Organizations in
Pennsylvania
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The Sierra Club Pennsylvania Chapter
717-234-7445 P.O. Box 606 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17108 |
The Sierra Club is America's oldest, largest, and most influential grassroots environmental organization. Our Mission Explore, enjoy and protect the wild places of the earth. Practice and promote the responsible use of the earth's ecosystems and resources. Educate and enlist humanity to protect and restore the quality of the natural and human environment. Use all lawful means to carry out these objectives. The Club promotes conservation by influencing public policy through grassroots activism, public education, lobbying, and litigation. We work to defend the environment at all levels of government including U.S. Congress, state legislatures, and state and federal courts. |
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Shadbush Environmental Justice Collective
Street City, Pennsylvania 15201 |
The shadbush collective formed in the spring of 2010 out of a desire to develop a more radical response to the climate crisis and environmental injustice as they manifest in Pittsburgh and throughout our region. In many ways we came together around the immediate need to organize against natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale, which threatens even some of our own neighborhoods in Pittsburgh. This struggle is at the forefront of our work. But we do not wish to limit our work to a single campaign or issue – the destruction of communities and ecosystems under capitalism will not end with a single practice, nor will the “solutions” offered to us from above lead us to a sustainable future. Regionally, we see the need to work in solidarity with coalfield communities in Pennsylvania and throughout southern Appalachia, affected by longwall mining and mountaintop removal. Connecting struggles against coal and natural gas is critical to showing that no form of fossil fuel extraction, or consumption, is safe or clean. We also see a need to help grow community solutions to climate change and peak oil. In our city, we see the growth of so-called green businesses, development projects, and city programs heralded as the seeds of a green economy. However, these institutions often undermine our capacity for self-sufficiency by co-opting community projects and contributing to gentrification. We hope to support projects which truly build community sustainability and autonomy in Pittsburgh. |
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Pennsylvania Alliance for Clean Waer and Air
814-518-7507 Street City, Pennsylvania |
The Pennsylvania Alliance for Clean Water and Air is a group of concerned citizens in Western and Central Pennsylvania with the common goal of protecting our natural resources and the environment from the dangers of hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking", in the Marcellus Shale Play. Through public meetings and the media, we are committed to spreading the word about the: * hazards of pollution to our water, air, and land from chemicals and VOCs. * increased demand for fresh water sources (1 to 5 MILLION gallons per gas well) * strains on public services and infrastructure due to increasd traffic/population * negative impacts from pollution and development on wildlife and nature |
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Natural Resources Defense Council
(212) 727-2700 40 West 20th Street New York, New York 10011 |
The Natural Resources Defense Council's purpose is to safeguard the Earth: its people, its plants and animals and the natural systems on which all life depends.We seek to establish sustainability and good stewardship of the Earth as central ethical imperatives of human society. NRDC affirms the integral place of human beings in the environment. |
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EPA Regional Office – Mid-Atlantic
1-800-438-2474 1650 Arch Street (3PM52) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103 |
The Mid-Atlantic regional office implements federal environmental programs in Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia, including: air and water pollution control; the Chesapeake Bay program; toxic substances, pesticides and drinking water regulation; wetlands protection; hazardous waste management; hazardous waste site cleanup; and some regulation of radioactive materials. Activities include compliance and enforcement, inspection, engineering reviews, ambient monitoring, analysis of environmental trends, environmental planning, pollution prevention, risk assessment, and education and outreach. |
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