An international company known as Elcon is trying to build a hazardous waste plant in Bucks County, PA, where nearly 600 different hazardous materials, like pharmaceutical waste, petrochemicals, and heavy metals, would be boiled down into toxic sludge and salts. Trucks and possibly trains carrying this waste could travel alongside the Delaware River and through Pennsylvania communities on a daily basis -- posing risks to families' air, water, and health. Tell Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection: don't let this hazardous proposal move forward.

The Porter Ranch gas leak exposed just how dangerous fracked gas and infrastructure can be, as the gas blowout forced 15,000 residents out of their homes for four months due to health concerns. We have the ability to transition to real clean energy and ensure a future of climate resiliency, good green jobs and healthy communities, but we need L.A. Mayor Garcetti and the L.A. City Council to get on board.

Fracking is a type of drilling that injects millions of gallons of hydraulic fluids — a mixture of chemicals, water and sand — into a well to create pressure that cracks open rock underground, releasing natural gas or oil. This process can deplete and contaminate local water, damage the environment and threaten public health. The fugitive methane pollution from the hydrofracturing process is accelerating global warming. On a national scale, a growing body of scientific evidence is building that the climate benefits of switching from coal to natural gas were a total mirage, with the catastrophic Porter Ranch methane blowout the most visible and extreme example of a nationwide surge in methane leakage as a result of the domestic fracking boom promoted by the Bush and Obama administrations. Methane is a greenhouse gas that is 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide on a twenty-year timespan. Fracking threatens our air and water. The toxic results of using hydraulic fracturing to extract natural gas have led to the contamination of drinking water, and disposal of wastewater from fracking causes earthquakes. Oklahoma became the number one place for earthquakes on Earth this year because gas companies inject fracking fluid back into the ground. Toxic and carcinogenic fracking chemicals—as well as hazardous working conditions—are poisoning and killing workers in the fracking industry. Fracking is a large-scale industrial process that doesn’t belong in anyone’s backyard or deserve exemption from laws that protect the health of our children and of our workers. That’s why communities all over the country from New York to California and Texas to Colorado have stood up to the oil and gas industry and said they don’t want fracking in their backyards. We have clean energy solutions to climate change, and fracking is not one of them.

UPDATE: We've won round one! In a first vote, the U.S. Senate failed to advance the DARK Act. But the lobbyists for Big Ag aren't going away. Let's keep up the pressure -- consumers deserve to know what's in our food. -- Jeff The U.S. Senate is expected to vote soon on what is known as the Big Ag-supported DARK Act, which would prohibit states from requiring labeling of genetically modified foods. But the Senate has another choice, one that would put in place a national standard that requires labeling of foods containing GMOs. It's called the Biotechnology Food Labeling and Uniformity Act and it needs your support. This is our chance to stand up to Big Ag and bring GMO labeling to all 50 states, but time is running out. Add your name right away!

UC's plan to cut down and poison 100,000 trees in the hills above the Berkeley campus will be an unmitigated environmental disaster. For both those of us who live in these hills as well as the many people of all ages who come from all over to walk, hike and bike on these beautiful shady trails, the idea that the forests that we all enjoy should be mowed down is totally unacceptable. Make no mistake about it; if this is allowed to happen UC would not only destroy animal habitat, but make a shady and cool area hot and dry, destabilize hillsides, cause the application of thousands of gallons of toxic herbicides on steep hillsides with myriad creeks, release tons of carbon dioxide, and increase the risk of the sorts of wildfires that have increasingly plagued California every summer. In short, this project would be an environmental disaster.

We would like the City Council to HOLD OFF on moving forward until the following is addressed: - Scale down the design and budget to address trails, parks, traffic and public safety for our small town, not a destination attraction. - Include specific development restrictions to preserve physical and visual lake access. - Bring Lake Effect to a referendum vote.

Many of us have a pet, or used to have one. We love or loved the animal very much. We also recognize that farm animals and other animals in our country do not have good lives. We believe that all animals deserve to be treated with love and care.

The West Virginia House of Delegates just voted to block new, high quality science standards for K-12 students in order to stop students from learning about climate change. Speaking in support of the anti-science language in the education bill, HB 4014, Delegate Frank Deem said "there's nothing that upsets me more than the idea that it's a proven fact that climate change is man made." He also said he doesn't want "our children to be taught how bad fossil fuels are." If the anti-science education provision is passed into law, West Virginia students will not only be denied instruction about climate change, they will be denied access to up-to-date standards covering all science subjects. The bill has been sent to the West Virginia Senate. Let's send a loud, clear message to West Virginia legislators that damaging the education of West Virginia kids with climate denial is wrong -- and unacceptable. Please sign the petition to stand up for the right of WV kids to have a high quality science education that includes climate science. Sincerely, Herman Mays (Professor in the biology department of Marshall University, a father, and member of the pro-science education group Climate Parents).

Many citizens in Rome, Floyd County, Georgia have leased their mineral rights (e.g., oil and natural gas) to out-of-state companies that seek to drill in our community. Vertical "test" wells pose some risk, but horizontal drilling, or fracking, poses significant risk to our community. Fracking has been associated with ground and surface water contamination, with road damage, with air and noise pollution, with earthquakes, and with negative health consequences. Of particular concern are the risks to citizens and businesses who rely on well water.

Vote it Loud is leading the charge to urge U.S. elected representatives in the House and Senate to pass the Flint Emergency Funding Proposal that will provide $600 Million in Federal Emergency Relief Funding for Flint families in need.

Due to this 16 month delay, 17 billion more plastic shopping bags will be distributed, which have the potential to enter the environment. This will negatively impact oceans, wildlife, and the overall environment. Plastic bags dramatically impact green house gas emissions; 1 bag requires a large amount of petroleum. Animals die due to entanglement and ingesting plastic bags. For more information and ways you can help, please visit: http://www.surfrider.org/campaigns/defeat-the-ca-bag-ban-referendum and http://www.surfrider.org/ban-the-bag?banthebag Let us uphold this bag ban law in the 2016 general election!

We support the Beaucatcher Greenway. But the new trailhead construction plans will cause irreversible harm to one of the last wild spaces with old growth trees in the Asheville city limits. In addition to the 82 trees currently slated to be cut, construction will damage root structures and harm or kill even more trees. For eight months community members have suggested viable options that accomplish the same goals faster, cheaper, with less environmental damage, and with community support instead of opposition. Asheville Parks refuses to conduct any environmental impact assessment by qualified professionals. We request that City Council ask the Tree Commission and a local entity with forest ecology expertise to propose design modifications, lessen environmental damage, and make the results of this evaluation public. Ample time remains for the city to modify its plans and prevent irreversible environmental damage. Asheville is not the kind of place where dozens of trees are cut down and many more are harmed in the name of preserving a greenspace. Asheville is not the kind of place where city planners bulldoze through damaging, unpopular projects over the valid and reasonable concerns of the public. Our city is better than this.