Dr. Peggy
@drpeggy70.bsky.social
I saw the world for what it was so I want to change it for the better. Environmental Activist PhD, registered nurse, futurist, workplace safety and health, into mentoring those who are being bullied
Between the Waters Founder and Executive Director
Between the Waters Founder and Executive Director
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Data centers use large amounts of PFAS-gas linked to cancer, birth defects, kidney disease and host of other illnesses.
Ph.D. and chemist Randi Pokladnik for @ohiocapitaljournal.com: bit.ly/3WZcLhc
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Ph.D. and chemist Randi Pokladnik for @ohiocapitaljournal.com: bit.ly/3WZcLhc
@ssteingraber1.bsky.social @drpeggy70.bsky.social @amyactonoh.bsky.social @duanepohlman.bsky.social
Ohio’s data centers will impact many Ohioans • Ohio Capital Journal
Ohio’s Appalachian region is no longer a bucolic setting of small rural communities; it is an industrial zone littered with fracking operations. Soon, central Ohio will experience the same degradation...
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October 30, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Data centers use large amounts of PFAS-gas linked to cancer, birth defects, kidney disease and host of other illnesses.
Ph.D. and chemist Randi Pokladnik for @ohiocapitaljournal.com: bit.ly/3WZcLhc
@ssteingraber1.bsky.social @drpeggy70.bsky.social @amyactonoh.bsky.social @duanepohlman.bsky.social
Ph.D. and chemist Randi Pokladnik for @ohiocapitaljournal.com: bit.ly/3WZcLhc
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Who DOES own the sun?
Don't Ohioans have the right to use solar for cheap, reliable energy-- and help save the planet in the process? @kmkowalski.bsky.social @canarymedia.com: bit.ly/4o5TRB8
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Don't Ohioans have the right to use solar for cheap, reliable energy-- and help save the planet in the process? @kmkowalski.bsky.social @canarymedia.com: bit.ly/4o5TRB8
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Why one Ohio couple is suing their city over rooftop solar fees
The city's utility says the charge is only fair to customers without solar, but the couple argues it’s an illegal penalty. The dispute echoes a nationwide…
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October 25, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Who DOES own the sun?
Don't Ohioans have the right to use solar for cheap, reliable energy-- and help save the planet in the process? @kmkowalski.bsky.social @canarymedia.com: bit.ly/4o5TRB8
@ohiocapitaljournal.com @drpeggy70.bsky.social @buckeyeenviro.bsky.social @davidpepperoh.bsky.social
Don't Ohioans have the right to use solar for cheap, reliable energy-- and help save the planet in the process? @kmkowalski.bsky.social @canarymedia.com: bit.ly/4o5TRB8
@ohiocapitaljournal.com @drpeggy70.bsky.social @buckeyeenviro.bsky.social @davidpepperoh.bsky.social
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Radiation exposure effects accumulate over time, endangering our health, soils and water.
Randi Pokladnik writes on HB 439– to prohibit gas and oil waste brine-spreading on Ohio roads. Your Ohio News: bit.ly/4ovTNdJ
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Randi Pokladnik writes on HB 439– to prohibit gas and oil waste brine-spreading on Ohio roads. Your Ohio News: bit.ly/4ovTNdJ
@twrader.bsky.social @drpeggy70.bsky.social @buckeyeenviro.bsky.social
Bill seeks to end use of radioactive brine on Ohio roadways
Writer urges support for HB 439 to stop use of oil and gas waste as deicer and dust suppressant due to health and environmental risks
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October 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Radiation exposure effects accumulate over time, endangering our health, soils and water.
Randi Pokladnik writes on HB 439– to prohibit gas and oil waste brine-spreading on Ohio roads. Your Ohio News: bit.ly/4ovTNdJ
@twrader.bsky.social @drpeggy70.bsky.social @buckeyeenviro.bsky.social
Randi Pokladnik writes on HB 439– to prohibit gas and oil waste brine-spreading on Ohio roads. Your Ohio News: bit.ly/4ovTNdJ
@twrader.bsky.social @drpeggy70.bsky.social @buckeyeenviro.bsky.social
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Dirty, flammable oil and gas pollutes the air, water and soil-- and endangers people.
Cheaper, reliable renewable energy does not.
@jobsohio.bsky.social @kentksmith.bsky.social @twrader.bsky.social @berniemoreno.bsky.social @amyactonoh.bsky.social @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social
Cheaper, reliable renewable energy does not.
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Diesel tanker blaze closes I-75 overpass in West Chester Township, officials say
>> https://www.fox19.com/2025/10/28/diesel-tanker-blaze-closes-i-75-overpass-west-chester-township-officials-say/
>> https://www.fox19.com/2025/10/28/diesel-tanker-blaze-closes-i-75-overpass-west-chester-township-officials-say/
October 29, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Dirty, flammable oil and gas pollutes the air, water and soil-- and endangers people.
Cheaper, reliable renewable energy does not.
@jobsohio.bsky.social @kentksmith.bsky.social @twrader.bsky.social @berniemoreno.bsky.social @amyactonoh.bsky.social @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social
Cheaper, reliable renewable energy does not.
@jobsohio.bsky.social @kentksmith.bsky.social @twrader.bsky.social @berniemoreno.bsky.social @amyactonoh.bsky.social @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social
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The Ohio Natural Resources Committee meets today at 9 a.m. for sponsor testimony on proposed HB 399 and 439-- anti-fracking and toxic waste brine-spreading legislation.
Watch it on The Ohio Channel: bit.ly/3W0Hwlz
@drpeggy70.bsky.social @davidpepperoh.bsky.social @ssteingraber1.bsky.social
Watch it on The Ohio Channel: bit.ly/3W0Hwlz
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October 15, 2025 at 12:24 PM
The Ohio Natural Resources Committee meets today at 9 a.m. for sponsor testimony on proposed HB 399 and 439-- anti-fracking and toxic waste brine-spreading legislation.
Watch it on The Ohio Channel: bit.ly/3W0Hwlz
@drpeggy70.bsky.social @davidpepperoh.bsky.social @ssteingraber1.bsky.social
Watch it on The Ohio Channel: bit.ly/3W0Hwlz
@drpeggy70.bsky.social @davidpepperoh.bsky.social @ssteingraber1.bsky.social
Another article about “no funds” from #FEMA in disaster. What do we pay taxes for if none of the budgeted funds come back to communities trying to rebuild?
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N.C. counties that busted budgets after Helene still waiting for FEMA to pay them back
A year after Hurricane Helene, North Carolina communities that exhausted their budgets on storm cleanup and recovery are still waiting for FEMA reimbursement.
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October 21, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Another article about “no funds” from #FEMA in disaster. What do we pay taxes for if none of the budgeted funds come back to communities trying to rebuild?
www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...
www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...
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With wildfires 🔥 increasing across the USA and Canada here is how they impact your health😱
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Wildfires and Your Health
Climate change is making wildfires worse. Our warming temperatures contribute to both the severity and duration of many wildfires, and this trend is projected to increase in the coming decades.
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August 5, 2025 at 6:07 PM
With wildfires 🔥 increasing across the USA and Canada here is how they impact your health😱
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Fellow Nurses: How Can We Help Rebuild Patients' Trust in the Healthcare System? www.medpagetoday.com/nursing/nurs...
Fellow Nurses: How Can We Help Rebuild Patients' Trust in the Healthcare System?
Join in and discuss this week's topic with your colleagues
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October 9, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Fellow Nurses: How Can We Help Rebuild Patients' Trust in the Healthcare System? www.medpagetoday.com/nursing/nurs...
After almost a year of the administration withholding much-needed resources, we must demand Trump put people over polluters. End the illegal withholding of funds for key climate agencies. #CanceltheCuts
October 9, 2025 at 3:26 PM
After almost a year of the administration withholding much-needed resources, we must demand Trump put people over polluters. End the illegal withholding of funds for key climate agencies. #CanceltheCuts
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Data centers consumed 17.4 B gallons of water in 2023; use could double by 2028.
Alliance for the Great Lakes worries U.S. states could negatively impact lakes' levels. Devin Nunnari/Burning River: bit.ly/48gTuP3
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Alliance for the Great Lakes worries U.S. states could negatively impact lakes' levels. Devin Nunnari/Burning River: bit.ly/48gTuP3
@drpeggy70.bsky.social @sarahedon.bsky.social @devinnunnari.bsky.social
Is Great Lakes Water Policy up to the Task of Protecting Lakes From A Mid-West Data Center Boom?
As data centers are rapidly being built across the Great Lakes Region to keep up with AI, water policy experts are concerned for the Great Lakes
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September 13, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Data centers consumed 17.4 B gallons of water in 2023; use could double by 2028.
Alliance for the Great Lakes worries U.S. states could negatively impact lakes' levels. Devin Nunnari/Burning River: bit.ly/48gTuP3
@drpeggy70.bsky.social @sarahedon.bsky.social @devinnunnari.bsky.social
Alliance for the Great Lakes worries U.S. states could negatively impact lakes' levels. Devin Nunnari/Burning River: bit.ly/48gTuP3
@drpeggy70.bsky.social @sarahedon.bsky.social @devinnunnari.bsky.social
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EPA surveilled #EastPalestine whistleblower as he traveled to Georgia to test for air, water, soil toxins following 2024 BioLab pool chemical explosion in Conyers. @pamelakirkland.bsky.social for GPB: bit.ly/4mhUENU
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Records reveal EPA surveillance of whistleblower who tested samples near BioLab fire
In an exclusive interview with GPB's Pamela Kirkland, environmental whistleblower Scott Smith discusses documents about suspected surveillance while he gathered soil and water samples after the BioLab...
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September 14, 2025 at 2:45 PM
EPA surveilled #EastPalestine whistleblower as he traveled to Georgia to test for air, water, soil toxins following 2024 BioLab pool chemical explosion in Conyers. @pamelakirkland.bsky.social for GPB: bit.ly/4mhUENU
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Ready to be the change you want to see in the world?
Join @saveohioparks.bsky.social and help us protect and preserve Ohio state parks and public lands from oil and natural gas fracking.
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Join @saveohioparks.bsky.social and help us protect and preserve Ohio state parks and public lands from oil and natural gas fracking.
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September 18, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Ready to be the change you want to see in the world?
Join @saveohioparks.bsky.social and help us protect and preserve Ohio state parks and public lands from oil and natural gas fracking.
Sign up now!
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Join @saveohioparks.bsky.social and help us protect and preserve Ohio state parks and public lands from oil and natural gas fracking.
Sign up now!
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Rural Chauncey in Athens County prepares for river and flash flooding as strong rains and catastrophic floods increase from climate change. FEMA maps are historic, inadequate for today. @insideclimatenews.org : bit.ly/3K0wABH
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A Rural Ohio County Embarks on a Project to Prepare for Worsening Floods - Inside Climate News
Armed with a $117,000 grant, participants are building an advanced flood model they say will improve emergency planning and identify ways to make flooding less severe.
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September 17, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Rural Chauncey in Athens County prepares for river and flash flooding as strong rains and catastrophic floods increase from climate change. FEMA maps are historic, inadequate for today. @insideclimatenews.org : bit.ly/3K0wABH
@signalohio.bsky.social @canarymedia.com @buckeyeenviro.bsky.social
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“Early in the process:" 100 citizens attend Ohio EPA
hearing in Marietta as official fields questions about yet another injection well approval for area w/
18 wells already.
Marietta Times:
bit.ly/4nfyEod
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hearing in Marietta as official fields questions about yet another injection well approval for area w/
18 wells already.
Marietta Times:
bit.ly/4nfyEod
@oilandgaswatch.bsky.social @buckeyeenviro.bsky.social @drpeggy70.bsky.social
September 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
“Early in the process:" 100 citizens attend Ohio EPA
hearing in Marietta as official fields questions about yet another injection well approval for area w/
18 wells already.
Marietta Times:
bit.ly/4nfyEod
@oilandgaswatch.bsky.social @buckeyeenviro.bsky.social @drpeggy70.bsky.social
hearing in Marietta as official fields questions about yet another injection well approval for area w/
18 wells already.
Marietta Times:
bit.ly/4nfyEod
@oilandgaswatch.bsky.social @buckeyeenviro.bsky.social @drpeggy70.bsky.social
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Lots of questions, no good answers from Ohio EPA meeting in Marietta on Class l injection well Deeprock Disposal Solutions wants. More than 200 estimated in attendance. @wtap.com: bit.ly/46xQRHm
@dispatch.com @ohiocapitaljournal.com @canarymedia.com @signalohio.bsky.social @drpeggy70.bsky.social
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Marietta citizens voiced their concerns at the Ohio EPA meeting
The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency held a meeting in the Marietta High School auditorium on Tuesday, September 9, to discuss the permit for the new injection well.
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September 11, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Lots of questions, no good answers from Ohio EPA meeting in Marietta on Class l injection well Deeprock Disposal Solutions wants. More than 200 estimated in attendance. @wtap.com: bit.ly/46xQRHm
@dispatch.com @ohiocapitaljournal.com @canarymedia.com @signalohio.bsky.social @drpeggy70.bsky.social
@dispatch.com @ohiocapitaljournal.com @canarymedia.com @signalohio.bsky.social @drpeggy70.bsky.social
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TODAY, we're launching The People Say No: Resisting Data Centers in the South, our report dedicated to exposing data center harms in the South and how our people are fighting back.
Read the full report, including case studies from 5 southern states:
bit.ly/nodatacenters
Read the full report, including case studies from 5 southern states:
bit.ly/nodatacenters
September 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
TODAY, we're launching The People Say No: Resisting Data Centers in the South, our report dedicated to exposing data center harms in the South and how our people are fighting back.
Read the full report, including case studies from 5 southern states:
bit.ly/nodatacenters
Read the full report, including case studies from 5 southern states:
bit.ly/nodatacenters
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This is what democracy looks like! A people united will never be defeated. We want federal forces out of DC NOW! #WeAreAllDC #FreeDC
September 6, 2025 at 5:16 PM
This is what democracy looks like! A people united will never be defeated. We want federal forces out of DC NOW! #WeAreAllDC #FreeDC
If a veteran is peacefully protesting #ICE, who is next? We live in a republic not anoppressive regime. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Alarm after FBI arrests US army veteran for ‘conspiracy’ over protest against Ice
Legal experts say the charges against Afghanistan war veteran Bajun Mavalwalla II mark an escalation in the Trump administration’s crackdown on first amendment rights
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September 2, 2025 at 2:03 PM
If a veteran is peacefully protesting #ICE, who is next? We live in a republic not anoppressive regime. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Colorado is first state to issue warnings on natural gas stoves for their serious health risks. Nearly 40% of American homes have them. @canarymedia.com: bit.ly/4mwgv4Q
Time to switch to electric or induction stoves, for health, safety and planet.
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Time to switch to electric or induction stoves, for health, safety and planet.
@drpeggy70.bsky.social @amyactonoh.bsky.social
Colorado now requires health warning labels on gas stoves
The state is the first to put labels on the appliances pointing consumers to evidence about the harms of cooking with gas. Appliance manufacturers are…
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August 26, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Colorado is first state to issue warnings on natural gas stoves for their serious health risks. Nearly 40% of American homes have them. @canarymedia.com: bit.ly/4mwgv4Q
Time to switch to electric or induction stoves, for health, safety and planet.
@drpeggy70.bsky.social @amyactonoh.bsky.social
Time to switch to electric or induction stoves, for health, safety and planet.
@drpeggy70.bsky.social @amyactonoh.bsky.social
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Is Cadiz, Ohio water safe to drink? @ewgofficial.bsky.social doesn't necessarily think so. bit.ly/47fpUJu
Has Ohio EPA checked Cadiz water for benzene, even PFAS? Since it's close to fracking, testing is likely needed.
@fractracker.bsky.social @sarahedon.bsky.social @drpeggy70.bsky.social
Has Ohio EPA checked Cadiz water for benzene, even PFAS? Since it's close to fracking, testing is likely needed.
@fractracker.bsky.social @sarahedon.bsky.social @drpeggy70.bsky.social
EWG's Tap Water Database: What's in Your Drinking Water?
Look up your local water system to find out which pollutants might be of concern, and find suggestions on the best kinds of home filters to remove those chemicals.
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August 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Is Cadiz, Ohio water safe to drink? @ewgofficial.bsky.social doesn't necessarily think so. bit.ly/47fpUJu
Has Ohio EPA checked Cadiz water for benzene, even PFAS? Since it's close to fracking, testing is likely needed.
@fractracker.bsky.social @sarahedon.bsky.social @drpeggy70.bsky.social
Has Ohio EPA checked Cadiz water for benzene, even PFAS? Since it's close to fracking, testing is likely needed.
@fractracker.bsky.social @sarahedon.bsky.social @drpeggy70.bsky.social
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The EPA may roll back a key climate health protection. The Endangerment Finding reflects what health pros see every day: pollution harms health
We must strengthen, not weaken, safeguards.
We stand in opposition.
Read the full statement ➡️ us.noharm.org/news/health-...
#ClimateHealth #EPA
We must strengthen, not weaken, safeguards.
We stand in opposition.
Read the full statement ➡️ us.noharm.org/news/health-...
#ClimateHealth #EPA
July 29, 2025 at 5:52 PM
The EPA may roll back a key climate health protection. The Endangerment Finding reflects what health pros see every day: pollution harms health
We must strengthen, not weaken, safeguards.
We stand in opposition.
Read the full statement ➡️ us.noharm.org/news/health-...
#ClimateHealth #EPA
We must strengthen, not weaken, safeguards.
We stand in opposition.
Read the full statement ➡️ us.noharm.org/news/health-...
#ClimateHealth #EPA
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200 commenters on EPA endangerment clause overwhelmingly support keeping it. If Trump admin. nixes it anyway, it may go to court. @insideclimatenews.org: bit.ly/4lJei58
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Commenters Decry Proposed Repeal of Endangerment Finding in First Day of Public Hearings - Inside Climate News
Out of roughly 200 people who testified on Tuesday, Inside Climate News counted fewer than ten who spoke in favor of the EPA’s move.
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August 23, 2025 at 1:02 PM
200 commenters on EPA endangerment clause overwhelmingly support keeping it. If Trump admin. nixes it anyway, it may go to court. @insideclimatenews.org: bit.ly/4lJei58
@fractracker.bsky.social @drpeggy70.bsky.social @sarahedon.bsky.social
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We know that health starts with what's on our plates. This new video shows how health care institutions are using food procurement as a powerful tool for community health.
From Farm to Fork: Reimagining How Local Food Reaches Our Plates
YouTube video by The Common Market
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July 31, 2025 at 3:24 PM
We know that health starts with what's on our plates. This new video shows how health care institutions are using food procurement as a powerful tool for community health.