Archived Press Releases

2010
  • PennFuture, GASP, and local citizens urge Allegheny County Board of Health to reject clean air plan that sacrifices health of 80 families
    Read More  March 10, 2010

  • PennFuture, GASP urge U.S. EPA to reject Allegheny County Health Department’s clean air plan that sacrifices health and lives of 80 families
    Read More  March 2, 2010

  • Pennsylvania families could save $457 per year if energy efficiency policies are included in federal climate, green jobs, and energy bill
    Read More  February 24, 2010

  • PennFuture calls Commonwealth Foundation out for attacking integrity of Penn State, demands retraction and apology
    Read More  February 16, 2010

  • PennFuture lauds Governor Rendell for support of tax on Marcellus Shale drilling, action on global warming, Clean Energy and Green Jobs legislation
    Read More  February 9, 2010

  • Clean Energy/Green Jobs legislation will create nearly 130,000 new jobs, save consumers at least $1.9 billion
    Read More  February 3, 2010

  • PennFuture praises Rendell decision to increase DEP’s staff and beef up regulations and inspections of Marcellus Shale drillers
    Read More  January 28, 2010

  • Allegheny County air pollution cleanup plan too little, too late, leaving human health sacrifice zone
    Read More  January 22, 2010

  • PennFuture praises report from Allegheny County Air Quality Task Force
    Read More  January 11, 2010

  • PennFuture, Friends of Dunkard Creek file appeal on mine water treatment permit allowing dirty water to be released into creek
    Read More  January 4, 2010


    2009
  • Business and environmental leaders applaud completion of Pennsylvania’s Climate Change Action Plan
    Read More  December 18, 2009

  • Winners announced in Black and Gold Community Challenge
    Read More  December 16, 2009

  • History proves electricity competition benefits consumers, environment, creates green jobs
    Read More  December 1, 2009

  • PennFuture announces intent to sue farms for allowing sewage into local streams
    Read More  November 18, 2009

  • National Wildlife Federation and PennFuture formally join forces for Pennsylvania
    Read More  November 16, 2009

  • PennFuture praises Senator Arlen Specter for leadership for Green Jobs and Clean Energy
    Read More  November 13, 2009

  • PennFuture signs federal consent decree with FirstEnergy to end air pollution from Bruce Mansfield power plant
    Read More  October 15, 2009

  • PennFuture expresses deep sense of relief as budget leaves State Forests relatively unharmed, thanks to heroic State House members
    Read More  October 9, 2009

  • Pittsburghers launch new campaign to eliminate city’s number one spot with nation’s dirtiest air
    Read More  October 8, 2009

  • New Coalition to Rescue Philadelphia's Riverfronts
    Read More  October 7, 2009

  • PennFuture praises State House for passing natural gas drilling tax against all odds; Senators must now answer “Whose side are you on?”
    Read More  October 2, 2009

  • PennFuture study shows more pollution from industrial livestock operations in local waterways and Chesapeake Bay, despite pledges to clean up
    Read More  September 29, 2009

  • The future of No-Sylvania
    Read More  September 22, 2009

  • Budget is sweetheart deal for multi-national gas drillers, bupkis for taxpayers;
    Read More  September 11, 2009

  • Pennsylvania Trolley Museum, Yards Brewing Company, Flabeg, Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, Pittsburgh’s John Wesley A.M.E. Zion Church, Oxford Development, Warminster Township, Allegheny Power, Armstrong World Industries, Four Season Produce,
    Read More  September 9, 2009

  • PennFuture, Chesapeake Bay Foundation decry plan to abandon severance tax on Marcellus Shale, sell off state’s public lands to drillers
    Read More  September 9, 2009

  • Pseudo-event planned for Chester today; Big Oil attempt to kill climate change law uses deceit instead of facts
    Read More  September 3, 2009

  • Local community, citizens’ group gain big win for environment in Covington Industrial Park settlement
    Read More  August 20, 2009

  • Letter to Pennsylvania Senate in response to charges by Senator Mary Jo White's office
    Read More  August 5, 2009

  • PennFuture calls Marcellus Shale study example of fuzzy logic, fuzzy math
    Read More  July 27, 2009

  • Environmental groups challenge Foundation’s attempt to degrade Greene County streams
    Read More  July 23, 2009

  • PennFuture responds to Senator Corman’s request,delivers communications from 125 constituents asking for new tax
    Read More  July 17, 2009

  • Legislators, municipal leaders, hunters, anglers, conservationists join PennFuture in calling for budget that protects our land, water and communities
    Read More  July 16, 2009

  • Pennsylvania Works! Coalition praises State House for passing green building bill
    Read More  July 13, 2009

  • Pennsylvania Works! coalition praises House passage of historic preservation bill
    Read More  June 24, 2009

  • PennFuture praises House Environment Committee for passing natural gas severance tax with money reserved for local government, environment, and wildlife agencies
    Read More  June 23, 2009

  • PennFuture, others, rebuke 3 PUC Commissioners for inaccurate and misleading letter to Congress on global warming legislation
    Read More  June 22, 2009

  • PennFuture praises House Environmental and Energy Committee for passing Green Jobs/Clean Energy Bill
    Read More  June 16, 2009

  • Pennsylvania named third in nation for green jobs
    Read More  June 10, 2009

  • Legislators, municipal leaders, wildlife agencies join PennFuture in calling for action protect our land, water and communities from natural gas drilling
    Read More  June 9, 2009

  • DEP, PennFuture score major victory in saving one of Pittsburgh’s largest and best intact green spaces
    Read More  May 21, 2009

  • PennFuture, along with legislators and public interest organizations, takes action to protect citizens’ rights in brief filed before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court
    Read More  May 18, 2009

  • PennFuture Asks PA Supreme Court to Reinstate Mercury Pollution Rule
    Read More  April 27, 2009

  • PennFuture says House Republican Energy Task Force plan to open hundreds of thousands of acres of state lands to drilling is not responsible
    Read More  March 24, 2009

  • Community, business and governmental leaders launch historic citywide campaign to cut global warming
    Read More  March 17, 2009

  • Coalition launches campaign to tax drilling for natural gas; New statewide poll shows 87% want dedicated portion of tax used to protect land, water, and wildlife
    Read More  March 16, 2009

  • PennFuture praises Governor Rendell for joining the bipartisan Governors’ Wind Energy Coalition
    Read More  February 24, 2009

  • PennFuture Condemns Loss of Mercury Pollution Rule by Commonwealth Court
    Read More  January 30, 2009

  • PennFuture applauds legislators for introducing new legislation to expand clean energy requirements
    Read More  January 28, 2009

  • PennFuture offers opportunity for citizen input on global warming plan
    Read More  January 22, 2009