Voters Will Decide to Fund Environment on May 17
Harrisburg and Pittsburgh, PA - Citizens for Pennsylvania’s Future (PennFuture) today took part in simultaneous press conferences in Harrisburg and Pittsburgh to help launch a bipartisan statewide campaign to urge voters to vote Yes to support the statewide Growing Greener ballot question at the May 17 Municipal Primary.
The Harrisburg press conference featured Governor Ed Rendell; Former Ridge Administration Secretary of Environmental Protecti

Harrisburg, PA - Citizens for Pennsylvania’s Future (PennFuture) today announced that it has gone batty for Earth Day, launching a live webcam of Pennsylvania’s largest bat colony, just as the 15,000 little brown bats and 30 to 100 endangered Indiana bats return to their summer home and maternity ward in the attic of a 19th century church in Canoe Creek State Park. “Holy Earth Day,” said John Hanger, PennFuture’s President, CEO and Batman in Charge. “Our webcam at www.pennfuture.org/bats is show

Harrisburg, PA - Citizens for Pennsylvania’s Future (PennFuture) congratulates the Governor and the members of the Senate and House of Representatives for today’s passage of the authorization for a $625 million bond for environmental restoration and conservation projects. The General Assembly’s passage of the Growing Greener Environmental Stewardship and Watershed Protection Act ensures that a question will appear on the May primary ballot asking voter approval of the $625 million bond. PennFutu

Harrisburg, PA - After meeting today with Secretary Dennis Wolff of the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture and other representatives of the Rendell Administration to receive a draft of legislation concerning factory farms, Citizens for Pennsylvania’s Future (PennFuture) expressed dismay at the legislation which will render local governments powerless to protect their residents, schools, places of worship and hospitals from the odors and pollution from factory farms. The draft legislation has