Here’s something you can do: Buffalo United March
The Buffalo United March and Rally is a coalition of people in Western New York who put people and the planet first. The event will take place starting at 11 a.m. Saturday, April 5 in Niagara Square, Buffalo.
Earlier events were held in February and March to protest the dismantling the Environmental Protection Agency and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, as well as other concerns.
You don’t have to show up on the dot and you don’t have to stay the whole time. Make a poster with your sentiments on it.
Sponsorship:
- IUPAT – District Council 4
- Rainbow Collective
- Voice Buffalo
- WNYCOSH
- Jericho Road
- WNY Peace Center
- Buffalo Prenatal Perinatal Network
- Justice for Migrant Families
- NY Immigration Coalition
- St. Joseph University Parish
- Power to the People Upstate New York
- Buffalo Prenatal Perinatal Network
- Coalition for Economic Justice
- Clean Air Coalition
- Buffalo Center for Health Equity
- CWA District 1
- CWA 1168
- League of Women Voters Buffalo Niagara
- PUSH Buffalo
- Buffalo Center for Health Equity
- Organize for Action WNY
Call your representative & senator; it’s easy
“Are you frustrated and confused about what you’re seeing out of Washington these days? You’re not alone,” according to Jill Jedlicka, executive director of Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper.
“Fresh from a visit to Capitol Hill, we can tell you firsthand that we witnessed phones ringing off the hook in Congressional elected offices. Your voices are being heard.”
Calling your elected officials is easy, quick and not scary. It’s very effective–every call is counted.
See how to do it in this short video to get an idea of how to do it.
EPA to fire 75% of the research staff
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans to eliminate its scientific research office and could fire more than 1,000 scientists and other employees, according to The Associated Press (AP) on Wednesday, March 19.
As many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists — 75% of the research program’s staff — could be laid off, according to documents reviewed by Democratic staff on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology.
The planned layoffs were assailed by critics as a massive dismantling of the EPA’s longstanding mission to protect public health and the environment.
Massive rollback of environmental rules
On Thursday, March 13, Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper posted on Facebook about the previous day’s announcement from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). That announcement set off “a massive rollback of over 30 environmental rules is unparalleled in our nation’s history.
“In addition to the shocking EPA language of ‘driving a dagger into the heart of climate-change religion,’ and the promotion that ‘global warming is simply a side effect of building a modern world,’ buried within this announcement is the intent to reconsider the reach of our nation’s bedrock clean water laws.
“This is only the beginning of efforts to weaken the Clean Water Act.
“We are witnessing the start of the methodical dismantling of the already limited rules and protections in place.”
Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper asks citizens to communicate with their “elected representatives on this action and every action to come that threatens our nation’s water, air, and environment… don’t be complacent, as individual citizens still have the right and the power to affect change.
“Please, help us protect our lakes, our community and our planet.”
Learn how to find your elected officials here.
Bipartisan support for GLRI
Jill Jedlicka, executive director of Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper, brought home some advocacy wins for the WNY waterways from Great Lakes Days on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C.
Representative Nick Langworthy has pledged his support for the bipartisan Great Lakes Restoration Initiative reauthorization bill and Representation John W. Mannion signed up for the Great Lakes Task Force.
