February 2, 2025

Support DCS Efforts to Save the Skinners Falls Bridge

The Zane Grey Gallery has generously offered to donate all proceeds from its sales of Skinners Falls Reflections, by Craig Snedeker, to DCS’s legal efforts to save the Skinners Falls Bridge. Use the QR Code below or go to

January 30, 2025

Tell Your Representatives How You Feel About the SF Bridge and FIMFO

It’s crunch time for the Skinners Falls Bridge and the proposed Camp FIMFO, but especially for the bridge, which PennDOT intends to demolish asap. DCS, in conjunction with Wrought Iron Bridge Works, has presented a cost effective plan to save

January 28, 2025

Experts Have Cost Effective Plan to Save the Skinners Falls Bridge

DCS has been working with Greenworks, our environmental attorney, and Wrought Iron Bridge Works, experts in the restoration of historic bridges, to come up with a plan to save the Skinners Falls Bridge.

DCS has sent the following letter to

January 26, 2025

PennDOT Meeting on the Skinners Falls Bridge Feb. 11

As a Consulting Party on the Skinners Falls Bridge project, DCS received the following notification of a meeting to be held on February 11. As is evident in this notice, PennDOT intends to demolish the Bridge and is only looking

January 2, 2025

DCS Opposes Destruction of Historic Skinners Falls Bridge

DCS is actively and strongly defending the Skinners Falls Milanville Bridge from destruction by PennDOT, using their own data.

As detailed in our 1/2/2025 comment letter, PennDOT’s claims of rapid deterioration are not supported by the data available to …

November 23, 2024

Current DCS Legal Actions to Save the Skinners Falls Bridge

November 22, 2024 letter from DCS attorney Lauren Williams to the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation:

Good afternoon,

On behalf of Damascus Citizens for Sustainability, I am forwarding the email below and associated attachments to the Advisory Council on Historic

November 10, 2024

PennDOT Plans to Dismantle Skinners Falls Bridge

The dismantling of the Skinners Falls Bridge could be the first step in its rehabilitation or it could mean the end for this historic structure.

What are PennDOT’s plans for the Skinners Falls Bridge? Find out by attending the virtual

September 16, 2024

DCS Supports RGGI with a Powerful Amicus

RGGI (Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, pronounced Reggie) strives to use a regional approach to both control greenhouse gases (GHG) and minimize greenhouse gas emissions.  It is a multistate (10) arrangement that is a Cap and Trade, and invest, structure.  In …

May 18, 2024

Dumped On: Do YOU Live in a DEP Disposal Facility?

PRESS RELEASE   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                    Release date: May 18, 2024
Contact: B. Arrindell, dcs@DamascusCitizens.org, 845-252-6677
 

Do You Live in a DEP Disposal Facility?
237 places in PA and 8 in NY are!

Download the full press release, with references

March 1, 2024

I Tell PA Senators: Support Renewable Energy Jobs, Not LNG Exports

In January, 2024, President Biden announced a pause on export permits for liquefied natural gas (LNG). In their letter regarding this pause, published in The River Reporter on February 8, PA Senators Casey and Fetterman conclude: “If this decision puts

January 10, 2024

Should Toxic Gas Drilling Waste Be Spread on PA Roads?

Should toxic wastewater from gas drilling be spread on PA roads as a dust and snow suppressant? Members of a gas industry advisory council would like the Department of Environmental Protection to consider the practice. The DEP has yet to
January 9, 2024

David Hess Reflects on His Career and the Rise of Fracking

As secretary of environmental protection, Hess flipped the switch on Pennsylvania’s first commercial wind farm and helped avert a catastrophe at Quecreek mine. Now, his blog is essential reading for lawmakers, executives and activists on either side of the state’s
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