Everyday, millions of Americans, particularly in communities of color and low-income communities, face danger from hazardous waste recycling and reclamation. The Bush administration exempted thousands of these facilities—predominantly located in the nation’s most vulnerable communities—from safety requirements mandated under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. The safeguards protect all Americans from exposure to toxic chemicals, and with your help can be reinstated by a new EPA rule under review by the Office of Management and Budget. Tell President Obama to protect those living just miles or even yards away from refineries, scrap metal yards, chemical plants, smelters, battery recyclers, mines and other facilities that reclaim and recycle hazardous waste. Ask the President to finalize the rule proposed by EPA to reinstate safeguards against dangerous recycling of hazardous waste. The 90-day review period has passed. Now it’s time for the EPA to act. Please ask President Obama to finalize a rule so strong that it doesn’t just change lives, but saves them.

The Obama Administration has launched a new initiative protect bees and other pollinators and try to prevent the recent bee die-offs. It also provides funding to create new bee habitats in five states. But this effort falls far short of what's needed. The plan fails to take definitive action on neonicotinoid pesticides -- a key factor contributing to the bee die-offs and one they could do something about now. Tell President Obama he needs to take strong and immediate action to save bees and ban bee-killing pesticides now!

The Obama Administration has launched a new initiative protect bees and other pollinators and try to prevent the recent bee die-offs. It also provides funding to create new bee habitats in five states. But this effort falls far short of what's needed. The plan fails to take definitive action on neonicotinoid pesticides -- a key factor contributing to the bee die-offs and one they could do something about now. Tell President Obama he needs to take strong and immediate action to save bees and ban bee-killing pesticides now!

SB 270 will greatly reduce the harmful impacts caused by plastic bags. It's on Governor Brown's desk and awaiting his signature. -An estimated 10 billion single use bags are used annually in California alone; -Up to $107 million is spent annually to curb pollution associated with plastic bags; -Southern California cities spent more than $1.7 billion to meet Total Maximum Daily Load for trashed waterways; and -Plastic bags have adversely impacted California's $40 billion ocean industry, with grave impacts to over 267 critical species including birds and fish Plastic bags are wasteful, bad for the environment and bad for the economy.

This is the statement of Abigail, Elizabeth, Patrick, Mike, and Jackie: We, the people of Washington state, are under serious threat from fossil fuels and coal and oil trains. Not only are our railway workers at risk from dangerous working conditions, long hours, and proposed, deadly single person crews – We are all at risk from oil train explosions, coal dust pollution, derailments, Puget Sound acidification, and the devastation of global warming. These are not empty words. Puget Sound salmon are being caught with skin peeling off. The shellfish industry is being forced out. The Sound, a region with high fossil fuel pollution, has four of the state’s five highest cancer rate counties – Whatcom, Pierce, Snohomish and Skagit. Climate disruption is coming home. This year our state has been hit with record fires driven by drought and deadly mudslides triggered by intense downpours. Our water security and jobs are at risk from loss of snowpack on which forests, farms and cities depend in warm months, and from fossil train spills. To avert climate catastrophe most fossil fuels must remain in the ground. Instead, production and shipping of the dirtiest fuels such as coal and shale oil are growing. Moving rapidly to a fossil-fuel-free Washington is not a choice, it is a societal imperative. Therefore, we demand that Governor Inslee enact an immediate moratorium on all fossil fuel trains and deny permits for all coal and oil shipping facilities. The time to act is now. Please sign our petition to show your support for these demands and for making Washington fossil-fuel free. Fossil fuel impacts intensify: • 2012 – Puget Sound acidification forces Taylor Shellfish to move hatchery facilities to Hawaii. • March 22, 2014 – Intense downpours trigger Oso landslide killing 43 people. • July 24, 2014 – Oil train with nearly 100 tanker cars derails under Magnolia Bridge in Interbay Seattle. • July 2014 – Carlton fire burns 251,000 acres, the largest wildfire in Washington history. President Obama declares federal disaster. • August 2014 – Downpour-caused mudslides, strike area scorched by fire, closed highways and stranded motorists. • August 19, 2014 – Drought covers 40% of Washington state.

Rivers directly affect the health of our seas, wildlife, communities, and economies. Restoring freshwater habitats is no longer optional; it’s required. The Colorado River basin serves Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, California, Arizona and New Mexico. Mexico and 29 Indian tribes along the Colorado River also claims to river water. Shrunken stream flows now pose serious threats to wildlife and recreation, as well as cities, farms and others who rely upon the river for a variety of critical needs. A steady increase in population growth and climate change related events has exacerbated conditions. In short, the demand for water exceeds the Colorado River water supply. Many communities throughout the western region are currently experiencing below normal precipitation and below average reservoir storage, which can impact water supplies, the natural environment, and quality of life . Tell Gov. Hickenlooper we need bold and powerful measures to protect the flow of the river, ensure economic vitality and secure water resources for millions of Americans. The Governor must implement an Emergency Water Plan that focuses on conservation, reuse through gray-water treatment, efficiency and water banking, renewable energy and energy efficiency(including wind, rooftop solar and geothermal energy solutions), and new water-efficient thermoelectric power plants. When used together, these solutions will help to ensure we have enough water and may even provide us with a surplus to serve growing populations and water demands.

Gov. Pat McCrory has signed a bill into law that clears the way for permits to be issued for "fracking" activities all across North Carolina. "Fracking,” shorthand for hydraulic fracturing, is the process by which water, sand and toxic chemicals are injected into wells to fracture sub surface rock for the extraction of shale gas. The process is known to contaminate water supplies and increase air pollution. Govenor McCorory’s law is harmful to the public waterways, and inhibits the development of other energy sources like wind and solar. There are numerous documented cases of contaminated water from fracking across the country. By rushing to frack, Gov. McCrory and legislative leaders are putting North Carolina's rivers and drinking water for millions in jeopardy. North Carolina's Mining and Energy Commission is the agency in charge of regulations over fracking & drilling to ensure the practice is safe. We urge the commission to reinstate the permanent ban on fracking and horizontal drilling for shale gas in North Carolina, and continue the ban on underground toxic injections to protect public health and conserve the State’s air, water, and other natural resources.

Mountaintop Removal is a destructive and unsustainable practice that only benefits big, greedy corporations at the expense of the health of our communities and the environment. While traditional coal mining extracts coal from underground, mountaintop removal mining blasts away chunks of mountains at the surface to get at the coal beneath. Explosives are used to remove up to 400 vertical feet of a mountain to expose underlying coal seams. Excess rock and soil laden with toxic mining byproducts are then dumped into nearby valleys and waterways. But our water isn’t the only thing being poisoned by these chemicals; mountaintop removal has also polluted thousands of pristine streams, and there are dozens of toxic slurry dams across West Virginia. Mountaintop Removal mining has contributed to placing a slew of wildlife on the federal endangered species list, and threatens some of the highest biodiversity in North America. Numerous studies demonstrate that mountaintop mining has serious environmental impacts, including loss of biodiversity and toxification of watersheds, which mitigation practices cannot successfully address. There are also adverse human health impacts which result from contact with affected streams or exposure to airborne toxins and dust. We must tell President Obama and Director John Pizarchik of The US Dept of Interior - Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE) to enforce the Stream Protection Rule, and stop mountain top removal to protect human health and our environment.

This pipeline will directly affect my community! We all know that fracking is dangerous and environmentally destructive. We also hear about how pipelines are not inspected as much as they should be, so they leak. Just the building of these pipelines alone is damaging to ecologically sensitive areas (and, yes, this pipeline will affect such areas). It's time to tell our politicians to stop taking Big Oil's money and to invest in solar/wind energy and overall energy efficiency! We can't take anymore fossil fuel destruction! UPDATE!!! HERE'S A NEW LINK TO CHECK OUT (THE PREVIOUS ONE IS DEFUNCT): http://www.sierraclub.org/new-jersey/pilgrim-pipeline

Japan's dolphin slaughter killing 23,000 dolphins and whales per year, exposed in the 2009 documentary "The Cove", is set to continue September 1st 2014 until April 2015. Blackfish is showing us currently how global support can cripple unjust action - It's time to Blackfish the Cove and end this tragedy for good.

A growing number of major grocery store chains have made commitments to not sell GMO salmon. Even if the FDA approves this risky fish, by ensuring that the world's largest retailers refuse to sell it, we can send a strong message that there is no market for it. Unfortunately, despite the fact that more than 35,000 people have written to Costco's CEO asking him to commit to keep GMO fish off store shelves, this retail giant is still lagging behind its competition. So now we need to turn up the heat and flood Costco's customer service inbox. Tell Costco to join its competitors and just say no to GMO salmon!

All over the country, states are spending hundreds of thousands of tax dollars on killing deer in hopes of cutting back the herd, only later to realize(even after 20 years) that it didn't even work. One study reports only a 75% accuracy rate and a recovery rate of 82% in bow hunters. This means the deer will likely be injured, not killed, then run off and not be found for hours or even days - if at all - all this time suffering a slow, painful death. With these 1,000 signatures, we ask the DWR (Department of Wildlife Resources) of Utah to put a stop to this senseless killing!!!!