If you thought the biggest threat to our favorite pastime was another COVID-19 lockdown, think again. While most of us were stuck inside waiting for Florida beaches to reopen this spring, the Trump administration was quietly continuing its assault on laws designed to protect our coastline. One might wonder how suspending the enforcement of EPA regulations has anything to do with stopping a global pandemic, but this was just one of the many surprise rollbacks the administration has slid under the table in the last four years.

Nick DelficoOctober 29, 2020Florida, Election, Election 2020, Ocean, Environment, Climate Change, NOAA Comment

Biden-Harris Ticket Will Save Wisconsin Waters from Pollution Devastation

The Trump administration’s rollbacks on energy industry regulations are threatening the future of Wisconsin’s rivers, lakes and streams. Just last Friday, Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency flouted a 2018 D.C. Circuit Court ruling that required power plants to stop storing coal ash in unlined pits—a cheap storage option for the toxic waste, notorious for leaking and contaminating groundwater.

Carroll ColeOctober 27, 2020pollution, Wisconsin, Great Lakes, Biden, Election, politicsComment

Meet our Newest Candidate, Laura Wood Habr

Blue Uprising is thrilled to endorse Laura Wood Habr, Virginia Beach candidate for City Treasurer. Laura is a lifelong resident of the area restaurant entrepreneur, founding member of the Business Alliance to Protect the Atlantic Coast (BAPAC) and this is her first time running for elected office.

William RinehartOctober 25, 2019Virginia 2019, Virginia, Election, Environment, environmental voter

Climate Change, it's More Intersectional Than You May Have Thought

You may have read about the DNC deciding that having a single-issue debate about climate change would not be fair to the other groups who would like to see their specific issue debated by the Presidential candidates.

William RinehartSeptember 12, 2019Virginia, Gerrymandering, Virginia 2019, Election, Democrat, forum, climate change Comments