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April 1, 2021

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Dismantling of the Chester-Upland Public School System “where segregation is admittedly a fact but not a policy.”
Chester Residents challenge Philadelphia Union – Subaru “Zero Waste to Landfill” campaign
  • YES Center Chester’s Women Change Makers: Zulene Mayfield
  • Chester Justice Celebration
  • CAPE GAZETTE:  Protesters Rally Against New LNG Export Terminals in P.A., N.J.
  • Sowing Seeds of Hope
  • WGMD: Climate Activists Return to Rehoboth, March to Biden’s Beach House

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🚨Action Alert! Mark you calendars for Nov. 17 P 🚨Action Alert! Mark you calendars for Nov. 17 PUC public hearings on Aqua's proposal to buy DELCORA, our sewage utility. Tell PUC we do not want our utilities privitized! More info and how to register below...

The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission has set two times on Nov. 17 to receive public input regarding Aqua Pennsylvania’s proposal to acquire DELCORA’s assets.
PUC has set two telephonic hearings on Nov. 17, one at 1 p.m. and the other at 6 p.m. PUC Administrative Law Judge F. Joseph Brady will preside over the hearings.

To testify, a person must pre-register with the Pennsylvania Officer of Consumer Advocate by 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 15.
To pre-register, contact that office by phone at 800-684-6560 or by email at consumer@paoca.org  and provide:
• Your first and last name.
• The date and time (1 p.m. or 6 p.m.) of the public input hearing.

DELCORA, the Delaware County Regional Water Quality Control Authority, treats wastewater for approximately 500,000 customers in 42 municipalities in Delaware and Chester counties.

In September 2019, Aqua Pennsylvania Wastewater Inc. signed a $276.5 million asset purchase agreement with DELCORA. When a new Democratic majority was seated on Delaware County Council in January 2020, county leaders contested that and the legal battles began.

As part of the process to acquire DELCORA, Aqua filed an application with the PUC. Part of that includes gathering public input.
🗓 Mark your calendars for Nov. 17 PUC public he 🗓 Mark your calendars for Nov. 17 PUC public hearings on Aqua’s proposal to buy DELCORA, our sewage utility. Tell PUC we do not want our utilities privitized! More info and how to register below...

📢 The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission has set two times on Nov. 17 to receive public input regarding Aqua Pennsylvania’s proposal to acquire DELCORA’s assets.

PUC has set two telephonic 📱hearings on Nov. 17, one at 1 p.m. and the other at 6 p.m. PUC Administrative 👩‍⚖️ Law Judge F. Joseph Brady will preside over the hearings.

🚨To testify, a person must pre-register with the Pennsylvania Officer of Consumer Advocate by 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 15.

📱To pre-register, contact that office by phone at 800-684-6560 or by 📧 email at consumer@paoca.org  and provide:

• Your first and last name.

• The date and time (1 p.m. or 6 p.m.) of the public input hearing.

DELCORA, the Delaware County Regional Water Quality Control Authority, treats wastewater for approximately 500,000 customers in 42 municipalities in Delaware and Chester counties.

In September 2019, Aqua Pennsylvania Wastewater Inc. signed a $276.5 million asset purchase agreement with DELCORA. When a new Democratic majority was seated on Delaware County Council in January 2020, county leaders contested that and the legal battles began.

As part of the process to acquire DELCORA, Aqua filed an application with the PUC. Part of that includes gathering public input.
🌎You can prevent the arrival of a LNG plant in 🌎You can prevent the arrival of a LNG plant in Chester by taking these immediate steps:

1. Call 📱 or Email 📧 the Chairs of the Senate ERE Committee to provide your input against LNG Terminals:

Chair: Republican State Senator Gene Yaw: 717-787-3280 or gyaw@pasen.gov.

Minority Chair: Democrat State Senator Carolyn Comitta: 717-787-5709 or senatorcomitta@pasenate.com. 

2. Call or Email Delaware County Council members and voice your concern

Dr. Monica Taylor (P: 610-891-4264 - TaylorM@co.delaware.pa.us)

Elaine Shaefer ( P: 610-891-4457- SchaeferE@co.delaware.pa.us)

Kevin Madden (P: 610-891-4253 - MaddenK@co.delaware.pa.us)

Christine Reuther (P: 610-891-4268 - ReutherC@co.delaware.pa.us)

Richard Womack (P: 610-891-4266 - WomackR@co.delaware.pa.us) 

📢Let them know you are OPPOSED 🚫to Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) ⛽️terminals as they will rip through and endanger our communities. This process is all in the name of corporate profit and at the expense of human and environmental health! Elected officials need to focus energy and resources on building clean, renewable energy sources and jobs. Chester is not a sacrifice zone! 

🙏Please consider taking a few minutes to contact any of the individuals above to express your opposition to these types of projects. Our voices matter and must be heard.
🗳🗳🗳There's still time to vote! The best t 🗳🗳🗳There's still time to vote! The best thing you can do for the city of Chester and it's residents is to vote! Vote like your life depends on it because it does!

⏳Polls close at 8:00 PM tonight!

📢Reminder that if you’re in the line to vote by 8:00pm YOU ARE STILL ABLE TO VOTE!!! Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise! 

If you get there and something is wrong with your  registration ask for a PROVISIONAL BALLOT 🗳
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We are thrilled to join the 2023 Grantee Cohort of @Frontline_RI, a capacity-building organization and resource hub supporting frontline communities working toward more just and equitable environmental outcomes. Learn more: https://buff.ly/42rsV4D

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Our youth group @CHOICES will explore the connection between environmental racism and violence this Saturday from 1-3 at the CAAT Center in Chester. Food will be provided at this free event! We hope to see you there!

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19 Mar

Meet environmental and global health expert @RuthL239, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN discussing threats to environmental health in Delco, esp. Chester City, & actions for residents targeting prevention and mitigation.

Register for link & to submit questions: https://buff.ly/42p3IHR

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16 Mar

If I’m drowning who cares who throws the life raft? - Chairperson, Zulene Mayfield

Whew! A whole word!

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Chester, Pennsylvania has long been known as one of the nation’s worst cases of environmental racism. This small city just southwest of Philadelphia hosts the nation’s largest trash incinerator, a sewage sludge incinerator, a paper mill burning waste coal and petroleum coke, numerous chemical plants, toxic waste sites, and much more. Immediately surrounding it in the neighboring waterfront boroughs of Eddystone, Trainer, and Marcus Hook are additional major polluters: primarily oil refineries and gas-fired power plants

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