2013 Earth Day Protests at Regional PADEP Offices (April 22, Monday)
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2013EarthDay
| Earth Day Protest at Regional DEP Offices
http://www.gpofpa.org/2013earthday
For Immediate Release: April 3, 2013
Contact: Jay Sweeney, Green Party of Pennsylvania, 570-587-3603; Melissa Troutman, Mountain Watershed Association, 724-455-4200
Earth Day Protest at Regional DEP Offices
Calling on DEP to fulfill its mission and stop fracking
A coalition of more than 40 environmental organizations and individuals are rallying for protection of communities and the environment with a statewide Earth Day Protest on Monday, April 22. These rallies will call on our public officials to act with integrity and protect the people of Pennsylvania, who are being victimized every day by fracking and the cradle-to-grave dangers of shale gas extraction.
Rallies will take place at each of the Department of Environmental Protection’s (DEP) regional offices in Harrisburg, Meadville, Norristown, Pittsburgh, Wilkes-Barre and Williamsport on Earth Day. The coalition is calling for support
from people who want to stand together to preserve and protect our communities from the assault and abuse of environmental devastation.
The rallies will demand that DEP fulfill its mission to “protect Pennsylvania’s air, land and water from pollution and to provide for the health and safety of its citizens through a cleaner environment.” In order to do so, DEP must put the ‘public’ back in public policy.
Join the Earth Day coalition at your regional DEP office to demand our public officials:
• Appoint an
environmental expert without industry ties as DEP Secretary to ensure DEP’s mission is
fulfilled;
• Place a moratorium on
permits for gas wells, compressor stations, pipelines, water
withdrawals, coal mines, and other infrastructure related to fossil fuel
extraction;
• Allow no more toxic
secrets and full disclosure of
water tests and other studies by DEP;
• Provide justice for those harmed by the oil and gas
industry; and
• Reopen the DEP Office of
Energy and Technology Deployment to develop solar, wind and other
renewable energy technologies.
For more information or to get involved, contact these regional representatives:
Northeast: Jay Sweeney, 570-587-3603, jn...@epix.net
Southwest: Mel Packer, 412-243-4545 or 412-307-6827, melp...@aol.com
Northcentral: Russell Zerbo, 215-567-4004
x130, rze...@cleanair.org
Southcentral: Maria Payan, 717-456-5800,pay...@zoominternet.net
Northwest: Diane Sipe, 724-272-4539, siped...@gmail.com
Southeast: Chris Robinson, 215-843-4256, chris...@netzero.net
Currently the coalition includes:
Allegheny
College Students for Environmental Actionhttp://webpub.allegheny.edu/group/sea/Home.html
Benedictine Sisters Erie PA, www.eriebenedictines.org/
Berks
Gas Truth, http://www.gastruth.org/
Brandywine Peace Community, www.brandywinepeace.com
Bucks
County Green Party, www.pa.greens.org/bucks/
Citizens
for Clean Water
Communities United for Rights & Environment, http://marcellus-cure.blogspot.com/
Cross County Citizens Clean Air
Coalition
Damascus Citizens for Sustainability, DamascusCitizens.org
Delaware Riverkeeper Network, www. delawareriverkeeper.org
Energy
Justice Network, www.energyjustice.net/
Environmental
Justice Committee – Thomas Merton Center,http://thomasmertoncenter.org/projects/environmental-justice/
Food
& Water Watch, Sam Bernhardt, www.foodandwaterwatch.org
Fracking
Truth Alliance, http://frackingtruth.webs.com/
Frack
Mountain, www.frackmountain.com
Gas Drilling
Awareness Coalition, www.gdacoalition.org/
Granny Peace
Brigade Philadelphia
Green Party of Pennsylvania (GPPA), www.gpofpa.org
Green Party of Philadelphia
(GPOP), www.gpop.org
Growing Community Project, facebook.com/growingcommunityprojectPA
Celia
Janosik, Beaver County Volunteer Water Quality Monitor
Kill Mammon, www.killmammon.wordpress.com/about/
Lehigh
Valley Gas Truth, www.gastruth.org/
Lehigh Valley
Greens
Lenape Nation, Chief Shelley DePaul, www.lenapenation.org/main.html
Luzerne
County Green Party
Marcellus Outreach Butler, www.marcellusoutreachbutler.org/
Marcellus
Protest, www.marcellusprotest.org/
Montgomery
County Green Party, www.greens.org/pa/montgomery/
Mountain
Watershed Association, www.mtwatershed.com
Northwest
Greens, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nwgreens/
Peach
Bottom Concerned Citizens Group, www.pbccg.com/
PennEnvironment, www.PennEnvironment.org
PA
Alliance for Clean Water and Air, www.pacwa.org/
Physicians for Social
Responsibility Philadelphia, www.psrphila.org
Protecting Our
Waters, www.protectingourwaters.com
Jasmine
Rivera, Action United
Mark Schmerling Photography, www.schmerlingdocumentary.com
Shadbush Environmental Justice
Collective, www.shadbushcollective.org/289/
Shale
Justice Coalition
South Hills Area Against Dangerous Drilling
(SHAADD), www.shaadd.org
350 Berks & Lehigh Valley Climate
Action
Dr. Walter Tsou, Phila. Commissioner of Health
2000-2002
Westmoreland Marcellus Citizens’ Group, www.westmorelandmarcellus.blogspot.com/,
Women’s
International League for Peace and Freedom, Philadelphia/ Delco Branch,
York County Green Party, www.yorkgreenparty.org/