On July 24, 2022, CRCQL and C4 hosted a youth gardening event called Sowing Seeds of Hope at Highland Gardens Playground in Chester. Youth spent the day painting pots, planting flower and vegetable seeds to take home, and learning about the importance of taking care of their environment and themselves, all over some much needed water ice and soft pretzels. […]
WGMD: Climate Activists Return to Rehoboth, March to Biden’s Beach House
https://www.wgmd.com/climate-activists-return-to-rehoboth-march-to-bidens-beach-house/ July 24, 2022/Alan Henney For the second time this summer, climate activists chose to protest in Rehoboth Beach because it is the location of Biden’s vacation home. This time they marched to the President’s beach house where they chanted and posed for photographs. Rehoboth Beach, state police and Secret Service vehicles parked along the side of the street so […]
47ABC WMDT: Activists Hold Rally at President Biden’s Beach Home, Push for Climate Action
https://www.wmdt.com/2022/07/activists-hold-rally-at-president-bidens-beach-home-push-for-climate-action/ View full article for the video of a news segment including an interview with C4 member Sarah Chang July 23, 2022 by Javari Burnett REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. – Climate advocates from across the U.S. hit the streets of Rehoboth Beach Saturday with one of President Joe Biden’s vacation homes as their destination and they had one message. “It’s not […]
BAY TO BAY NEWS: Rehoboth Protesters Urge Biden to Address Climate Crisis
https://baytobaynews.com/delaware/stories/rehoboth-protesters-urge-biden-to-address-climate-crisis,84505 DELAWARE STATE NEWS/KATIE REDEFERThe climate march concluded outside President Biden’s beach home, which appeared to be vacant this weekend while the president recovers from COVID-19 in Washington D.C. Posted Saturday, July 23, 2022 11:39 pmBy Katie Redefer REHOBOTH BEACH — Dozens of demonstrators urged President Joe Biden to declare climate change a national emergency in a protest that marched […]
CMP Radio Interview
CRCQL member Will Jones accompanied by C4 members Anna Considine and Sarah Chang speak on CMP Radio about their work over the summer
WHYY – Could Delco get a major LNG export terminal? (June 14, 2022)
Plans for a massive liquefied natural gas facility and export terminal in Chester along the Delaware River have quietly been shopped around to current and former elected officials and their representatives from Chester City Hall to the governor’s office in Harrisburg. WHYY News obtained details of the plan, as well as the company’s lobbying efforts through Right-to-Know requests. Penn America Energy LLC, […]
“A proposed LNG plant in Chester would be gigantic and hardly anyone knows about it” Philadelphia Inquirer (June 13, 2022)
https://www.inquirer.com/business/liquefied-natural-gas-export-plant-philadelphia-penn-lng-20220613.html Penn LNG, headed by a native Philadelphian, has quietly lined up support to build a $6.4 billion liquefied natural gas export terminal near Philly. The energy project faces many challenges. The GWSI warehouse at Front and Lloyd Streets in Chester, which in a previous life was a Ford assembly plant, is said to be a leading candidate for a […]
March 16, 2022 – CRCQL Press Conference at County Council
Chester Residents & Allies host Press Conference at Delco Council Meeting to demand NO Incineration of County trash! March 17, 2022 – Media, PA. – Yesterday, almost 70 residents from Chester, PA and across Delaware County held a press conference and staged a die-in/sit-in before the Delaware County Council Meeting. Their point was clear: under no circumstances should the County […]
March 16 CRCQL Press Conference: Delco Times coverage
Protesters stage ‘die-in’ as Delaware County mulls over new contract with Covanta By KATHLEEN E. CAREY | delcotimes.com March 20, 2022 at 6:51 a.m. MEDIA – More than 50 people gathered in the Delaware County Government Center courtyard Wednesday to stage a “die-in” to protest Delaware County’s use of the Covanta waste-to-steam facility in Chester as the Delaware County Solid […]
March 9: Chester residents and CRCQL allies attend the Solid Waste Authority Board Meeting
Chester residents and CRCQL allies attend the Solid Waste Authority Board Meeting March 9, 2022 – Media, PA – Residents from across Delaware County joined the Delco Solid Waste Authority (DCSWA) Board meeting on Wednesday, March 9th to hear more about the Board’s review of a new Covanta contract for Delaware County waste. Objections were made by CRCQL for the […]
