YOUR FOOD & WATER WATCH AT WORK ACTION SHOT!
Food & Water Watch’s Pennsylvania State Director, Megan McDonough, took on the fracking industry in a fiery speech at a press conference at the Pennsylva- nia State Capitol in Harrisburg this past April. I stand here as a mother who is filled with rage and sorrow for the countless families torn apart by the insidious practice of fracking…Those of us living in these communities have been watching children falling ill with a multitude of health impacts for years now… my own being one of them…It is time The press conference at the Pennsylvania State Capitol included discussions about the public health impacts of hazardous waste exposure and findings from Justin Nobel’s latest book, Petroleum-238: Big Oil’s Dangerous Secret and the Grassroots Fight to Stop It . for us to rise up, to raise our voices in anger and defiance, and to demand justice for all who have been harmed by the horrors of fracking.
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FEATURED VICTORY Together, we successfully
pressured Governor Newsom to phase out fracking in California! Back in 2021, Governor Newsom declared his intention to ban frack- ing, and his agencies haven’t issued a fracking permit since. After this three-year de facto ban, in February, California’s Geologic Energy Manage- ment Division released its plan to formally phase out this polluting practice by prohibiting the state from issuing new fracking permits. We celebrate this announcement which came after over a decade of advocacy from Food & Water Watch and allied groups across the state and country. We now need to stop the state from extracting oil from existing wells. Thank you for making this positive step towards a clean energy future possible!
Food & Water Watch joined Ventura, California residents and organizations to protest a SoCalGas compressor station expansion, as well as California’s continued extraction and use of fossil fuels (2021).
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