by Lois Gibbs | Jun 29, 2017 | Blog
We in the wealthiest country in the world should feel ashamed. America takes our most vulnerable families - poor or working poor - and houses them next to polluting industries, poisons their children and now wants to take away their access to health care. This vicious...
by Lois Gibbs | May 26, 2017 | Blog
'Homeland Security - No more wars over oil!' That’s what families in communities across Pennsylvania were promised a decade ago. 'We’ll extract natural gas from the ground, using an unconventional process called hydrofracturing, to acquire enough natural gas that the...
by Lois Gibbs | Apr 13, 2017 | Blog
As we begin our national conversation about tax reform, why don’t we start with low-hanging fruit – the things we can all agree are right? Why not reinstate the Superfund tax, which used to make polluters pay to clean up their own mess? By reinstating this “Polluter...
by Lois Gibbs | Mar 27, 2017 | Blog
Anne Gorsuch, the mother of Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, was my worst nightmare. In 1982, when I first confronted her about toxic contamination in Times Beach, Missouri, she led the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under Ronald Reagan. Anne stepped down a...
by Lois Gibbs | Mar 19, 2017 | Blog
President Donald Trump’s deep cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency terrify me. They will gut the agency, removing protections for American families and our children. As I travel from one polluted community to the next, women weep as they hold their children,...