People Over Petro Coalition @peopleoverpetro.bsky.social · 07/08/2026🎒 Be Prepared: Your Go (and Stay) Bag Checklist In this last installment of our WHY WE PREP series, we’re getting specific. What do you need to have prepped in case of a disaster? ➡️ Download our full checklist here: peopleoverpetro.org/enabled-prep 110
People Over Petro Coalition @peopleoverpetro.bsky.social · 31/07/2026After a Disaster: Know Your Rights ⚖️ Remember, no matter what anyone else says, your rights are never suspended in a disaster. By understanding your rights, you can become your own best advocate – even in an emergency. ➡️ Download full Enabled Prep guides: peopleoverpetro.org/enabled-prep 321
People Over Petro Coalition @peopleoverpetro.bsky.social · 28/07/2026⚡During A Disaster: Stay Safe Above all - don’t ignore it. Trust yourself and your senses, and seek out reliable real-time information from your local government, news, or emergency services. ➡️ Follow us and download Enabled Prep guides at: peopleoverpetro.org/enabled-prep 120
People Over Petro Coalition @peopleoverpetro.bsky.social · 27/07/2026✏️Before a Disaster: Make A Plan Preparation doesn’t have to happen all at once, so don’t push yourself past your limits. Just do what you can, when you can. ➡️ Want more disability-centered disaster response tips? Follow us and download Enabled Prep guides at: peopleoverpetro.org/enabled-prep 101
People Over Petro Coalition @peopleoverpetro.bsky.social · 24/07/2026🏭 1 in 3 Americans lives within range of a potential chemical disaster – but how many of us know how to handle them? ♿ Learn more about chemical disasters through our WHY WE PREP series on disability-centered disaster response. Download printable guides on our site! peopleoverpetro.org/enabled-prep 110
People Over Petro Coalition @peopleoverpetro.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Introducing ♿⚡✊Introducing - Why We Prep: An Enabled Guide to Disaster Response. Follow along here as we post more Enabled Prep tips throughout the rest of Disability Pride Month, and check out our site for downloadable guides to help you on your prep journey: peopleoverpetro.org/enabled-prep 101
People Over Petro Coalition @peopleoverpetro.bsky.social · 03/06/2026BIG NEWS! On May 28, Freepoint Eco-Systems notified the Ohio EPA that it will shut down its Central Ohio plastic incinerator, located just outside of Hebron in Licking County, by the end of July. This is a MAJOR win. Go to tinyurl.com/OH-Get-Involved to get involved in the just transition. 020
People Over Petro Coalition @peopleoverpetro.bsky.social · 22/04/2026🌍 Happy Earth Day. This year, our message is simple: Thank you. Thank you for taking a stand for air and water, for our families and neighbors, for the futures we deserve to have a say in. We’re not alone, nor will we remain silent about what matters most. We simply have too much on the line. 000
People Over Petro Coalition @peopleoverpetro.bsky.social · 31/03/2026🔥 The E.P.A. is quietly trying to remove industrial plastic burning from the Clean Air Act. This nasty rule would strip the Clean Air Act from its authority to control pollution from plastic and trash incinerators. Register for the virtual hearing by April 1: survey.alchemer.com/s3/8763276/E... 000
Reposted by People Over Petro CoalitionBreathe Project @breathe-project.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Make your voice heard! The DEP is hosting a public Q+A regarding Shell's upcoming Permit Approval - and we need you there. Help make a difference in the air we share. 📍 Penn State Beaver Auditorium 🗓 March 19th | 6:00PM Register here, or just show up! tinyurl.com/ShellQA 001
People Over Petro Coalition @peopleoverpetro.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Every day, chemicals that we know have long-term health impacts are being weaponized against unarmed civilians. This is not governance, this is cruelty in action. We stand with our communities who are caring for one another - here, and in Minnesota. Support at standwithminnesota.com ✊🏾✊🏿✊🏻 011
Reposted by People Over Petro CoalitionToxic-Free Future @toxicfreefuture.bsky.social · 17/12/2025250+ public health & enviro groups sent Congress a clear message: protect public health & reject the chemical lobby’s push to weaken #TSCA, our nation’s chemical safety law. Read the letter and TAKE ACTION! #PolluterProtectionAct #PFAS #phthalatestoxicfreefuture.org250+ groups urge Congress to reject chemical lobby push to weaken TSCA - Toxic-Free FutureToxic-Free Future, Safer States, and more than 250 state, local, and national public health and environmental groups sent a joint letter to Congress this week, urging lawmakers to reject the chemical ... 01112
People Over Petro Coalition @peopleoverpetro.bsky.social · 23/10/2025📢 Calling all WV artists! @wvcag.bsky.social and POPCO are seeking WV-based visual artists and illustrators to collaborate with on regional clean air quality campaigns. 🎨 APPLY by Thurs, Oct 30th at peopleoverpetro.org/artistsapply 021
People Over Petro Coalition @peopleoverpetro.bsky.social · 12/08/2025Our hearts are heavy after the explosion at Clairton Coke Works yesterday, which took the lives of two workers and injured ten more, including medics. For community disaster response and donation info, see below and visit: www.takeactionadvocacygroup.org/post/environ... 022
People Over Petro Coalition @peopleoverpetro.bsky.social · 01/08/2025🐦Join Bernie’s Fighting Oligarchy tour in Wheeling on Friday, August 8! Bernie and other local leaders will speak about working class issues and how we can collectively take back working class power in West Virginia and the United States. RSVP here now: bit.ly/berniewheeling 000
People Over Petro Coalition @peopleoverpetro.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Developing story: we're tracking a chemical disaster from GFS Chemicals in the Franklinton area of Columbus, as reported on by The Columbus Dispatch this afternoon. Please exercise caution in the area and follow local radio and news for updates. Link to article: www.dispatch.com/story/news/l... 000
People Over Petro Coalition @peopleoverpetro.bsky.social · 10/07/2025New Report Documents #Racist Rot at the Core of the Petrochemical Industry truthout.org/articles/new... #NoSuprise #Colonization continuestruthout.orgNew Report Documents Racist Rot at the Core of the Petrochemical IndustryEconomist Michael Ash shares new data on racial disparities in the industry — a major purveyor of environmental racism. 000
People Over Petro Coalition @peopleoverpetro.bsky.social · 09/07/2025Sat, June 12th is Pittsburgh Environmental Action Day! We’re hitting the streets with a rally, march and concert to call for clean air, climate justice & an end to toxic pollution. Learn more: breatheproject.org/upcoming-events #CleanAirNow #PeoplePower #EnvironmentalJustice #BreatheTogether 010
Reposted by People Over Petro CoalitionToxic-Free Future @toxicfreefuture.bsky.social · 12/06/2025🗣️ Investors and community advocates are calling on The Home Depot to phase out toxic PVC plastic in packaging and building materials. The message is clear: protecting health and the environment is good business. PVC is linked to cancer and environmental harm—and safer alternatives already exist.toxicfreefuture.orgInvestors warn The Home Depot: Toxic PVC is a business risk - Toxic-Free FutureInvestors urge The Home Depot to phase out PVC, citing growing health, environmental, and financial risks of PVC in building materials. 0117
People Over Petro Coalition @peopleoverpetro.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Without the work of the @Tulane Environmental Law Clinic, it would be impossible to show the racially discriminatory practices of the petrochemical industry. Think that’s why @LAGovJeffLandry and @TUFitts want to stop it…? apnews.com/article/canc...apnews.comTulane scientist resigns citing university censorship of pollution and racial disparity researchA Tulane University researcher has resigned, citing censorship from university leaders. Kim Terrell, a researcher with the Tulane Environmental Law Clinic, resigned Wednesday, saying in a letter the u... 000
Reposted by People Over Petro CoalitionFriends of the Earth U.S. (Action) @foeus.bsky.social · 10/06/2025Formosa Plastics’ petrochemical plant is poised to destroy St James Parish, Louisiana by spewing pollution. So how is it possible that financial institutions are pouring billions of sustainability-linked loans into this corporation? foe.org/news/uncheck... 026
Reposted by People Over Petro CoalitionSustainable Youngstown @sustainableytown.bsky.social · 28/05/2025SCC warns #Youngstown #Ohio w/ billboard on Belmont: www.stop-sobe.com/post/sobe-co... #pyrolysis #advancedrecycling #wasteToFuel @beyondplastics.bsky.social @peopleoverpetro.bsky.social @breakfreefromplastic.orgstop-sobe.comSOBE Concerned Citizens Place Billboard On Belmont Avenue In YoungstownBillboard in Youngstown Ohio warning of dangers of pyrolysis 012
People Over Petro Coalition @peopleoverpetro.bsky.social · 12/05/2025Advanced Recycling Is a Fraud—And the Big Oil Plastics Industry Knows It www.commondreams.org/opinion/adva...commondreams.orgAdvanced Recycling Is a Fraud—And the Big Oil Plastics Industry Knows It | Common DreamsThis is just a new version of a sad and familiar story: the plastics industry's attempt to use the idea of recycling to protect its license to operate and continue producing ever-greater amounts of pl... 021
Reposted by People Over Petro CoalitionCenter for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 08/05/2025As one plastics industry consultant noted in 2024, “[c]apacity has not developed as major projects have been delayed or cancelled. … From where I sit, things look grim.” 043
Reposted by People Over Petro CoalitionCenter for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 08/05/2025"Advanced" recycling is not: ❌ new or groundbreaking ❌ scaling up in line with industry commitments ❌ able to address hard-to-recycle plastics ❌ environmentally friendly ❌ circular Don't take our word for it. Read what plastics industry insiders have said: 👇 climateintegrity.org/projects/adv... 12014
People Over Petro Coalition @peopleoverpetro.bsky.social · 12/05/2025Nighttime Flaring at Shell Plastics Plant Lit Up Beaver County ‘Like Dawn' “I opened my back door and it was like a zombie apocalypse had hit the Earth,” said Hilary Starcher-O’Toole, the executive director of the Beaver County Marcellus Awareness Community. insideclimatenews.org/news/0905202...insideclimatenews.orgNighttime Flaring at Shell Plastics Plant Lit Up Beaver County ‘Like Dawn’ - Inside Climate NewsShell reported a malfunction April 25, and the company was later issued a notice of violation. Residents are still looking for answers. 011
People Over Petro Coalition @peopleoverpetro.bsky.social · 30/04/2025This is a big deal. Call your Senator TODAY and tell them to vote NO on SJR 31 - a Congressional Review Act that would permanently strip the Clean Air Act of its ability to report and regulate industries most toxic chemicals like mercury, lead, and benzene. Now is our best chance to stop it! 000
Reposted by People Over Petro CoalitionDr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 25/04/2025AI rides a tandem bicycle with fracking, part 2: news.oilandgaswatch.org/post/driven-...news.oilandgaswatch.orgAmerica's Largest Gas Plant Grows Out of Artificial Intelligence's Hunger for PowerAfter the smokestacks and cooling towers that served Pennsylvania’s largest coal plant were torn down last month, an enormous gas-fired power plant was announced at the site about an hour east of Pitt... 074
Reposted by People Over Petro CoalitionBreathe Project @breathe-project.bsky.social · 24/04/2025“Single-Use Planet” - Host a Watch Party! Saturday, April 26 at 7 pm GLOBAL AIRDATE! Find the PBS “World” channel through your local TV service & tune in on 4/26 at 7pm: www.wqed.org/where-t... Stream Single Use Planet for free on-demand here anytime for the next year. 011
People Over Petro Coalition @peopleoverpetro.bsky.social · 25/04/2025Journalist @kmkowalski @canarymedia reviews @alexgibneyfilm on $60 M bribery scheme that brought down Ohio's former GOP Speaker. Takeaway: Continued use of dark money in politics through nonprofits or LLCs, & technology will likely be used to cover up future bribes. #FossilFuelFailure bit.ly/3Sb5pVjbit.lyOhio’s HB 6 utility scandal gets true-crime treatment in HBO film“The Dark Money Game: Ohio Confidential” is now streaming on MAX. A Canary Media reporter who’s spent years covering the corrupt energy legislation offers… 000
People Over Petro Coalition @peopleoverpetro.bsky.social · 23/04/2025🌱 Excited to join @pop_akron @bigloveakron @buckeye_network for this Sat's East Akron Healing Concert, featuring @umojahnation 🎶 Stop by for healing practitioners, food, music, and community this Sat. April 26th from 1-4pm in the Rosemary Apartments’ parking lot (1185 Keys Pl). Hope to see u there! 000
People Over Petro Coalition @peopleoverpetro.bsky.social · 23/04/2025EPA Deletes Pollution Tracking Tools as It Offers Exemptions to Polluters truthout.org/articles/epa...truthout.orgEPA Deletes Pollution Tracking Tools as It Offers Exemptions to PollutersA new lawsuit is challenging the Trump administration’s removal of environmental justice maps and datasets. 000
Reposted by People Over Petro CoalitionPeople Over Petro Coalition @peopleoverpetro.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Its just plastic burning www.nrdc.org/resources/ch...nrdc.org“Chemical Recycling” Is a Toxic TrapAs public concern grows about mountains of plastic trash, the plastics industry is promoting technologies that it misleadingly calls “chemical recycling” and touts as a solution to the plastic crisis.... 002
Reposted by People Over Petro CoalitionPeople Over Petro Coalition @peopleoverpetro.bsky.social · 01/04/2025No April Fool's: Congress is fast-tracking a resolution that would strip Clean Air Act protections and open the floodgates to cancer-causing pollution.😨 We deserve to live poison-free lives! Call your Congressperson today and tell them to vote NO on HJR 79. 121
People Over Petro Coalition @peopleoverpetro.bsky.social · 01/04/2025No April Fool's: Congress is fast-tracking a resolution that would strip Clean Air Act protections and open the floodgates to cancer-causing pollution.😨 We deserve to live poison-free lives! Call your Congressperson today and tell them to vote NO on HJR 79. 121
People Over Petro Coalition @peopleoverpetro.bsky.social · 28/03/2025🚨 Mercury. Arsenic. Benzyne. Trump's E.P.A. just invited the nation's most hazardous polluters to apply to sidestep Clean Air Act regulations. Let's flood their inbox first. 🌊🌊🌊 LINK to email template: docs.google.com/document/d/1... 010
Reposted by People Over Petro Coalitionfencelinewatch.bsky.social @fencelinewatch.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Eight protesters, including Fenceline Watch founder & director Yvette Arellano were arrested while peacefully protesting outside of #CERAWeek the largest global oil, gas, & petrochemical conference w/ 200 countries & dozens of fossil fuel CEO's. #CERAWeek2025 #ConfrontingCeraWeek 01812
People Over Petro Coalition @peopleoverpetro.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Its just plastic burning www.nrdc.org/resources/ch...nrdc.org“Chemical Recycling” Is a Toxic TrapAs public concern grows about mountains of plastic trash, the plastics industry is promoting technologies that it misleadingly calls “chemical recycling” and touts as a solution to the plastic crisis.... 002
People Over Petro Coalition @peopleoverpetro.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Chemour's Washington Works facility has already polluted West Virginia waterways with PFAS but now industry lobbyists are pushing to rollback clean water protections. We deserve clean water not more forever chemicals! mountainstatespotlight.org/2025/03/11/d...mountainstatespotlight.orgWhat a water quality rollback reveals about how West Virginia regulates the chemical industryCritics say the bill would allow more pollution by making it easier to reclassify the state’s waterways. Proponents say it’s just common sense. 000
Reposted by People Over Petro CoalitionBuckeye Environmental Network @buckeyeenviro.bsky.social · 09/03/2025THANK YOU to our amazing supporters, attendees, and expert speakers for making the Statehouse Symposium a huge success🎉! #EnvironmentalJustice #CleanWater #ProtectOhio 163
Reposted by People Over Petro CoalitionBeyond Plastics @beyondplastics.bsky.social · 28/02/2025A new billboard stands right in front of a proposed “chemical recycling” facility In Quincy, West Virginia to help set the record straight about these operations. 👉Get the facts at: advancedrecyclingfacts.com #NoChemicalRecycling #GrassrootsPower 1105
Reposted by People Over Petro CoalitionEarthworks @earthworks.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Trump's Plastic Straws executive order, at the heart of it, is yet another BIG GIVEAWAY to corporate polluters at the price of some very real, harmful consequences for American communities. Read our blog - bit.ly/3QGAaRAbit.lyPlastic Straws are a strawman, plastic production causes the real harm - EarthworksMarch to End the Plastic Era 2024. Photo by Ben Powless. Two weeks ago, the Trump administration signed an executive order reversing the federal 001
Reposted by People Over Petro CoalitionFracTracker Alliance @fractracker.bsky.social · 28/02/2025🚨 WV’s “Unclean Air Act” is back! Senate Bill 575 would block state agencies from using community air quality data—making it harder to detect pollution. Communities know when something’s wrong. Don’t let industry silence them! 📢 Tell legislators to oppose SB 575!wvrivers.salsalabs.orgStop the Unclean Air Act!Communities know best when something is wrong in their environment. Contact Senate Leaders and tell them you OPPOSE SB 575. 001
Reposted by People Over Petro CoalitionToxic-Free Future @toxicfreefuture.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Two years after the #EastPalestine OH train derailment, The Home Depot still sells #PVC building materials made from vinyl chloride. The Home Depot must ban this #PoisonPlastic to protect communities at risk of vinyl chloride exposure, from Texas to New Jersey. toxicfreefuture.org/take-action/...toxicfreefuture.orgThe Home Depot: Vinyl chloride polluted my community in Ohio. Stop selling this poison plastic. - Toxic-Free FutureTell The Home Depot to ban toxic PVC in building materials like flooring, siding, and packaging. 03624
Reposted by People Over Petro CoalitionSave Ohio Parks @saveohioparks.bsky.social · 22/02/2025Do you love our state parks and public lands and want to protect them? Do a good deed today. Tell @govmikedewine.bsky.social to call a moratorium on new and pending leases to frack our public lands. bit.ly//MoratoriumNow @drpeggy70.bsky.social @peopleoverpetro.bsky.social #NoFrackingOhio 013
Reposted by People Over Petro CoalitionEnvironmental Health News @ehnewsroom.bsky.social · 12/02/2025New report: Shell’s petrochemical plant in Pennsylvania still hasn’t spurred economic development. The county that’s home to the plant continues to fall behind the rest of the state and the nation in key measures of economic activity. www.ehn.org/shell-cracke...ehn.orgShell's ethane cracker in PA still hasn't delivered the economic growth it promisedTwo years after starting operations, the county that's home to the plant has fallen behind the state and the nation on jobs, GDP, and income levels. 001
People Over Petro Coalition @peopleoverpetro.bsky.social · 05/02/2025The OH EPA broke our hearts by issuing an air pollution permit to SOBE 💔 Join us for a press conference and rally on the one year anniversary of this permit: 🗓️ Feb 14th ⏰ 1-1:30 pm 📍 620 Belmont Ave, Youngstown, OH 44502 Learn more: www.stop-sobe.com/ 010
Reposted by People Over Petro CoalitionFracTracker Alliance @fractracker.bsky.social · 04/02/2025We’re hiring! FracTracker Alliance is seeking an Environmental Data Conference Fellow for a five-month fellowship to assist in planning and executing a groundbreaking conference on environmental justice and data solutions. Apply now: www.fractracker.org/about-us/int... Deadline: 2/14/25 @ 5PM CSTfractracker.orgInternship Opportunities | FracTracker AllianceExplore current internship opportunities with FracTracker Alliance and find out more about our paid internship and visiting scholar programs. 012
Reposted by People Over Petro CoalitionSave Ohio Parks @saveohioparks.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Parks belong to the people, not @govmikedewine.bsky.social or oil & gas! Tell Ohio to stop fracking our beloved state parks and public lands. Comments due for Egypt Valley WA by Feb. 6. Cite #24-DNR-0011: bit.ly/40ffPXN @peopleoverpetro.bsky.social @drpeggy70.bsky.social @healthylakes.orgbit.lyNow they want 4360 acres of Egypt Valley Wildlife Area – tell them no!Last week, fracking tanks on a well pad just five miles from Salt Fork State Park exploded. The local fire department closed area roads, and everyone in a mile radius was evacuated. Due to ext… 022