Global warming is the most pressing environmental problem we face today, and its potential impacts on Pennsylvania and the entire globe are numerous. In Pennsylvania specifically, global warming could mean more heat-related deaths in urban areas like Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, more severe weather and flooding, more unhealthy air days, and more threatened species—everything from songbirds to rainbow trout—due to changing habitats.
Thankfully, by sharply reducing global warming pollution in Pennsylvania and across the country, we can avoid the worst effects of global warming. And we have the policies and technologies to accomplish these pollution reductions. Specifically, PennEnvironment is working at the state and national level to implement several policy solutions:
- Increasing support for clean, renewable energy sources like wind and solar power, in order to decrease our demand on coal-fired power plants.
- Making our homes, businesses, and common products use less energy through energy efficiency improvements.
- Making our cars pollute less through available clean-car technologies.
- Helping people to drive less by increasing support for our public transportation systems.
- Making our cars and trucks go farther on a gallon of gas by increasing federal gas mileage standards.
