fadedrosebud t1_j29l00v wrote on December 30, 2022 at 5:15 PM

Go to the Breathe Project website, learn about their current campaigns and help them.

These people are not a bunch of impotent talkers. One of their affiliated groups, GASP, took on the issue of diesel buses idling outside of schools, spewing dangerous pollution. That's now illegal and most schools have "no idling" signs posted.

As long as we have politicians like Fitzgerald who never saw a polluting industry he didn't back, it remains frustrating and difficult. Need I repeat the importance of voting?

https://breatheproject.org/

CommaSplyce t1_j2b5b25 wrote on December 30, 2022 at 11:21 PM

GASP also is really good about letting people know how to take action, whether it's what meetings to attend, items seeking public comment or petitions to sign and so forth.

https://www.gasp-pgh.org/

87catsinatrenchcoat t1_j2b1gpy wrote on December 30, 2022 at 10:54 PM

I came here to suggest GASP. I also know someone who's making a documentary on air quality in Pittsburgh.

pimpnastie t1_j2afpzb wrote on December 30, 2022 at 8:30 PM

Take a guess how Fitz made his money

fadedrosebud t1_j2e896z wrote on December 31, 2022 at 4:42 PM

Wanna bet he'll be one of those politicians who accepts a job with a company he should have been helping to regulate? Maybe media consultant for the ET Works or the cracker plant?

CARLEtheCamry t1_j2d3uky wrote on December 31, 2022 at 10:15 AM

Are diesel busses what we're talking about here?

I mean I agree, you shouldn't do that. But doesn't it seem like a diversion?

fadedrosebud t1_j2e719u wrote on December 31, 2022 at 4:34 PM

No, it's not a diversion. I was simply using the diesel bus issue as an example of how GASP actually accomplished a change. People tend to dismiss these organizations as ineffectual, and they aren't.