By: Lisa Scheid, The Reading EagleMarch 1, 2021

A decision last week by the Delaware River Basin Commission would ban fracking through the Delaware River watershed, including Berks County.

There had been a temporary moratorium instituted in 2010, but that was recently challenged in court. The ban is also likely to face legal challenges.

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By Nina Lakhani, The GuardianJanuary 23, 2021

This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

Indigenous leaders and environmentalists are urging Joe Biden to shut down some of America’s most controversial fossil fuel pipelines, after welcoming his executive order canceling the Keystone XL (KXL) project.

Activists praised the president’s […]

The 60-year-old congresswoman from New Mexico will next month become the first Native American cabinet secretary in US history, when she takes responsibility for the country’s land and natural resources as head of the Department of the Interior under Joe Biden. Haaland is a member of the Laguna Pueblo, one of 574 sovereign tribal nations located across 35 states. According to the 2010 census, 5.2 million people or about 2% of the US population identifies as American Indian or Alaskan Native – descendants of those who survived US government policies to kill, remove or assimilate indigenous peoples. Come January it will also be Haaland’s job to uphold the government’s legally binding obligations to the tribes – treaty obligations which have been systematically violated with devastating consequences for life expectancy, political participation and economic opportunities in Indian Country. […]

FrackFree NC joins with ally organizations in front of NC DEQ to urge officials to cancel ACP! June 30, 2020

The cancelling the Atlantic Coast Pipeline is a victory for justice of many kinds! Environmental Justice, because the African American and Indigenous communities along the pipeline route can breathe easier that this massive project […]

Over the past few weeks, we have all felt the impacts of the coronavirus impact, sacrificing public gatherings, visiting with family and friends, income, and much more to stop the spread of COVID-19. But the pandemic and the reponse by one federal agency may force some communities to pay an even larger price.

The […]