I'm a concerned citizen who has witnessed the devastation of our land, water, and air by the careless actions of others. We need to wake up and act today!

I lost my job designing and installing rooftop solar systems after the Nevada Public Utilities Commission killed Nevada’s rooftop solar industry. I had to leave my newborn son behind to take a job in Texas to support my family. Now there’s a chance to bring rooftop solar jobs back to Nevada. The Nevada Legislature will be considering bills on rooftop solar, but we have to act fast. The legislature only meets every two years, for just four months.

Michigan taxpayers are already funding Gov. Snyder's personal legal defense for the Flint Water Crisis. Now Snyder's office says that taxpayers will also pay to defend Flint Emergency Managers Darnell Earley and Gerald Ambrose – the Snyder administration cronies running the city when the water turned deadly. Enough is enough. Flint residents and fellow Michiganders shouldn’t be forced to pay to keep the officials who wronged them out of prison. It adds insult to injury – and it’s got to stop. Tell the Michigan Legislature to stop Gov. Snyder from raiding the public treasury today.

A major source of our state's drinking water, the Pinelands, will be at risk if the South Jersey Gas pipeline gets approved. The construction will destroy critical habitat and would affect drinking water for more than a million people. Long term, if the pipeline is approved it would open the floodgates to even more development. The pipeline violates the strong rules that protect the Pinelands, but the Commission in charge of the Pinelands is considering letting the pipeline get built anyway. The good news is that massive local opposition has forced the Commission to extend its public comment period, and now we have until February 8 to weigh in. We can win this fight, but it's going to come down to keeping up the public outcry. Add your name to our letter to help stop South Jersey Gas pipeline!

An anti-science “alternative facts” bill just passed the South Dakota Senate and is headed to the House Education Committee this Friday. The bill, SB 55, would permit the teaching of nonscientific ideas and opinions—like climate change denialism—in science classes. It would allow miseducation of students about climate change and other topics, with local or state administrators unable to intervene. The National Science Teachers Association is strongly opposing SB 55. And the American Institute of Biological Sciences says, "we should be working to strengthen our science education system—not enabling the misrepresentation of science in the classroom." Urge South Dakota Education Committee members to support evidence-based science education, and to reject the "alternative facts" anti-science bill, SB 55!

Although the fossil fuel industry, including SoCal Gas, continues to delay action, deny science, and destroy our health and climate, the people are waking up to say "Keep It In the Ground!"

We just won! http://usuncut.com/resistance/hunters-fishermen-public-land/ I am a member of and volunteer for Sierra Club, and I am fighting to keep our federal lands free of all ways to gut them and their budgets as a way for US OIL-igarchy and corps takeover to the detriment of the people. AND H.R.621 - To direct the Secretary of the Interior to sell certain Federal lands in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, and Wyoming, previously identified as suitable for disposal, and for other purposes. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jan/31/public-lands-sell-congress-bureau-management-chaffetz - More like a free for all land grab. Not expected to make a profit for USA. Cosponsor Date Cosponsored Rep. Stewart, Chris [R-UT-2]* 01/24/2017 Rep. Love, Mia B. [R-UT-4]* 01/24/2017 Rep. LaMalfa, Doug [R-CA-1]* 01/24/2017 Rep. Amodei, Mark E. [R-NV-2]* 01/24/2017 Rep. McClintock, Tom [R-CA-4]* 01/24/2017 Rep. Gosar, Paul A. [R-AZ-4]* 01/24/2017

President Trump's recent executive actions to push through the pipeline projects of the TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline and the Dakota Access Pipeline is a violation of Standing Rock Sioux Tribal sovereignty and marks the beginning of a full-frontal attack on Mother Earth on behalf of the fossil fuel industry. It's crucial we make our opposition heard. The Department of Army is now accepting public comments as part of the environmental impact statement for the Lake Oahe crossing by the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline—and we have until February 20 to submit our comments in opposition to this pipeline. Sign the petition now to submit your comment. President Trump's executive actions violate the legal and moral sovereign treaty rights of the Lakota, Nakota, and Dakota people and is an aggressive rebuke of more than 300 tribes who stand with Standing Rock in opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline. With the strength of prayers and people power, water protectors—Native and non-Native—across the country are more than ready to respond with sustained actions to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline and the Keystone XL Pipeline. Native Organizers Alliance will continue to support the tribal, spiritual, and grassroots-led movement which has mobilized millions to stand with Standing Rock. Stand with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and water protectors. Sign now to submit your comment.

The world will not last under the America First Energy Plan. Rather than double down on fossil fuels, as the new adminstration is attempting to do, we need to move rapidly and radically to renewable energy and strategies to drawdown greenhouse gas concentrations. The US has a huge responsibility and should have the ability to lead toward a climate resilient future, but we need to transform schools and communities into living laboratories of sustainable practices.

Since 2005, the oil and gas industry has fracked over 137,000 wells, used over 6 billion pounds of chemicals and produced billions of gallons of fracking wastewater. At least 157 of the chemicals used in fracking fluid are toxic to humans and aquatic life. Fracking produces billions of gallons of fracking fluid waste each year. And time and again, toxic spills have contaminated our water and endangered our health. Yet the fracking industry remains exempt from EPA regulation and the laws that ensure the safety of our drinking water. The Senate must close the fracking loopholes in the Clean Water Act and the Safe Drinking Water Act.

Please sign the petition, then call or email the White House with the information below: Comments: 202-456-1111 Switchboard: 202-456-1414 https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact President Obama, we respectfully – and urgently request that in the closing days of your presidency you block vulnerable areas on the California Coast from fossil fuel exploitation. We are concerned that even with the protected areas on the Pacific Coast, the areas off of the southern coast of California – from Santa Barbara to San Diego have come into the crosshairs of the fossil fuel industry. The southern coast of California is particularly attractive to the Oilmen because there is on-shore infrastructure available to process the extracted hydrocarbons. They are proposing the use of new technologies such as horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing. We cannot afford to compromise the marine habitats of Coastal California. We have gained so much – but could lose as much or more by way of the air and water pollutants that fracking would release in our waters. It would also expose the entire coast to the risk of a catastrophic oil-spill event should the high-pressure wells blow – something that does occur on land where the blow-out can be contained without public notice, but would not be so easily contained (or concealed) in a marine environment. Please use your executive power to immediately protect our coastline from any oil exploration.

It’s time for a revolution in the food system—young and new farmers need support to nourish future generations. Farmers, businesses, policymakers, and educators need to promote agriculture as an intellectually stimulating and economically sustainable career, and to and make jobs in agriculture and the food system “cool” for young people all over the world. With a rapidly aging population of farmers, it’s time to attract more young people to agriculture. This is a global challenge; half the farmers in the United States are 55 years or older while in South Africa, the average age of farmers is around 62 years old. “Agriculture has an image problem,” according to the organization Young Professionals for Agricultural Development (YPARD). Yet, according to the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR), 2.5 billion people depend on agriculture for their livelihoods, and according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), 27 percent of the world’s population is under 10 years old while only eight percent is over 65 years old. “For decades, poor farmers were seen as a problem to be solved. But where and when people and governments have been able to give them the support they need and have understood that family farmers are, in fact, part of the solution, we have seen promising results,” said FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva. It’s time to cultivate the next generation of food system leaders—young farmers, agricultural entrepreneurs, agronomists, extension agents, educators, researchers, scientists, and policymakers who can create a more sustainable food system. “Increased access to education means that young people can be a force for innovation on family farms, increasing incomes and well-being for not only farmers but also for local communities. Young people can develop the agricultural sector by applying new technologies to current work methods,” says Mark Holderness, Executive Secretary of GFAR. Agriculture means more than subsistence farming. Today, young people can explore career options in permaculture design, biodynamic farming, communication technologies, forecasting, marketing, logistics, quality assurance, urban agriculture projects, food preparation, environmental sciences, advanced technologies, and more.