No False Solutions PA Coalition Urges Lawmakers to Avoid Rushing into Risky CCS Business Lead Writer Karen Feridun, Better Path Pennsylvania: Today (9/16/2024), the No False Solutions PA Coalition delivered a letter to state legislators and other public officials...
Climate/Energy
Carbon Capture, a Great Illusion
Written by Karen Feridun Posted by Michael Sauers August 29, 2024 A last minute scramble to pass a controversial bill introduced by Sen. Gene Yaw epitomizes the old saying, "There are two things you don't want to see being made-laws and sausages." According to Yaw,...
Fracking Puppet Masters Continue To Pull The Strings In Pennsylvania
Mike Sauers August 13, 2024 Oil and gas continues to drive the bus in Pennsylvania. They know full well that "hydraulic fracking" is an energy intensive, abusive and dirty endeavor. To get off the ground it requires special treatment from local and state regulations...
Response to Editorial that Appeared in Sun Gazette on May 25, 2024, Entitled, “We Need Long-term Answers to Energy Needs”
Michael Sauers May 27, 2024 Dear Editor, I agree with the May 25, 2024 editorial entitled,"We Need Long-term Answers to Energy Needs", but not through the use of "fracking". The authors sound like oil and gas alarmists when they "cry wolf" as they bemoan the use of...
Carbon Capture and Storage Is No Solution
Karen Feridun May 24, 2024 Karen Feridun is the co-founder of Better Path Coalition and No False Solutions PA Coalition In an op-ed published in the May 16, 2024 edition of the Observer-Reporter, State Senator Camera Bartolotto tries and fails to talk around the...
The Keystone Cops Are Back in Harrisburg
July 30, 2023 Mike Sauers The Keystone Cops represented humorous incompetence during the silent film era. In two previous posts, Why the Push for Clean Renewable Energy, dated November 12, 2021 and Driving With Blinders On..., dated January 5, 2022, I stated that...
Dialogue with Governor Shapiro
Mike Sauers January 25, 2023 The following is an opinion piece that recently appeared in The Sunbury Daily Item. It was written by Karen Feridun who is a co-founder of the Better Path Coalition and an organizer of the Pennsylvania Climate Convergence. Last summer, the...
Good News for Local Conservationists
This letter appeared recently in the Hazleton Standard Speaker. Editor: Local conservationists have recently received some unaccustomed good news. On the global level the Inflation Reduction Act provides substantial funding to combat climate change. On the national...
Driving With Blinders On—-How the Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ Association Views Corporate Welfare and Hydraulic Fracturing (“Fracking”)
Mike Sauers In a recent edition of Broad + Liberty, Carl Marrara, Vice President of Government Affairs at the Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association opines a very narrow but breathtakingly informative view of "corporate welfare"...
Why the Push for Clean Renewable Energy?
Mike Sauers My maternal grandfather, Andrew Hissick, was a licensed anthracite coal miner. His sons; John, Hubert and Daniel were his laborers. My fraternal grandfather, Michael Sauers, was a pump operator at the mines. I grew up surrounded by deep mines, culm banks,...