Wisconsin residents have been able to cross the right-away for over a 100 years but now have been denied this access due to a law change in 2006 by the railroad. Over 255 crossings will now be illegal due to this legislation.

President Obama has recognized the importance of protecting the sacred lands of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and of allowing for peaceful demonstrations against the Dakota Access Pipeline, which threatens tribal lands. But state & local law enforcement have been escalating the use of force, with riot gear, batons, armed vehicles, sound cannons, and pepper spray being deployed against demonstrators, resulting in over a hundred arrests. Democratic Representatives Raúl Grijalva & Jared Huffman are leading a letter urging President Obama to de-escalate the use of force at Standing Rock. They urge Obama to deny the easement for the Dakota Access Pipeline to cross Lake Oahe. They urge Obama to protect the rights of the water protectors by sending Justice Department observers & urging North Dakota Gov. Dalrymple to withdraw National Guard & other law enforcement personnel that have been deployed around the camp. They oppose the use of federal funds to reimburse North Dakota for its heavy-handed response to protests. Urge your Representative to support the Grijalva-Huffman letter by signing our petition.

This petition is to stop the pollution that Nestle is causing!! Stop nestle from selling bottled water before they stop us from living.

As few as 250 wolverines remain in the wild. This species relies on dense spring snowpack during denning season, but due to climate change, this snow is late or non-existent. USFWS has resisted protecting them to date, but recent litigation is requiring them to go back to the drawing board. Please tell Director Dan Ashe to protect wolverines under the Endangered Species Act.

On October 28, Senator Bernie Sanders sent a letter to President Obama requesting that he intervene to protect Native Americans peacefully protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline. [1] At least 140 people were arrested at the construction site in Cannon Ball, N.D., last Wednesday after police moved in with tanks and riot gear, using sound cannons, pepper spray and rubber bullets. Hundreds of Native American protectors have gathered at the site since April to protest the pipeline’s construction on land they claim is tribal under the 1851 Treaty of Fort Laramie. States which have recently deployed personnel against the Standing Rock protests include Wisconsin, Indiana, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wyoming, and Nebraska, according to an October 23 press release from the Morton County Sheriff's Department. [2] Some Minnesota elected officials called on Minnesota authorities not to send police officers to the Dakota Access Pipeline protest at Standing Rock after it was revealed that the Hennepin County Sheriff had done so. [3] Urge Governor Walker and Wisconsin legislators to discourage Wisconsin law enforcement agencies from sending police officers to the #NoDAPL protest at Standing Rock by signing our petition. References: 1. http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/obama-protect-native?r_by=1135580 2. http://www.desmogblog.com/2016/10/27/emergency-assistance-law-dakota-access-pipeline-out-state-cops 3. http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/minnesota-dont-send-cops?r_by=1135580

We are all negatively effected by pollution from oil burned to generate air conditioning. Much of the electricity in Hawaii, Guam, Las Vegas, (and other locations of ABC Stores) is from burned oil and burned coal. This pollution is harming all of us! ABC Stores are polluting the environment and ignorantly being wasteful.

Because I am ashamed that I'm not doing more, that I let the Standing Rock Sioux bear the brunt of ETE's brute violence alone. And I honor them.

Members of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe of North Dakota have been protesting construction of the Dakota Access pipeline since April. The pipeline, also known as the Bakken Pipeline, will carry fracked crude oil from North Dakota’s Bakken shalefields through South Dakota and Iowa to Illinois and then to Texas and Louisiana. In other words, it’s Keystone XL all over again. The planned pipeline threatens to pollute tribal waters and crosses land sacred to tribes, so the Standing Rock Tribe have been gathering at the site where it burrows under the Missouri River — and now the construction company is working with state and local officials to keep the pipeline moving forward. Secretary Hillary Clinton has refused to take a stand on the pipeline. On the one hand, she has pledged to honor tribal sovereignty and re-open the doors of the White House to Native Americans. On the other hand, she has put forth energy and climate policy that calls for "responsible" investments in new oil and gas pipelines and an "energy system that crosses borders." If we are to have any hope at all of staving off climate catastrophe, we need to halt the fracking of North Dakota’s oil shalefields—not build export pipelines that would allow the Bakken oil boom to increase. Halting the Dakota Access pipeline is critical to keeping the Bakken crude in the ground. Protests began in April, but they’ve picked up pace after the Army Corps of Engineers issued a questionable permit for the pipeline to cross the Missouri River, the source of the Standing Rock Sioux’s drinking water. Construction began on that segment on August 10, when the Standing Rock set up a peaceful encampment that put a halt to the work. Now local and state police are attacking and arresting the water protectors. Secretary Clinton, it’s time to take a stand. Members of the Standing Rock Sioux have asked you to oppose the pipeline. Stand with the tribes, and for a livable climate for all.

The KCC put strict limits in place on wastewater injection wells in 5 counties in southern Kansas, 8,000 barrels, in July of 2015. It worked! So they decided this September to increase that to 16,000 barrels, that's 704,000 gallons, and that is double the amount. Guess when the earthquakes started getting past 3.0 magnitude again? In September! And now that Colorado is bringing their waste to dump in Kansas we have earthquakes in Ellis where the limits don't apply. Ask them exactly how they plan to deal with this failed experiment. Oct 24 3.5 18 km E of Anthony Oct 24 2.8 16 km E of Anthony Oct 20 3.6 13 km SSW of Caldwell Sept 18 3.2 8 km NNW of Ellis Sept 16 3.1 13 km N of Ellis Sept 14 3.5 7 km N of Ellis Sept 13 3.2 10 km NW of Harper

I am the Chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, which has long opposed the Dakota Access Pipeline project. The pipeline presents a threat to our lands, our sacred sites, and our water. Now, thousands of American Indians, from more than 300 tribes spanning the continent, have joined with us to stand against this violation of our tribe's rights under federal laws and regulations. Twenty-one city and county governments have also joined us to stand in opposition to this pipeline. We demand that construction of this pipeline be stopped before any further damage is done. While we engage in the long legal process to curtail construction of the pipeline, Dakota Access is still poised to begin construction. Halting the construction was an unprecedented step in response to our powerful movement—and now President Obama must reject the pipeline's permit outright. Current and future generations depend on our rivers and aquifer to live. The Dakota Access pipeline jeopardizes the heath of our water and could affect our people, as well as countless communities who live downstream, as the pipeline would cross four states. The pipeline, as designed, would destroy ancient burial grounds, which is a violation of federal law. On Saturday, September 5, Dakota Access bulldozed two miles of burial grounds. The company's private security sicced dogs on and pepper-sprayed those who tried to protect the site. This company cannot be trusted. Urgent action is needed to prevent Dakota Access from continuing to violate federal laws. Over the past year, I have spent a great deal of time addressing the Tribe’s concerns about this pipeline. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has failed to follow the law and has failed to consider the impacts of the pipeline on the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and neighboring communities. We demand to be heard, and we will continue to stand together for our nation and for all who live with and by the Missouri River, until justice is done.

The impacts of climate change are now playing out in California in real time: Record drought. Intense wildfires engulfing numerous areas of the state. More than 66 million dead trees in the southern Sierra Nevada. The single largest source of the pollution causing climate change in California? The gas-powered cars, trucks and buses that we drive every day. Yet powerful forces in the auto and petroleum industries are working overtime to keep us addicted to dirty fossil fuels. And their pressure is intensifying ahead of a critical decision about meeting California’s game-changing electric vehicle goal. Transitioning to clean electric vehicles means giving Californians a healthier planet, cleaner air to breathe and savings the pump. That’s why California established a pivotal goal to put 1.5 million electric vehicles on the road by 2025. Yet special interests are working relentlessly to put the brakes on California’s electric vehicle goal – just as we need to accelerate to a clean vehicle future. The Air Resources Board will decide the future of this electric vehicle goal this fall. Leaders at the Air Resources Board need to hear that Californians want them to resist pressure from special interests and accelerate the growth of clean vehicles. By upholding and meeting this goal, California can charge ahead to a cleaner, healthier future for all Californians. Tell the Air Resources Board that California should stay in the driver’s seat of the clean vehicle revolution!

Western Environmental Law Center is a nonprofit, environmental law firm dedicated to defending the West from oil and gas exploitation. In 2015, the Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service authorized the sale of over 20,000 acres of oil and gas leases in the Santa Fe National Forest. Our expert attorneys filed suit in May challenging the sale of these leases and are ready to use the full power of the law to stop the fracking of these public lands.