Clean Water Action Pennsylvania: Environmental Justice Bike-a-Thon

Please support us in a cause that truly matters. Clean Water Action’s 50-mile combined bike ride and fundraising event will raise awareness of environmental justice issues in Pennsylvania. This event also supports our work to embrace and empower residents in underserved communities of color who are disproportionately burdened with adverse environmental impacts to foster a healthy environment where they live.

The Pennsylvania Bike-a-Thon for Environmental Justice will be a two-day event. On Saturday, October 28, bikers will travel a loop on the Harrisburg Capital Area Greenbelt, beginning and ending at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial. The ride will offer a contrasting journey through the streets that have huge mansions, underserved communities and off-road, wooded trails with lots of trees, and a creek on the Susquehanna River. It will also offer a view of the Harrisburg Incinerator smoke stack located in the Susquehanna Resource Management Complex in the last half mile of the trip.

The next Saturday, November 4th bikers will assemble near the site of the Nicetown Combined Heat & Power plant and peddle to the Falls Bridge and Schuylkill River Trail to South West Philly pass the junkyard and tire dumps in the neighborhoods of Kingsessing and Elmwood and to Eastwick, the site of the Clearview Landfill and chronic flooding. The trip will end in the City of Chester passing the proposed site of the proposed Penn LNP and the Chester Waste to Energy Incinerator.

Both trips will feature stops and brief presentations led by Maurice Sampson at Environmental Justice locations. Sampson will be the Bike-a-Thon lead rider on both days, has been an environmental advocate for 52 years, and is currently the Eastern PA Director of Clean Water Action.

Sign up now to receive more details on how you can sponsor Maurice join him as a sponsored rider or plan a bike ride of your own choosing. You can also make a donation, all contributions help raise money for Clean Water Action. However you support this event, it will help raise awareness for the cause of environmental justice while supporting personal health and wellness.