptics like Cal Thomas, who clearly represents big oil interests still get the time of day in the media. In his article, “The climate change club loses punch” he talks about three modern myths, climate change being the one on which [...]

guest column by Greg Vitali, representative of the 166th district in Harrisburg, in the Daily Local News, 6/1/10 Recently, the Pennsylvania House overwhelmingly passed legislation that would put a three-year moratorium on the leasing of additional state-owned forest land for Marcellus gas drilling. The state Senate should act immediately on this legislation to help prevent [...]

from ” We Can’t Wish Away Climate Change,” New York Times, February 27, 2010: The heavy snowfalls this month have been used as fodder for ridicule by those who argue that global warming is a myth, yet scientists have long pointed out that warmer global temperatures have been increasing the rate of evaporation from the [...]

Daily Local News guest column, February 18, 2010 By Joe Sestak, Guest Columnist State Sen. Gene Yaw of Pennsylvania’s 23rd District ended his guest column in The Daily Local News on Feb. 1 with a quote from the editorial board of the Williamsport Sun-Gazette: “Where the natural gas boom is concerned, we need to grow [...]