Working for a healthier & safer environment with renewable energy, energy efficiency and protected forests. We can do this!
Madison, WI
Joined September 2012
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For climate security, the #USA must act swiftly to protect the remaining mature and old growth trees - our #ClimateForests.
We lose the carbon stored by these forests when they're logged, along with a lot else.
I'm in the video, but please watch anyway!
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Andy Olsen ELPC retweeted
Rural #cleanenergy investments deliver lower energy costs and waste, better margins, and a stronger American economy.
118 groups — from ag to clean energy — are urging Congress to fund rural clean energy. Let’s keep this program growing. elpc.org/news/118-stakeholde…
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“This isn’t cutting red tape; it’s adding more,” said ELPC's Andy Olsen. @USDA leaving thousands still in limbo, with completed projects unpaid and future plans stalled.floodlightnews.org/farmers-i…
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Victory for Chicagoans & all who care about protecting healthy communities & #LakeMichigan!
ELPC has been honored to represent Alliance of the Southeast & @FOTPChicago to stop the toxic dump plan for lakefront.
Thank you @GovPritzker @KwameRaoul & @ILEPA
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“It’s really counterproductive to go after a program that does so much to help farmers bring down their costs. This is something that everybody agrees on. It primarily benefits Republican districts,” said Andy Olsen (@AndyOELPC), a senior policy advocate at @ELPCenter.
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Going after programs that help farmers and rural businesses cut costs makes no sense.
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Federal employees, please speak up about corruption you encounter. You can do so here.
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Sure, it's a wonderful planet that gives us life.
But, is taking care of it so it can keep taking care of us just too much bother?
Unfortunately preventing the total collapse of the only available place in the universe capable of sustaining human life was expensive in terms of our made-up points system, so those who proposed that we should pay the cost anyway were extreme radicals.
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Rural #Wisconsin benefitting from federal clean energy investments that cut carbon pollution and build up our rural communities.
We need more of this. Much more. #REAP
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Citizen detective @DavidZaber finds, documents, and exposes pollution of a nature preserve in Homewood, Illinois.
Along with official neglect by local and state officials.
@ILEPA, it's time to pay attention!
chicago.suntimes.com/the-wat…
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It's a very worthwhile video! Take it from someone who appears in it!
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Andy Olsen ELPC retweeted
Kroger now admits it jacked up milk and egg prices above inflation.
Millions of shoppers had no choice but to accept it.
This is what happens when five companies dominate over 60% of American grocery sales.
Minimal competition means maximized price gouging.
The NOGA is a start.
But for the sake of climate security, clean water and biodiversity we must act stronger to protect our remaining public mature and old growth forests.
Please take action.
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'We must prioritize conserving and expanding our mature and old-growth forests because they “are critically important for slowing climate change.”
The United States Forest Service (USFS), however, isn’t doing enough to protect these forests.'
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Andy Olsen ELPC retweeted
This op-ed is worth a read.
"Why does MidAmerican Energy want to criminalize homelessness? You would think that a utility company would be utilitarian in its work, seeking the greatest good for the greatest number of people, but clearly, this isn't the case for MidAmerican." #CleanUpMidAm bit.ly/3Md0EI3
An absurd situation where trees Rogue River-Siskiyou NF plans to harvest old growth trees that survived the Klondike fire, #Oregon.
@forestservice is aggressively logging old growth and mature trees across the country - even as they plan to
@RRSNF cancel Secret timber sale!
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It's really strange to see an agency like the @forestservice, which claims to act based on science, deny the science that tells us we should conserve mature and old-growth trees.
@usfs_r9 and @CNNF002, esp, prioritize logging MOG over climate action.
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Can you have too much fun? It's worth trying!
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