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Abusing Planet Earth – December 2017

A sampling of assaults on the environment Funding international research on climate change President Trump’s 2018 budget would end funding for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The IPCC is the international body established in 1988 to provide policymakers

Posted in Environment, News and Alerts

SIAN Hosts Winter Get-Together

On November 29 over 70 SIAN members met at the Oyster Catcher Community Center to hear about SIAN activities and socialize with fellow members.

Posted in News and Alerts

Environment Committee News Alert: President Trump Decimates Two National Monuments

On December 4th President Trump announced that he is drastically reducing the size of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments in Utah.

Posted in Environment, News and Alerts

Women’s Reproductive Rights News Alert: Planned Parenthood purchases West Ashley facility

Planned Parenthood has purchased the Charleston Women’s Medical Center in West Ashley, a facility that has been the only place in the area where a woman could seek an elective abortion.

Posted in News and Alerts, Women's Reproductive Rights

Tax bills lay the groundwork for an outright ban on abortion

Sneaking pet provisions into unrelated legislation in hopes that these will slip through unnoticed is nothing new. But the latest such move is one for the books: using the tax code to define when life begins and thus set a precedent to overturn Roe v Wade. 

Posted in News and Alerts, Women's Reproductive Rights