Opinion

Clean Air Council shares the problem and how to take action. This week city public health officials and advocates came together to oppose Trump’s damaging proposal to allow uncontrolled methane pollution from oil and gas facilities. We emphasized what we’re...

The city hasn’t announced where the $14 million will go. But how could those dollars make a safer, more sustainable city? “Philadelphia can’t breathe…” reads the opening line of the city council’s letter to Mayor Kenney this past Monday, informing...

Journalists have been arrested in Philly while covering protests this week. Here’s a letter local media outlets sent. (Note: This letter was sent to Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw on Thursday.) June 4, 2020 Dear Commissioner Outlaw: We represent the newsroom...

We are outraged and mourn the senseless murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Tamir Rice, and too many black Americans. We stand in solidarity with the black community who have suffered injustices for too long. Over the past...

This piece originally appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer and is republished as a part of our Broke in Philly mini-series, the Hidden Environmental Costs of COVID-19, a partnership between Green Philly and Next City. Photographs of crowded parks filled my...

After coming under criticism for this year’s theme, did PHS emphasize more than beauty during the Flower Show? Here’s our take. In October, Ernesto Pujol penned an opinion piece for the Inquirer titled “The 2020 Philadelphia Flower Show’s ‘Riviera Holiday’...

Although Aquaman debuted in theaters almost a year ago, I finally watched the movie this past weekend. (A few disclaimers: I didn’t know much about the movie or plot, except that it was a comic book, played by sexy Khal...

Instead, we should be focusing on reducing our consumption of single-use plastics. This past Tuesday evening, I taught a Sustainable Household Practices course at Morris Arboretum. After distributing recycling guides to participants, I received a steady stream of questions. “Can...

(Because President Trump Won’t) Guest column by Joseph Otis Minott, Esq., executive director and chief counsel of Clean Air Council Recently, President Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced its latest move to undo commonsense environmental protections and further weaken federal...