Friend – Did you see the email we sent yesterday? It's pasted below. We've gotten a tremendous response so far, but with anti-environmental lawmakers already coming out against Governor Shapiro’s plans to protect our environment and our freedoms, we need everyone to pitch in whatever you can. 

Join in the fight now! 

Friend --

I just left Harrisburg, and couldn’t be more excited to hear Governor Josh Shapiro’s funding priorities for the coming year. This budget is good news for the environment. 

The governor is calling for historic investments in environmental protection by hiring needed personnel, investing initiatives like the Clean Water Fund, and advancing clean energy through the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.

This is the kind of support we need to fight for a cleaner, greener Pennsylvania. But it’s going to take all of our efforts to get this budget passed by the anti-environment controlled Senate. 

Friend, can you chip in $10, $25, or more today to help us win the battle against the oil and gas supporters in Harrisburg and secure more protections for Pennsylvania’s environment?  

It’s clear that Governor Shapiro shares our beliefs about what it takes to make our families safe, healthy, and thriving: investing in clean rivers and streams, good air quality, family farms, and good-paying, union clean energy jobs across Pennsylvania. 

It may not be sexy, but it will make a huge difference: Governor Shapiro’s budget calls for more than $5.75 million to grow the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection’s oversight capacity to monitor the safety of our dams and our air quality, cap and plug abandoned mines, and maintain our state parks. 

He is also advocating for Pennsylvania to pay our fair share in keeping our largest rivers that cross state lines, like the Delaware and Ohio, clean, helping out our family farms, and addressing lead in schools that could lead to permanent brain damage in children.  

There’s one item in the Governor’s budget address that we’ll be fighting – bringing a hydrogen hub to Pennsylvania. Hydrogen is untested, too often relies on fossil fuels and pipelines, and is going to take a long time before it has a low cost. That’s why we’re advocating instead for investing in proven and 100% safe, clean, renewable industries that can create good-paying, union jobs. 

Now, we need to make this budget a reality and pass it through the legislature – and that’s going to take grassroots organizing, mobilizing our members, lobbying with our partners, and running targeted ad campaigns in swing districts. It’s not going to be easy – our margins in the State House are so slim. But I know we can get there if all of our members come together right now.   

Please, friend, pitch in with a donation of $10, $25, or more so that we can get this budget passed, strengthen the pro-environment voice in Harrisburg, and fight for even more bipartisan victories that will protect every Pennsylvanian now and for generations to come. 

Thank you for all you do for our movement,

Molly Parzen

Executive Director

Conservation Voters of PA

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