We the People Wednesdays Action for August 26

ACTION 1:

Last week Governor Shapiro issued a sweeping executive order to slow and regulate the development of data centers in Pennsylvania.  The order requires data center projects to meet environmental and transparency requirements, including water conservation and the need to provide their own electricity generation or pay the costs associated with increased usage. The order also demands data centers provide community benefit agreements that include promises to hire and train local employees along with investments in schools or infrastructure.  The PA House has passed several bills regulating data center growth, with wide bipartisan margins, but all have stalled in the PA Senate.  Regulating data centers has broad bipartisan support, and needs legislative action.

Write to State Senate Majority Leader Joe Pittman to take action on regulating data centers.  Modify this sample text:

Dear Senator Pittman,

  Unregulated data center growth is bad for Pennsylvanians.  Please support common-sense regulation.

Sincerely,

<your name and city>

Senator Joe Pittman 

350 Main Capitol Building

P.O. Box 20304

Harrisburg, PA 17120

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ACTION 2:

In February, we wrote our U.S. Senators to reject a bill allowing copper mining in Minnesota’s pristine Boundary Waters, the most visited Wilderness in the United States.  The bill unfortunately passed and became law.  But last week, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz issued an executive order protecting the Boundary Waters from mining.

Write to Governor Walz thanking him for protecting this national treasure.  Modify this sample text:

Dear Governor Walz,

  Thank you for using your authority to protect the Boundary Waters.

Sincerely,

<your name and city>

Governor Tim Walz

130 State Capitol

75 Rev Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.

St. Paul, MN 55155