The Clean Water Act has been critical in cleaning up America’s waterways, but two Supreme Court decisions have left our small streams and wetlands vulnerable to toxic dumping. Fortunately, the EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Clean Water Rule restores important pollution protections to these waterways, which impact the drinking water of 1 in 3 Americans, support businesses and recreation, and provide homes for wildlife. But Big Polluters want to keep their free pass to pollute our waterways and are pushing their allies in Congress to block this important rule by any means necessary. Send a message today to your Members of Congress telling them to protect our water by opposing all attacks on the Clean Water Rule!

The Grand Canyon is an icon of our American heritage, known around the world for its beauty and magnificence. But right now, it’s facing serious risks from greedy corporations — including some who represent the Koch brothers who want to open up areas of the Grand Canyon to radioactive uranium mining. Arizona’s Native American tribes, small businesses, and conservation groups are all joining together to ask President Obama to permanently protect 1.7 million acres of the Grand Canyon. Can we count on your support too?

Representatives of the International Indigenous Youth Council of Standing Rock and Oceti Sakowin Youth encampment have requested that Senator John Barrasso (R- WY) hold a Senate committee hearing on Indian Affairs in response to the Standing Rock Sioux tribe’s opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline. As the 114th Congressional session is coming to an end, the window of opportunity is closing to give notice to other Senators, as required by procedural rule 4.a for the Indian Affairs committee. Barrasso's legislative director, Stewart, told the Youth Council representatives that Senator Barrasso, “has other priorities than Standing Rock Sioux tribe’s opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline.” This dismissal comes at a time when nearly 300 Native tribes have rallied in support with the Standing Rock Sioux, and this issue has garnered national and international attention, including “solidarity protests” in 40 states and worldwide, and coverage by the mainstream print and tv media. The Standing Rock Sioux tribe, and Native and non-Native allies, have raised particular concern about desecration of historical sacred sites and burial grounds. Meanwhile, construction resumes in North Dakota, continuing to disturb and destroy sacred sites and burial grounds, sacrilege in Treaty terms. Protect the sacred, respect treaty law, and hold an Indian Affairs Senate committee hearing on the Dakota Access Pipeline.

The Ocean's Keeper is a start-up organization that is dedicated to raising awareness about the conservation of our oceans. We want to ban the bag in Myrtle Beach to not only keep it clean for locals and tourists to enjoy, but to also keep that garbage out of the oceans. Help us by signing our petition to end plastic bag usage in Myrtle Beach, SC!

Since 1990, monarch populations have crashed with nearly 1 billion of the butterflies dying. This decline isn't due to natural causes; The Washington Post has called it “nothing short of a massacre.” How so? Pollution-driven climate change is part of the problem. But we're also allowing the destruction of the monarchs' habitat through the rapid acceleration in use of Monsanto's toxic Roundup and Roundup Ready crops. As the monarchs begin their 3,000-mile fall migration, we’re joining together to call on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to declare the monarch butterfly a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. If we succeed, we'll give the monarchs more than a fighting chance. When it comes to preventing extinction, the Endangered Species Act has a 99% success rate. But we have to act now.

Western Environmental Law Center is a nonprofit environmental law firm. Our expert attorneys have long been effective in Canada Lynx protection. For example, in a September 6, 2016 court victory, a federal court ordered the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service to reexamine lynx critical habitat (land designated by the federal government as essential to the survival and recovery of a species). WELC also recently obtained a court order requiring the Fish and Wildlife Service to prepare a recovery plan to guide management of the species after a more than 14 YEAR DELAY. WELC continues to demand enhanced protection for lynx and supports the Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife’s proposal for endangered status for the species.

In North Dakota, over a thousand people representing more than a hundred tribes are gathered along the Cannonball River by the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation to resist the construction of the $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline. More than two dozen major banks and financial institutions including Bank of America, HSBC, UBS, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, and JPMorgan Chase have combined, extended a $3.75 billion credit line are helping finance the Dakota Access pipeline - a project that would transport about 470,000 barrels of crude a day from western North Dakota down to central Illinois, destroying tribal lands and water resources.

This breaks my heart and should affect every caring person on earth that these beautiful horses are in the crosshairs of hamburger-loving legislators.

On Monday, September 12, we will rally at Urbana City Hall at 6:30 pm. [1] We'll be calling on Mayor Prussing and the Urbana City Council to follow the lead of Minneapolis [2] in supporting the water and land protectors at Standing Rock. We'll present this petition urging them to call on President Obama to instruct the Army Corps of Engineers to revoke the permits for the Dakota Access Pipeline. On Friday, the Obama Administration said it would stop construction on a critical stretch of the Dakota Access Pipeline until it can do more environmental assessments. [3] This is a very welcome move by the Obama Administration. We want this welcome pause to be made permanent. To address the threat to people around the world of climate change, we need to keep more fossil fuels in the ground. A great place to start is by helping Native Americans protect their lands and water from unwanted fossil fuel development. Sign our petition urging Mayor Prussing and the Urbana City Council to pass a resolution against the Dakota Access Pipeline, like the City of Minneapolis has. References: 1. https://actionnetwork.org/events/nodapl-action-at-urbana-city-council-meeting 2. http://www.minneapolismn.gov/w/groups/public/@clerk/documents/webcontent/wcmsp-185392.pdf 3. http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/295223-obama-administration-orders-nd-pipeline-construction-to-stop

In December, 2015, the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada came between 32,000 rooftop solar customers and their contracts with their power provider, and impacted economically favorable power rates that had previously been agreed upon. These solar customers invested in personal solar energy systems, acting in good faith based upon promises from the state. These promises were changed and undermined much to the detriment of the utility's customers. Through NV Energy's recent advice filing, the PUC now has the opportunity to remedy their decision that has devalued the investments made by tens of thousands of Nevada solar customers. Sign our petition and tell the PUC you want Nevada's original solar customers grandfathered under their original, contracted rates.

A pipeline is being installed across Indian lands, some sacred lands, belonging to the Lakota tribe of the Sioux nation. No full EPA was done, just the catchall "No significant impact to the environment." The pipeline company is pushing their way through with construction and 16 tribes have joined to protest. The POTUS promised: "You will not be forgotten as long as I'm in this White House. Indians will have a seat at the table when important decisions are being made bout your lives. Washington can't -- and shouldn't -- dictate a policy agenda for Indian country. Tribal nations do better when they make their own decisions." Pres. Barack Obama 11/5/2009. Is it true or not? The tribes have banded together. They need the support of others who share the values and understand the continual taking of their property. It's time to say, "No More!"

I am a beekeeper, owner of a bee-product company, and mom of two kids. That's why I was shocked when I learned that millions of honey bees were poisoned recently by an aerial pesticide spray in South Carolina aimed at combating the transmission of the Zika virus by mosquitoes. And I was even more concerned when I learned that the chemical that was sprayed--a powerful neurotoxin called Naled--hasn't even been proven to be fully effective in eradicating the mosquitoes that carry Zika during trials in Puerto Rico and Florida, where people have protested its use. Will you join me in telling the Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Environmental Protection Agency to consider risks to pollinators, wildlife, and human health and to create stronger guidelines on the aerial application of powerful neurotoxins, such as Naled, for mosquito control? The Zika virus is dangerous, and we must find ways to eradicate it. But fear of the virus should not lead us down a path where we are spraying a dangerous neurotoxin that isn't even effective at eradicating Zika in the first place! Naled has already been banned in the European Union and has been protested heavily in Puerto Rico, where Zika has been more prevalent than almost anywhere else in the world. Beekeepers like me are fighting for our livelihoods. The pollinator industry contributes an estimated $29 billion to farm income and is crucial for our food supply--bees are responsible for pollinating one out of every three bites of food that we eat. But this is not only about bees. In high enough doses, Naled will kill any insect in its vicinity and can be potentially damaging to mammals.