Action Items
Link to Legislators Contact Information
October 5, 2026
Background
The Tech industry is rapidly planning and developing hyperscale data centers across the U.S. In PA alone, 146 centers are in the planning stage. Locally, two data centers have been in the news: one in Springdale and one in Upper Burrell, home to the largest data center in Pennsylvania. It sits on 1395 acres of land. Local and state governments have been scrambling to catch up to this rapid proliferation.
Governor Shapiro is credited with creating strong regulations for data centers. His Executive Order was a big step forward.
However, the regulations do not fully meet the needs of Southwestern PA. It requires only 10% of the energy source to come from green energy; 90% will come from fracking. We can not handle more fracking in our area. We are struggling with our air and water quality. Too many wells are leaking methane. Fracking results in large amounts of unusable wastewater. Beyond environmental and health issues, there is also a financial concern. Our Legislature should reverse its provision in Act 25 of 2021 that excludes data centers from sales tax. Our tax revenue should not be reduced just to benefit the multi-billion-dollar industry.
For information on data center guidelines, Google; Pennsylvania Data Center Task Force Advocates, Stop Data Centers Coalition, and Physicians for Social Responsibility.
(You can use the message below as-is, modify it, or create your own message on this topic. A message in your own words is the most effective.)
Action and Script:
The rapid proliferation of data centers is an assault on our basic needs of land, water, air, electricity, and a livable planet. Joining with commissioners in other Southwestern Pennsylvania counties and local municipal commissioners may give us more power and added ability to tighten regulations for data centers at the local and state level. Southwestern PA has been a dumping ground for industrial pollutants and resource extraction long enough. Time for a change.
Send/Call:
Westmoreland County Commissioners, 2 N Main St., Suite 101, Greensburg, PA 15601 — 724-830-3106.
or
Sean Kertes, Chair skertes@co.westmoreland.pa.us
Douglas W Chew, Vice Chair dchew@co.westmoreland.pa.us
Ted Kopas, Sec tkopas@co.westmoreland.pa.us
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September 28, 2026
Background
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s tenure as Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) has been marked by blatant attacks on science and public health. He has damaged our nation’s scientific research and public health infrastructure, setting us back decades. Under his leadership:
- Biomedical research through the NIH has stalled. The largest NIH study, focused on women’s health issues, has been canceled, and promising mRNA vaccination research has been defunded.
- Entire HHS agencies have been gutted or restructured, causing chaos and endangering our ability to monitor and respond to emerging public health threats.
- Outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases like measles have surged amid Kennedy’s politicization of the CDC to promote vaccine misinformation and push baseless changes to childhood vaccination schedules. Citizens are dying!
Kennedy has promoted racist, ableist misinformation about developmental conditions like ADHD and autism and threatened medications for managing these conditions.
Action:
Kennedy is a THREAT to scientific integrity and public health. Congress must hold him accountable for his careless statements and actions that endanger the health and safety of every American!
He MUST BE IMPEACHED!
Call/write/email our lawmakers using the script below and tell them their inaction is unacceptable.
Script: (CAN ALSO USE FOR EMAIL/LETTER)
Hi.
My name is (NAME), and I am a constituent from (LOCATION). I am calling to express my outrage over RFK’s continuous attacks on public health and critical scientific research. His dangerous and continued denial and baseless claims about autism put countless lives at risk. I ask that you move to impeach him as secretary.
Thank you for your time.
Send/Call:
Representative Guy Reschenthaler
202-225-2065
www.reschenthaler.house.gov/contact/email-me
2209 Rayburn House Office Bidg., Washington D.C. 20515
OR
Representative Summer Lee, 202-225-2135https://summerlee.house.gov/contact/
2437 Rayburn House Office Bldg., Washington D.C. 20515
Senator David H. McCormick
202-224-6324
www.mccormick.senate.gov>share-your-opinion
702 Hart Office Bldg, Washington D.C. 20510
Senator John Fetterman
202-224-4254
www.fetterman.senate.gov/contact
142 Russell Senate Office Bldg., Washington D.C. 20510
September 21, 2026
Issue: Artificial Intelligence (AI)
This Action Item comes via Jess Craven's Chop Wood, Carry Water and Five Calls.
Background
The rapid development of AI in recent years has already had a profound impact on our country. Growing concerns about everything from power-hungry AI data centers putting a strain on electrical grids and driving up energy costs to fears about bioweapons and AI threats to humanity loom large over the American public. New reports from credible whistleblowers say that AI could drive humans to extinction within years. Is it likely? We just don’t know. Should we make sure it can’t happen? ABSOLUTELY.
Action:
Call/write/email our lawmakers using the script below and tell them their inaction is unacceptable.
Script: (CAN ALSO USE FOR EMAIL/LETTER)
Hi. I am a constituent calling from zip code and my name is _________. I am deeply alarmed by the growing claims that unchecked AI models could destroy the world and humanity by the decade’s end. Congress needs to act with urgency. Americans are sick and tired of watching lawmakers focus on the wrong things while this existential threat grows bigger and bigger. We need guardrails around AI, a data center moratorium, a Kill Switch bill, and more. Most of all, we need lawmakers with the courage and independence to stand up to big tech and act - NOW. Please be one of them. There is no time to waste. Thank you.
Send/Call:
Representative Guy Reschenthaler
202-225-2065
www.reschenthaler.house.gov/contact/email-me
2209 Rayburn House Office Bidg., Washington D.C. 20515
Senator David H. McCormick
202-224-6324
www.mccormick.senate.gov>share-your-opinion
702 Hart Office Bldg, Washington D.C. 20510
Senator John Fetterman
202-224-4254
www.fetterman.senate.gov/contact
142 Russell Senate Office Bldg., Washington D.C. 20510
September 14, 2026
Issue:
Background
House and Senate Republicans are trying to pass the "Take Care of America's Veterans Act," a massive bill that includes up to $57 billion in cuts over ten years affecting millions of current and future veterans. Many of these provisions have broad support and Veterans organizations largely support many of the benefits contained in TCAVA. The major controversy is how Congress proposes to pay for some of them. They disagree over whether projected reductions in disability compensation for veterans with tinnitus and sleep apnea should be used to help pay for those benefits.
Ringing ears from weapon fire and shop noise. Sleep apnea from blast exposure and burn pits. These are real injuries, from real service.
In addition, the same bill gives mortgage lenders new ways to gouge veterans trying to buy a home, lines the pockets of private insurance companies, ignores individual medical records while making disability ratings determinations, and more.
Veterans earned these benefits through their service to our country. We cannot stay silent while politicians hide their betrayal in this bill.
Action:
Send a letter/email or call members of Congress. Tell them this bill insults anyone who's ever worn the uniform, and it cannot stand. As VFW National Commander, Carol Whitmore, explained, "veterans’ benefits are an earned obligation of the nation."
Script: (CAN ALSO USE FOR EMAIL/LETTER)
As your constituent, I am writing to urge you to oppose the Take Care of America’s Veterans Act. This bill is being promoted as a benefit to veterans, but it pays for itself by cutting the earned disability compensation of the people who served. And the bill does not stop there. This bill nearly triples a VA home loan fee, adding thousands of dollars to the cost of buying a home for the veterans this benefit was created to serve. Congress and this country made a promise to those who served. This bill breaks the promise. We must stand with our veterans.
Send/Call:
Representative Guy Reschenthaler
202-225-2065
www.reschenthaler.house.gov/contact/email-me
2209 Rayburn House Office Bidg., Washington D.C. 20515
Senator David H. McCormick
202-224-6324
www.mccormick.senate.gov>share-your-opinion
702 Hart Office Bldg, Washington D.C. 20510
Senator John Fetterman
202-224-4254
www.fetterman.senate.gov/contact
142 Russell Senate Office Bldg., Washington D.C. 20510
September 7, 2026
Issue: Flock Cameras
Background
With nearly 100,000 cameras in 49 states, there is a very good chance that Flock has captured your license plate. The surveillance system collects tens of billions of data points, allowing police to search for specific license plates, vehicle makes and models, and distinctive markings such as bumper stickers. The company has contracts with roughly 40 percent of all law enforcement agencies in the United States. But at least 50 law enforcement employees nationwide have been put on leave, fired, arrested, and/or convicted of misusing Flock.
In Wisconsin, a police officer is accused of using Flock to check whether his ex-girlfriend had gone to an abortion clinic. In Kansas, a police chief searched for his ex-girlfriend’s car 164 times and her new boyfriend's 64 times over a few months; he eventually accosted her outside the city limits while she was with another man. And in California, a Riverside County sheriff's deputy used Flock to stalk his former fiancée.
These cases are known only because of public reporting, and in many, the officers involved didn’t face criminal charges. It’s impossible to know how many instances have never been reported or even identified.
State attorneys general must take this threat to civil rights seriously and open investigations to uncover abuse and hold law enforcement officials accountable.
Action:
Contact the PA Attorney General to investigate local law enforcement agencies for misuse of Flock surveillance cameras on Americans and demand accountability.
Script: (CAN ALSO USE FOR EMAIL/LETTER)
At least 50 employees of law enforcement agencies nationwide have been put on leave, fired, arrested, and/or convicted of misusing Flock against Americans who have committed no crime.
Many cases involve stalking and harassment of former wives and girlfriends.
We know about these cases only because of public reporting, and in many of them the law enforcement involved didn’t face criminal charges. It’s impossible to know how many instances have never been reported or even identified.
It’s time for our state to take this threat to civil rights seriously and open investigations to uncover abuse and hold law enforcement agencies accountable.
As the top law enforcement official in our state, you must act:
Find out how, when, and where local law enforcement agencies are misusing Flock surveillance data, and hold abusers of the network accountable now.
Send/Call:
David W. Sunday
PA Office of Attorney General
16th Floor, Strawberry Square
Harrisburg, PA 17120
717-787-3391