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Join us TOMORROW (Saturday June 21) at 11am at Niagara Square!

Join us this Saturday June 21 at 11am at Niagara Square in downtown Buffalo for the next Buffalo United Rally and March! Learn more at linktr.ee/buffalounited

⏰ 08 days left to pass the Packaging Reduction & Recycling Infrastructure Act!🤳Call 518-455-4100 to ask your Assemblymember to protect environmental justice + public health ⚕️ by voting YES on A1749 by 6/17. ✅

Important effort to begin the process to protect oilfield workers and oil industry truckers from the dangerous waste created by the oil and gas industry.

Another world is possible if we fight for it.

@dec.ny.gov has released the Draft Environmental Impact Study for Proof-of-Work based Cryptocurrency Mining - check it out at this link, and also note the dates for hearings across the state, including the WNY one on July 9! Written comments accepted through September 25. dec.ny.gov/environmenta...

Let’s be clear: ICE injured and detained the president of SEIU California for peacefully observing. ICE picked the wrong side. The wrong state. The wrong person. and the wrong union. David Huerta stood up. And now 750,000 SEIU workers are standing up behind him. seiuca.org/press-releas...

The nearly 15 million working people of the AFL-CIO and our affiliated unions demand the immediate release of @californialabor.bsky.social Vice President and @seiuca.bsky.social and SEIU-USWW President David Huerta. aflcio.org/press/releas...

www.wnylabortoday.com/news/2025/06...

The smoke from Canada’s wildfires may be even more toxic than usual. A legacy of mining means that toxic metals could be carried along plumes of smoke. grist.org/climate/cana... #Wildfire #Smoke #Wildfires #Climate #Air #AQI

"Tesla has been a dead end for Buffalo. New York should seek out more responsible employers with real manufacturing jobs to occupy the RiverBend site." - Sam Magavern with @ppgbuffalo.bsky.social and Kevin Connor with @mapthepower.bsky.social buffalonews.com/opinion/arti...

Air quality in WNY is being affected by the wildfire smoke today 6/6/25 - DEC has issued an alert for sensitive groups, and PurpleAir's live monitors are showing readings well above 100. PurpleAir monitors in Toronto are showing live readings above 200! map.purpleair.com/air-quality-...

Air Quality Alert issued June 6 at 10:21AM EDT by NWS Buffalo NY Additional Details Here.

Tonawanda and Kenmore residents - on Monday at 7pm there will be a public hearing at 2919 Delaware Ave about a proposed traffic calming project on Colvin between Kenmore and Sheridan! tonawandatownny.iqm2.com/Citizens/Det... @gobikebuffalo.bsky.social

While Elon Musk is in the news today, here's another story related to him that everyone should read up about!

Massachusetts nonprofit HEET wants to turn leaky infrastructure into district-wide geothermal heat-pump systems that it hopes will create a “post-gas world.” grist.org/fix/energy/e... #Geothermal #BosPoli #Massachusetts #Climate

This must-watch video from @moreperfectunion.bsky.social exposes how Elon Musk's company is poisoning a majority-Black community in Southwest Memphis – an area already overburdened by decades of environmental injustice. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VJT...

Look for us today in the Buffalo Pride Parade marching with our friends in the Justice and Liberation Bloc!

Keep an eye on the wildfire smoke forecast the next few days - there are again some massive wildfires in Canada that could impact our region's air quality. firesmoke.ca/forecasts/cu...

@cornellilr.bsky.social is hiring a Climate Jobs Associate here in Buffalo to work with labor and community groups to develop policies to address the climate crisis while creating high-quality union jobs - check out the job post for more info! apps.hr.cornell.edu/recruiting/f...

It's time for banks to cut ties with serial polluter Formosa Plastics. It's $12B "Sunshine Project" would dump 800+ tons of pollution/year into Louisiana. 👇Tell @jpmorgonchase @Citibank @BankofAmerica: stop funding projects that make communities sick. actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

General Motors will invest $888 million in its Town of Tonawanda plant, to produce a new generation of V8 engines.

Two of the bills our representatives in Albany are considering will stop book bans if passed - send a letter in support today! actionnetwork.org/letters/tell... Please also join us at the next Ken-Ton School Board meeting on June 10 at 6pm at Kenmore High to push back on these proposed book bans!

Check out our Another Voice column in today's @buffalonews.com - it's long past time NYS fully invested to a Just Transition by committing to build out 15 GW of publicly-owned renewable energy projects by 2030. @publicpowerny.bsky.social buffalonews.com/opinion/arti...

🚨🚨🚨 HEADS UP - Democratic Senators Gillibrand, Gallego, Warner, and Alsobrooks are scheming to hand Trump a major gift by advancing a shady crypto bill - the GENIUS Act today. They aren’t even pretending that this bill will rein in any corruption issues. ☎️ Senate 202-224-3121 to say no to crypto.

This week's episode of Movement Memos is for activists and organizers who need to think about safety and security planning during these times (and that's all of us). I am grateful to Che Johnson-Long for this thoughtful, caring, and practical conversation. Audio + transcript:

🧪 The NSF grant terminations hit women, racial & ethnic minorities, and those with disabilities the hardest. E.g.: --Female PIs were 58% of canceled grants (but 34% of all active grants) --Black PIs were 17% of canceled grants (but 4% as base rate) A closer look shows this is structural... 🧵

We pause today to remember the victims of the white nationalist terrorist attack here in Buffalo on 5/14. Roberta Drury, 32 Margus Morrison, 52 Andre Mackniel, 53 Aaron Salter, 55 Geraldine Talley, 62 Celestine Chaney, 65 Heyward Patterson, 67 Katherine Massey, 72 Pearl Young, 77 Ruth Whitfield, 86

Upcoming public meetings- Lovejoy - 6-8 p.m. TONIGHT 5/13 at the Schiller Park Senior Center, 2057 Genesee Fillmore - 6-8 tomorrow 5/14 at the Matt Urban Center, 1081 Broadway. Ellicott - 6-8 5/20 at the Pratt Willert Community Center, 422 Pratt Delaware - 6-8 June 10 at Dash’s Market, 1770 Hertel

Via WNYALF - Teamsters from Local 264 who work for SP+ Parking & Jacobsen Daniels at the Buffalo Niagara International Airport are ON STRIKE! This strike will continue 24/7 until an agreement is reached. Join picketers at BNIA (4200 Genesee St.) or at SP+ Niagara Falls (2035 Niagara Falls Blvd.)

Reorganizations at the EPA may get rid of the agency’s fundamental program for research around the risks of toxic chemicals. www.wired.com/story/epa-ir...

Important coverage from The Buffalo News - NOAA is a quiet but crucial and lifesaving entity in WNY, and these cuts endanger each and every one of us.

Stream Data Centers, of Dallas, is set to construct the 900,000-square-foot data center – roughly the same square footage as nine Home Depot warehouse stores – on the Science, Technology and Advanced Manufacturing Park, or STAMP site, in Genesee County.

The town sought state aid to cover the cost of a new system to carry raw water to businesses along the Niagara River that use this resource for their operations. buffalonews.com/news/local/g...

Generally speaking, you should not see smoke from smokestacks or exhaust pipes, because that indicates incomplete combustion and some pollution being released. Most of the time when you see a white plume, it's steam.

The AI industry's chief spokesperson says the quiet part out loud: the massive data center buildout "will" be powered by fossil gas and "maybe" a bit of solar and later we "hope" that nukes will deliver carbon-free energy.

Now in @politico.com : Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company is operating 35 gas turbines without any pollution permits, belching asthma-worsening emissions into an area that leads Tennessee in ER visits for asthma. www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

Clean Air and other Buffalo-area membership-based organizations and labor unions will be marching together in the Buffalo Pride Parade! Sign up your group or register individually at this link - linktr.ee/bflojusticeb... @eqnybuffalo.bsky.social @1199seiu.org