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Monthly archive May, 2022

Interview with Senator Pete Harckham

Sen. Pete Harckham Invites New Yorkers To Speak Up NYS Senator Pete Harckham wants all New Yorkers to take part in the Climate Action Council’s hearings and to keep involved in order to bring about needed actions to fight climate change. The Climate Action Council has staged public meetings throughout New York accepting comments from...

Interview with Vanessa Agudelo

Vanessa Agudelo Invites YOU to the Climate Action Council Hearings Vanessa Agudelo, former Peekskill council member and presently a Democratic candidate for the congressional seat formerly held by retiring Sandy Galef (CD-95), is asking all of us to bring our ideas concerning Climate change and what we can do about it to these hearings, whether...
Canada and a renewable grid by 2035

Canada and a renewable grid by 2035

“To make it happen, Canada must expand its renewable energy sector in an unprecedented leap, building more than 50,000 megawatts of new wind and solar every five years by 2050. That’s more than five times the previous record of 9,200 MW built between 2011 and 2015, but the foundation says recent policy changes in other...

The War on Ukraine and the War on Renewables. 6 minutes.

This 6 minute video by Marilyn Elie highlights how the fossil fuel industry and their allies are using the war in Ukraine to ramp up production and as an excuse to push to build more pipelines. The questions to ask when confronted with this faulty logic are: How does it help Ukraine for us to...

2022, May 15. Solidarity Fair

https://photos.app.goo.gl/NRNkGMqadB3Z7rDk8 Hi Howard, I thought you might enjoy this glimpse of the Solidarity Fair.  Feel free to share with other groups if you like. Marilyn Elie

Dumping radioactive water from fuel pools

https://www.capecodtimes.com/story/news/2022/05/11/nrc-faced-backlash-public-meeting-plymouth-proposed-changes/9598232002/ Read this important article because it will apply to Indian Point. The question is not what is allowable under NRC regulations but what happens when swimers, boaters, children playing on shore and also fish and wildlife ingest a radioactive isotope?  It remains in bone and tissue for the life disrupting cell function. Marilyn  Elie...

From the Front Line. Earthday 2022, Asheville’s Earthday Eight take on world’s 2nd largest military contractor

Windmills Not War Machines EARTHDAY 2022: 50 ASHEVILLE ACTIVISTS SHUT DOWN RAYTHEON: WORLD’S SECOND LARGEST WAR MACHINE CONTRACTOR On Earthday, 2022 50 young and elder activists from the Asheville area gathered in Bent Creek Park on the French Broad River under banners that read: “Windmills not War Machines” and “Declare a Climate Emergency”. Our goal...