Members of our community are encouraged to participate in helping us to clean up roads across Lancaster County and Chester County, PA. Our fist clean up is in Gap, PA along the Lincoln Highway. WLRI will start at the Gap Bypass (U.S. 30 @ PA 41) and work east to the Chester County line (Swan […]
BY: Andrea Sears COATESVILLE, Pa. – It’s time to invest in local solar jobs. That’s the message climate-justice advocates delivered to PECO on Tuesday. Clean-energy backers rallied in Coatesville, calling on Philadelphia Electric Co. to make local jobs a priority by committing to at least 20% solar power by 2025. According to Dana Robinson, media director for […]
Harrisburg, PA –Super Bowl Sunday has grown into a national holiday of sorts with millions of fans celebrating the pinnacle of the National Football League’s season with parties and adult beverages. Unfortunately, this celebration also leads to an increase in impaired driving and associated crashes. Fans need to be responsible and plan ahead for the big day […]
Chester County District Attorney Tom Hogan announced that there had been new developments along Sunoco’s Mariner East pipelines in Chester County, Pennsylvania over the weekend. On Sunday, January 20, a new sinkhole opened up in a neighborhood along the pipelines. In addition, the District Attorney’s Office discovered that constables from outside of Chester County apparently […]
By: Andrea Sears HARRISBURG, Pa. – Unscrupulous contractors in southeast Pennsylvania routinely are violating labor laws and victimizing customers, including state and local government, according to a new report. The report from the Keystone Research Center found many contractors in the regional Philadelphia construction industry are in a race to the bottom. Stephen Herzenberg, author of the […]
By: Laura Rosbrow-Telem HARRISBURG, Pa. – Chesapeake Bay became more polluted last year for the first time in a decade according to a new report from the Chesapeake Bay Foundation – and a majority of the pollution came from Pennsylvania. The foundation’s “State of the Bay Report” said extreme weather from climate change – including […]
Chester County District Attorney Tom Hogan announced that the District Attorney’s Office (the “DAO”) has opened a criminal investigation into the construction of the Mariner East 1, 2, and 2X pipelines being constructed through Chester County. This investigation includes the owners of the pipelines – – Energy Transfer LP, Sunoco Logistics Partners, and related […]
Winter Solstice 2018 The official start of astronomical winter, the #WinterSolstice, arrives Friday, December 21st at 5:23p.m. EST, marking the shortest day/longest night of the year in the northern hemisphere. Download QR 🡻