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Archive: What’s on your mind blog

damage from coal mining

Coal Companies are Extracting More Than Just Coal from our Communities!

By Nick Hood / February 11, 2020
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This is the 9th installment in our What’s on your mind? series and was written by CCJ Community Organizer Nick Hood. In the 4th assessment (2008-2013), the researchers suggested that the PADEP update their extremely inefficient and outdated data collection systems. Not only did PADEP fail to improve their data collection systems from the last […]

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Merchants of Doubt

Merchants of Doubt

By Kristen Locy / November 14, 2019
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This is an accompanying “What’s on Your Mind” blog written by Dave Ninehouser from The HearYourselfThink Project: Who was behind spreading this politically motivated slime job, aka “Pizzagate?” Most conspicuously, Alex Jones, of course. The same internet scam artist responsible for exploiting the deaths of the children murdered in the Sandy Hook school shooting by […]

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Fracking gas burnoff

Community Health in Southwestern Pennsylvania

By Lisa DePaoli / October 9, 2019
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This blog was written by a concerned and engaged CCJ member and retired nurse who attended Monday night’s community meeting at the Canon-McMillan High school. With her permission, we are sharing her comments with you as the 5th in our What’s on your mind? series. In my view, whether they meant to disclose it or not, […]

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DOH Public Meeting

How many more of my friends have to die before the state takes action?

By Heaven Sensky / October 8, 2019
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As many of you have been following, the Department of Health of the great State of Pennsylvania held a public meeting at Canon-McMillan High School last night, October 7th, to discuss the methodology used to draw up their report, which concluded that there is no cancer cluster within the district.  As many of our followers […]

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Heinze family

On retirement, and keeping in mind the words of Margaret Mead

By Lisa DePaoli / August 2, 2019
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The Heinze family It’s a little frustrating that my retirement activities aren’t what I dreamed they would be. In my dreams, I was going to visit exotic places, improve my birding skills, learn to play the banjo I bought 25 years ago at a garage sale, take interesting college courses on the internet (e.g., western […]

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Solar energy

Can We Really Afford the Affordable Clean Energy Rule?

By Lisa DePaoli / July 17, 2019
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It seems as if the current administration has found its replacement for the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan in the Affordable Clean Energy Rule. Before I get into the details of how this plan may affect the country, here’s a little background: The goal of this action was to provide “…strong but achievable standards for […]

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