Your help is needed to save Florida’s largest and deepest spring, and the incredible animals that live there. The state of Florida is considering opening Wakulla Spring to recreational diving, which would threaten the survival of species like the manatees that call the spring home. Please send a letter to Florida officials asking them to keep in place the current ... Read More »
Help Create Real Solutions; Support an Organic Farm Bill! Right now the perennial debate in Washington DC about food and agriculture policy is once again picking up with the renewal of the Farm Bill and politicians are listening to lobbyists more than ever. Last year you helped shut down the undemocratic Secret Farm Bill with more than 100,000 phone calls ... Read More »
Small family farmers and fishermen will suffer, along with salmon and other imperiled species, if the House of Representatives approves legislation gutting state and federal protections in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Bay-Delta estuary. Because this bill is expected on the House floor this week, Earth Justices needs immediate action from you to help stop it. Promoted as a benefit for some ... Read More »
Regional News > PlaNYC: Brownfields (City Atlas) Fracking Foes Claim Veto-Proof Votes On Albany Council, Citywide Ban On Gas Drilling Possible (Times Union) Erin Brockovich Slams EPA Over Toxic Waste Superfund Site In Le Roy (ABC News) As Hudson River Desalination Plan Advances, Local Groups Push Back Hydrofracking Runs Up Against Home Rule And Falling Gas Prices NY Congressman Paul ... Read More »
On Monday, February 27th, 2012, OWS Food Justice, OWS Sustainability, Oakland Food Justice & the worldwide Occupy Movement invite you to join the Global Day of Action to Occupy the Food Supply. We challenge the corporate food regime that has prioritized profit over health and sustainability. We seek to create healthy local food systems. We stand in Solidarity with Indigenous ... Read More »
Friends of The Queens Way is a group of New York City residents who have proposed to establish a greenway, consisting of a bicycle and pedestrian path, on the abandoned Long Island Railroad Rockaway Beach Branch right-of-way. The 3.5 mile stretch of the old Rockaway Beach Branch railroad right-of-way currently lies abandoned in Central and Southern Queens. Over the past ... Read More »
Do you think schools should teach our children that climate change isn’t real? Of course not. But the Heartland Institute, an organization known for giving a microphone to climate science deniers, now wants to bring this false message into America’s classrooms. As its President and CEO just admitted, Heartland is writing a “global warming curriculum” that would say climate science ... Read More »
Right now, the Obama administration is accepting comments on a draft policy interpreting the phrase “significant portion of its range” (SPOIR), which specifies that if a species is at risk of extinction in any significant portion of range, it shall be protected. This provision has played a key role in the recovery of the bald eagle, grizzly bear and many ... Read More »
It’s more bad news for polar bears and other Arctic wildlife. First, the Obama Administration gave Shell tentative approval to explore for oil this summer in Alaska’s Polar Bear Seas — the Beaufort and the Chukchi. Now the Interior and Commerce Departments have issued a draft analysis of offshore drilling in the Arctic that could pave the way for other ... Read More »
Regional News > Dryden Becomes New York’s Test Town On Fracking Judge’s Ruling Complicates Hydrofracking Issue In New York State to Look at Turning Tappan Zee Into Walkway (NY Times) Green Super Bills Designed To Invigorate NY’s Solar Industry & Create Jobs, Close Hazardous Waste Loophole For Fracking & Cut Climate Pollution (Environmental Advocates of NY) Will NY Pass Shark ... Read More »
First Year of Program To Detect Unknown Leaks by Monitoring Spikes in Water Usage Saved an Estimated $10 Million for More Than 12,000 Customers Environmental Protection Commissioner Carter Strickland today announced the expansion of DEP’s highly successful Leak Notification Program to include large residential building owners. The expanded Leak Notification Program will proactively notify large building owners of potential leaks ... Read More »
DEC Will Work with Other States and Stakeholders to Advocate a Strong National Standard In comments filed today with the Environmental Protection Agency, DEC Commissioner Joseph Martens indicated that New York will pursue a uniform, national ballast water standard that will leave in place the EPA’s current standards in New York for the remainder of EPA’s current Vessel General Permit ... Read More »
Clean Energy Tops List of Environmental “Super Bills” for 2012 Ten of New York’s leading environmental groups today released their annual slate of “Super Bills” for 2012. These green priorities for the State Legislature include measures designed to bolster economic development while addressing New York’s highest profile environmental challenges, including expanding the use of solar energy, cutting the pollution that ... Read More »
Popular Use of Toxin 2,4-D in Pesticides Poised to Skyrocket without Action WASHINGTON (February 23, 2012) – Seeking to ban a World War II-era toxic weed killer ingredient called 2,4-D, the Natural Resources Defense Council today filed a lawsuit in federal court against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for their failure to respond to a 2008 petition to cancel all ... Read More »
The arrogance of TransCanada is shocking, even for an oil company. The company is threatening to seize the property of American landowners and start construction of its Keystone XL pipeline — even though President Obama last month rejected the permit to build. Tell TransCanada: Stop using eminent domain to confiscate private property for the rejected Keystone XL Pipeline. Click here ... Read More »
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