Urgent Action: Please CALL ASAP In the next few hours the Cuomo administration is poised to make a monumental mistake on fracking. We need you to put him back on track! Yesterday, the Governor told a group of reporters that the state will be filing for a 90-day extension to its initial Nov. 29 deadline for releasing proposed regulations for ... Read More »
Atlantic bluefin tuna need your help to gain much-needed protections from our neighbors to the north. The Canadian government proposed “endangered” status for the imperiled ocean predator in May 2011, and now Canada must decide whether to grant legal protections for bluefin. Ask Canada to adopt protections for this majestic, too-swiftly disappearing warm-blooded fish. In the fall, Canadian waters provide ... Read More »
We need your help to stop seafood fraud. We’re working hard to push the SAFE Seafood Act, but Rep. Hayworth hasn’t signed on yet. Dishonest labeling hurts consumers and the oceans, and the disturbing statistics show that for commonly swapped species like wild salmon, cod and red snapper, up to 70% of seafood might be mislabeled. Your member of Congress ... Read More »
It couldn’t be clearer that we need more jobs and sources of energy that don’t bring doom and gloom to the planet. Yet we are we are weeks away from losing one of the most successful programs to promote wind energy in the U.S., and tens of thousands of the jobs that have come with it. The Wind Production Tax ... Read More »
Are you tired of arguing with your family about football and whether Grammy Jean or Aunt Lucille make the best stuffing? Switch it up this Thanksgiving and argue about fracking! We jest. Kind of. In addition to wishing you and your loved ones a very happy holiday, we do encourage you to take this opportunity to help educate your family ... Read More »
GMO labeling in America: Where we won – Last week more than 5 million California voters stood up for transparency and labels on genetically engineered foods by voting Yes on Prop 37. We came up short on election night, but have built a powerful movement that has changed the conversation on GMO labeling in the U.S. forever. At Food Democracy ... Read More »
People of the World: Rise up for Climate Justice! Call for mass direct action A Renewed Sense of Urgency for the Autumn of Unity Join hundreds of New Yorkers from upstate and downstate as they converge on the steps of the NY Public Library on 42nd st and then march to Times Square as part of a global week of ... Read More »
HR 2606/SA 2869 permits the construction of a high-pressure gas pipeline through Gateway National Recreation Area and a gas metering and regulating station in the historic hangars at Floyd Bennett Field. This project is dangerous because it: Threatens wildlife, wetlands, and sensitive ecosystems in Jamaica Bay and Breezy Point Puts park users and area residents at risk in the event ... Read More »
The SUNY University at Buffalo’s Shale Resources and Society Institute (SRSI) might sound like an unbiased source of academic research — and that’s exactly the point. In fact, SRSI is a fracking industry-funded mouthpiece designed to promote biased, pro-fracking propaganda under the banner and good reputation of the University at Buffalo (UB). In their first major “study,” released just six ... Read More »
Governor Cuomo has boldly stated that climate change is our new normal, and that the state must take visionary action to fight climate pollution – and the answer is right in front us. Let Governor Cuomo know it is time to strengthen the standards of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI)—a nine state coalition effort that has already reduced climate ... Read More »
Solar One, SolarCity and Consolidated Solar are partnering to connect communities rebuilding from Sandy to mobile solar generators so that they can get much-needed temporary electricity. So far, we have two 10kw solar generators deployed: one in Staten Island and one in Rockaway Beach. Three more of these generators are on their way to community gathering places where folks are already getting warm ... Read More »
By now you’ve likely seen that Governor Cuomo has made some encouraging comments about the dangers that climate change poses to New York. You’d think this would mean that this administration wouldn’t even think of furthering our dependence on dirty fuels by allowing fracking in New York. Sadly, with an important deadline looming, there is no word from the Cuomo ... Read More »
Congress returned to Washington today to work on the budget, and the programs that protect our air, our water, our wildlife and our national parks are facing severe cutbacks. Unless Congress acts soon, those programs will suffer severe, indiscriminate, across-the-board budget cuts, and at the same time tax credits that boost clean energy will expire. To make matters worse, some ... Read More »
Do you remember when rivers caught on fire before the Clean Water Act passed? The only thing worse than a river on fire would be your drinking water on fire. Yet thanks to fracking, that’s exactly what’s happened to countless American families. Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, is a dangerous way of drilling for natural gas — and if President Obama ... Read More »
350.org is going back to Washington to stop the Keystone XL pipeline. We always knew this was going to be a long fight, that ours was a temporary victory; but after seeing the devastation of Hurricane Sandy — and all the other sobering, often tragic ways climate change has made itself starkly visible this past year — we’re even more ... Read More »
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