October 20, 2025

Is the Data Center Boom Headed for a Bust?

You’ve probably heard about the nationwide data center building boom, the hype about artificial intelligence and Republican plans to make Pennsylvania a data center/AI hub. A closer look indicates that this boom may soon become a bust, with a …

October 6, 2025

Alarm Over PFAS Pollution from Datacenters

Use of PFAS gas at datacenters may mean their climate and health impacts are worse than previously thought

Datacenters’ electricity demands have been accused of delaying the US’s transition to clean energy and requiring fossil fuel plants to stay online, …

August 19, 2025

URGENT! Comment by August 22 to Stop the Sullivan County Incinerator

INCINERATOR ACTION ALERT!!!

Sullivan County has issued a Draft Request for Proposals (RFP) for companies to submit proposals for a “Waste-to-Energy” facility (an incinerator) to be built in Sullivan County on the site of the old landfill in Monticello.

While …

August 11, 2025

Data Centers Coming to NEPA and NY? Are We Ready?

See what it’s like living near a data center, watch: I Live 400 Yards From Mark Zuckerberg’s Massive Data Center


There is a push to bring massive data centers to northeast Pennsylvania. These centers require large tracts of land,

August 6, 2025

Fracking in the Delaware River Basin Will Put NJ’s Drinking Water at Risk

New Jersey Water from the Delaware River
Over half of New Jersey’s population is dependent on drinking water from the Delaware River Basin.
The DRBC ban on fracking must remain in place!

Much of the drinking water used in New …

August 5, 2025

Pledge to Defend The Delaware River Frack Ban

Physicians for Social Responsibility PA calls on the Delaware River Basin Commission to uphold the frack ban


DCS and the Delaware River Frack Ban Coalition Launch New Campaign – A Citizen’s Pledge to Defend the Delaware River Frack Ban

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July 8, 2025

Frack, Crack, Boom, Bang at the DVAA

Since its inception in 2008, DCS has publicized what happens to people and communities located near frack wells and associated infrastructure (see the DCS informational posters). The Academy Award nominee film Gasland, by Josh Fox, is dedicated to

June 28, 2025

Five Years After Pennsylvania’s Landmark Fracking Report, Its Public Health Goals Remain Largely Unmet, Groups Say

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here.

A grand jury convened by Josh Shapiro, then attorney general and now

June 5, 2025

Job Opportunity: Help Make Good Things Happen

Administrative Assistant/Bookkeeper

 

Damascus Citizens for Sustainability

Clean Air, Land and Water are Basic Human Rights

Damascus Citizens for Sustainability, a pioneering environmental nonprofit in the Upper Delaware River Valley, is seeking a detail-oriented and organized Administrative Assistant/Bookkeeper to support

May 26, 2025

Incinerator Proposal in Sullivan County Continues

Last September 14 we posted extensive information related to the Sullivan County Legislature proposing to build a so-called “waste-to- energy” incinerator in eastern Sullivan County to solve Sullivan County’s waste disposal problem citing concerns about the pending loss of the …

May 19, 2025

Deep Water Literary Fest: Reimagining Our Climate Story

If you missed this event, you can listen to the discussion here:


As our planet undergoes profound transformation, this conversation with climate scientist Kate Marvel, Indigenous scholar Lyla June Johnston, and literary historian John MacNeill Miller explores how we might …

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