Join the ever growing number of groups in Southwestern PA whose work includes preventing, mitigating, or adapting to climate change. If you would like to be added to this page please contact us.
Action Housing ACTION-Housing, Inc. is one of the largest weatherization providers in Pennsylvania. In cooperation with the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development, ACTION has operated the Weatherization Assistance Program for the City of Pittsburgh, Allegheny (including Mon Valley), Washington, and Greene Counties for 25+ years.
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The Allegheny Front |
Allegheny Land Trust |
Appalachian Voices |
A-Z Impacts of Plastic |
Beaver Peace Links |
Better Path Coalition |
Black Environmental Collective |
Breathe Project |
Cancer & Environment Network of SWPA Our vision is a future free of cancer, and an economy that doesn’t rely on hazardous materials and technologies, but instead on approaches like green chemistry and product design that emulates ideas found in nature. For Southwestern Pennsylvania, this is a future in which all people have secure well-paying jobs that do not make them sick, and live in healthy homes in healthy neighborhoods, without racial disparities in exposure to toxics and in cancer rates.
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The Center for Coalfield Justice |
Citizen’s Climate Lobby Pittsburgh |
Citizens’ Environmental Association of the Slippery Rock Area (CEASRA) |
Clean Air Council Clean Air Council is a member-supported environmental organization serving the Mid-Atlantic Region. The Council is dedicated to protecting and defending everyone’s right to a healthy environment. The Council works through a broad array of related sustainability and public health initiatives, using public education, community action, government oversight, and enforcement of environmental laws. The CAC launched the Southwest Pennsylvania Neighbors for Clean Air (Groups of Ten), initiative in 2018.
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Clean Water Action PA |
Climate Solutions in PA |
Communitopia |
Concerned Health Professionals of PA |
Concerned Residents of West Deer (CROWD) |
Conservation Voters of PA |
Creatives for Climate |
Earthworks Earthworks is a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting communities and the environment from the adverse impacts of mineral and energy development while promoting sustainable solutions. Earthworks stands for clean air, water and land, healthy communities, and corporate accountability. We work for solutions that protect both the Earth’s resources and our communities.
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Energy Innovation Center |
Environmental Health News Pittsburgh |
Environmental Integrity Project |
Equitable & Just Greater Pittsburgh (EJGP) Equitable and Just Greater Pittsburgh (EJGP) is a cross-issue, cross-neighborhood network of over 125 different organizations, community groups, and residents working to secure an equitable and just Greater Pittsburgh. We root this work in the realities and threats that COVID-19, environmental degradation, and climate change present to the overburdened and under-resourced populations of Allegheny County and beyond.
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XR |
Fossil Free Pitt Coalition |
Foundation for Sustainable Forests The Foundation for Sustainable Forests is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit land trust and outreach organization dedicated to protecting the working forests of Pennsylvania, New York and beyond.
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FreshWater Accountability Project |
Garfield Community Farm |
Green Drinks Pittsburgh |
Grounded Strategies |
Grow Pittsburgh |
Heartwood Forest Council |
Hilltop Urban Farm |
IOBY |
Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership The Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership is a collaborative effort of national, regional, state, and local agencies, conservation organizations, outdoors enthusiasts, businesses, and citizens committed to improving Pennsylvania's communities, economy, and ecology. The Partnership aims to facilitate the planting of 10 million new trees in priority landscapes in Pennsylvania by the end of 2025 through expansive and collaborative partnerships, assistance, and inspiration.
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Marcellus Outreach Butler |
MarchOnHarrisburg |
Moms Clean Air Force |
Mountain Watershed Association –Youghiogheny Riverkeeper MWA has been in existence since 1994, and currently has over 2,000 members and supporters. In 2003, we partnered with the Waterkeeper Alliance to become home of the Youghiogheny Riverkeeper. |
Nature Abounds |
New Voices Pittsburgh |
North Braddock Residents For Our Future |
Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition (OVEC) |
OnePA |
PA Environment Digest Blog An update on environmental issues in Pennsylvania, edited by David E. Hess, former Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.
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PASUP (Pittsburghers Against Single-Use Plastic) |
PennFuture |
Pennsylvania Alliance for Clean Water and Air |
Pennsylvania Conservative Energy Forum (PennCEF) |
Pennsylvania Environmental Resource Consortium (PERC) |
Pennsylvanians Against Fracking |
Philadelphia Green Capital Corp. The Philadelphia Green Capital Corp. connects projects to capital (public, private, and philanthropic) to drive a robust, equitable clean energy market in Philadelphia, support the Philadelphia Energy Authority, and respond to the local challenges of climate change.
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Pittsburghers For Public Transit |
Pittsburgh Vegan Society |
Post-Landfill Action Network (PLAN) |
Protect Northern PA Protect Northern PA is an alliance of community members, environmental groups, civic organizations, and local businesses formed to critically examine potential air, water, public health, safety, and climate threats from the natural gas industry in the Marcellus Shale region of Pennsylvania. We share a concern that a gas-related industrial buildout will negatively and irreversibly change the environment and character of the region.
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Protect Our Water, Heritage, Rights (POWHR) |
Public Herald |
Putting Down Roots Information bringing people together… Maren's list of environmental, cultural, and social justice events in and around Pittsburgh.
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Rail Pollution Protection Pittsburgh Rail Pollution Protection Pittsburgh (RP3) is a group of Pittsburgh residents committed to addressing the risk and negative impacts of rail proliferation where it conflicts with urban health, sustainability, and personal well-being.
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Recycle This Pittsburgh There are many resources for Pittsburghers to find out general information about recycling. Our goal is to provide very specific information to help you understand if a particular item you have is recyclable or not, and how to give it the best chance of not ending up in a landfill.
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Reimagine Appalachia Reimagine Appalachia was born out of a broad recognition that the economy has not been working for most people and places in the Ohio River Valley. In response, a diverse set of economic, environmental and community leaders, and grassroots organizations, came together to find common ground and build the future we want to see—a 21st century economy that’s good for workers, communities, and the environment.
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Reimagined Recycling |
ReImagine the Turtle Creek Watershed & Airshed Communities |
River Valley Organizing |
Save Our Streams PA |
Solbridge Energy Advisors |
SUCCEED SUCCEED – the Summer Center for Climate, Energy, and Environmental Decision Making – was founded in 2011 by Carnegie Mellon University’s Center for Climate and Energy Decision Making. In non-COVID years, SUCCEED typically includes two programs: a free 5-day summer program for rising 10th and 11th graders and a 2-day workshop for teachers.
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Sustainable Monroeville |
SWPA Grassroots Town Halls We are a group of Allegheny County grassroots organizations that advocate for clean air and who, with the help of the Breathe Project, organize a series of virtual town halls as part of an advocacy campaign seeking redress for the ongoing air pollution that erodes the quality of life in our region. We seek to assemble a racially, economically and geographically diverse coalition of residents and elected officials for this effort.
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Thomas Merton Center |
Three Rivers Waterkeeper |
Transit for All PA! Transit for all PA! is an emerging statewide coalition of transit riders, transit workers, and transit-supportive organizations and businesses. Together, we are working to expand Pennsylvania’s public transit systems to grow our economy and connect more Pennsylvanians to jobs, healthcare, and essential needs.
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University of Pittsburgh Office of Sustainability The University of Pittsburgh’s Office of Sustainability was established in July 2018 to centralize campus-wide sustainability activities, strategies, and partnerships. Led by Director of Sustainability, Dr. Aurora Sharrard, the Office of Sustainability leads University-wide sustainability strategy, activities, policies, collaborations, & partnerships to advance the Pitt Sustainability Plan, which includes 61 measurable goals across stewardship, exploration, community, and culture.
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Upstream |
Water Walks |
Windstax |
ZeroFossil |
Allegheny CleanWays |
Allegheny Defense Project |
Allegheny Group of Sierra Club |
All Together Now PA We unite Pennsylvania’s rural and urban communities to build just, regenerative, and resilient regional economies that are self-reliant in basic needs, in order to increase community wealth and equity, reduce and sequester carbons, and prepare for climate change.
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Appalachian Youth Climate Coalition |
BC MAC Formed in 2011 by a band of citizens who had learned about threats to the Ambridge Reservoir posed by fracking, the Beaver County Marcellus Awareness Community (BCMAC) would, in the next six years, gather more than 4,000 signatures on a petition to protect the reservoir; share literature and talk with thousands of local residents at fairs and festivals; distribute anti-fracking yard signs; present petitions and letters to state DEP and congressional representatives; host five community forums and inform multiple municipal councils on drilling threats to water supplies; persuade two municipalities to adopt source water protection plans; write letters to the editor protesting fracking’s expansion and plans for Shell's ethane cracker; testify at hearings on air and water permits for the cracker; and organize two programs on the cracker’s potential to impact citizens' air, water, health, and safety. In 2017, BCMAC co-sponsored three Re-Imagine! Beaver County programs for mobilizing citizens to recruit non-fossil-fuel businesses and industries to the region.
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Berks Gas Truth |
Black Appalachian Coalition (BLAC) |
Braddock Inclusion Project |
Buckeye Environmental Network Buckeye Environmental Network (BEN), formerly Buckeye Forest Council (BFC), works to support grassroots environmental and environmental justice organizing and to protect Ohio’s native forests. Working with grassroots community groups, we provide activists the tools and support needed to mobilize their communities for effective action against the harms caused by corporate assaults, aided as these assaults are by state and federal government agencies. We foster public pressure on government and corporations to protect communities and Ohio’s environment. Through community action and ecological protection, we seek fundamental changes that improve our relationships with each other and the land.
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CELDF |
Chesapeake Bay Foundation |
Citizens Coal Council |
Citizens to Protect Oakmont |
Clean Power PA The Clean Power PA Coalition is a group of more than 40 clean energy, business, faith, and community leaders committed to protecting Pennsylvania’s environment and powering its economy through clean energy. Pennsylvania is poised to become a leader in renewable energy, creating thousands of sustainable jobs, reducing carbon pollution, and keeping our air and water clean in the process. PA Clean Energy Initiative, through its campaign Clean Power PA, advocates for the policies and investments that can bring our clean energy future to fruition.
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Climate Reality SW PA |
Communities First – Sewickley Valley |
The Compost People |
Concerned Ohio River Residents |
Congress of Neighboring Communities (CONNECT) |
CREATE Lab |
Dianne’s Dishware |
Environmental Coordination Services and Recycling, Inc (ECS&R) |
E2 (Environmental Entrepreneurs) E2 (Environmental Entrepreneurs) is a national, nonpartisan group of business leaders, investors, and professionals from every sector of the economy who advocate for smart policies that are good for the economy and good for the environment. Since 2002, E2 has been leading the charge in the Northeast on an ambitious set of issues, ranging from implementation of New York State Energy Plan’s Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) to supporting Executive Order 2019-1 in Pennsylvania which allows the state to join its neighbors in cutting carbon pollution from power plants by participating in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.
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Environmental Health Project (EHP) |
The Environmental Justice Committee of the Thomas Merton Center |
Evangelical Environmental Network (EEN) |
Fair Shake Environmental Legal Services |
Foundation for Pennsylvania Watersheds (FPW) The Foundation for Pennsylvania Watersheds (FPW) is a grant-making foundation that invests in local efforts to protect healthy natural streams, clean-up and restore degraded streams, and advocate for Pennsylvania’s extensive water resources.
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FrackCheckWV If Marcellus Shale gas drilling is conducted in West Virginia, to ensure it is conducted responsibly and safely, this site has been designed to provides readers with information to help influence public policy decisions on the issue.
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Free the Planet (FTP) |
Fridays for Future PGH |
Green Building Alliance (GBA) |
Green Sanctuary Program Unitarian Universalist Faithful Response calls us to bring our individual and collective gifts together to act with bold, inspiring, collaborative, networked, and effective leadership to ensure a livable world for all descendants and create climate justice with those who are systemically oppressed. Green Sanctuary provides structure, leadership and support, in broad collaboration, for the UU faith community to engage in an ambitious environmental and climate justice movement that seeks to live fully our seventh and eighth principles and achieve our vision of a sustainable and just world for all.
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Group Against Smog and Pollution (GASP) |
Halt the Harm |
Higher Education Climate Consortium (HECC) MISSION: Actively collaborate to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from Pittsburgh’s higher education institutions.VISION: Strengthen the Pittsburgh region’s position as a leader in climate action by achieving carbon neutrality. |
Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) |
Keystone Energy Efficiency Alliance (KEEA) The Energy Efficiency Alliance is a non-profit, tax-exempt 501(c)3 corporation dedicated to advancing energy efficiency in the Mid-Atlantic through education and awareness. KEEA is Pennsylvania’s trade association for the energy efficiency industry.
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LeboGreen |
Marcellus Protest |
Mobilfy Southwestern Pennsylvania Mobilify is designed to be the consistent, comprehensive, cross-sector, community-centric ringleader that has been missing from our region’s transportation transformation efforts. It aims to reshape our systems for the 21st Century and correct the sins of 20th, ensuring greater economic mobility through attractive, affordable choices beyond the private automobile and connecting them to equitable community and economic (re)development initiatives. Mobilify will also help advance an emerging Southwestern PA regional transit vision and collaborate with regional leadership.
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The Mon Water Project (MWP) |
The Natural History Museum (NHM) |
New Sun Rising |
NoPetroPA While Pittsburgh claims to be a “Most Livable City,” that status could be put at risk by a new petrochemical hub seeking to grow up all around it. If “the new Cancer Alley” is not your idea of a healthy place to call home, please speak up and join our cause! We believe that there are many other viable ways to bring jobs and economic vitality to Southwestern Pennsylvania that DON’T require us tolerate the continuing pollution of our air and water. This site is filled with resources and opportunities to get involved, so have a look around! We look forward to seeing you soon.
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Ohio River Valley Institute |
Ohio Valley Environmental Resistance (OVER) |
PA Climate Equity Table We’re building power in communities across Pennsylvania that have been impacted by climate and environmental injustice.
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PA Solar Center |
PennEnvironment |
Pennsylvania Action on Climate Pennsylvania Action on Climate is committed to forcing the encounter with corrupt politicians, lobbyists, and their billionaire backers who fuel ecological devastation in Pennsylvania. We conduct nonviolent direct action trainings, and we carry out nonviolent direct actions to demand an end to the bribery that is driving our collective ecocide and polluting us into extinction.
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Pennsylvania Climate Convergence |
Pennsylvania Environmental Defense Foundation (PEDF) |
Pennsylvania Forest Coalition The Pennsylvania Forest Coalition is a unique alliance of 4,115 hunters, hikers, anglers, landowners, wildlife-watchers, paddlers, bikers, churches and conservation groups who are united in our concern for the stewardship of our public lands. We link these groups together via timely mailings on important environmental issues.
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People Over Petro (POPCO) |
Phipps Conservatory For the past 125 years, Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens has excelled in showcasing beauty. Today, this history of excellence serves as a platform to demonstrate that people, plants, health, planet and beauty are inextricably interconnected, and that sustainable action – from the construction of the world’s greenest building to the planting of a raised-bed vegetable garden in a backyard – is the key to ensuring that these critical interconnections are harmonious, mutually beneficial, healthy and preserved for future generations.
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Pittsburgh Green New Deal |
Pittsburgh Water Collaboratory |
Protect Elizabeth Township |
Protect Our Children |
Protect PT |
PublicSource PublicSource is the only nonprofit digital-first news organization that lives up to its mission of delivering public-service reporting and analysis in the Pittsburgh region. We are local. We believe in journalism as a public service. We tell stories for a better Pittsburgh.
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Radical Support Collective |
Rebuilding Together Pittsburgh Rebuilding Together Pittsburgh rebuilds homes for low-income individuals with an emphasis on seniors, veterans, and persons with disabilities. The lasting impact of our work is homeowners living safe and healthy lives in stabilized, revitalized neighborhoods. Through our home repair work, case management, and partnerships with valued service agencies throughout Allegheny County, we improve the daily quality of life for our neighbors in need. Our construction professionals provide qualifying individuals with home rehabilitations, energy efficiency upgrades, and safe and healthy housing improvements at no cost to the homeowner.
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The Refillery The Refillery x The Local Instead's mission is to reduce single-use plastic and single-use packaging by making reusing & refilling easy, accessible, and affordable. We want to help Pittsburgh reduce our eco-impact by curating locally, ethically, and sustainably made personal care and home cleaning products and refillables. You can find us in Squirrel Hill at 1931 Murray Ave. We are in the same block as Giant Eagle.
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Re-imagine Beaver County |
ReImagineJobs Showcase Reimagine the next chapter of our region's future. Welcome to our showcase of local businesses, industries, and organizations that are hiring and fueling the economic development in Southwestern PA and beyond. It is time to learn about sustainable economic development.
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Renewables Work for PA Coalition (RW4PA) Renewables Work for PA is a coalition of 100+ renewable businesses advocating for Pennsylvania to modernize its Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards by increasing the percentages of renewable energy.
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Save Ohio Parks |
Solar United Neighbors |
State Impact Pennsylvania |
Sunrise Movement Pittsburgh |
Sustainable Pittsburgh |
Third Act Pennsylvania Working Group The mission of Third Act connects our generation of 60+ Pennsylvanians with progressives of all ages. As founder Bill McKibben recently explained, earthlings really do have a chance to avert the worst of global warming. |
Three Rivers Rising Tide |
TIAA-Divest! |
Tree Pittsburgh |
Upper Burrell Citizens Against Marcellus Pollution (CAMP) |
Valley Clean Air Now (VCAN) |
Westmoreland Marcellus Citizens’ Group |
Women for a Healthy Environment |
350 Pittsburgh And, finally, yours truly, 350 Pittsburgh is part of an international grassroots movement taking action to end reliance on the fossil-based economy, insure a just transition to a renewable energy economy, and empower people in creating a healthy, equitable global ecosystem for all communities in SW PA and all earth’s inhabitants for generations to come. We are a Pittsburgh-based all volunteer non-profit, part of the 350.org international climate movement, and are a project of the Thomas Merton Center. |












































































































































































