The FDA does not require the labeling of GMO (genetically modified) food products, leaving consumers in the dark about the ingredients in their food. Without knowing, consumers in North Carolina and across the country regularly consume food that contains GMOs. Most of the food available on store shelves today contains GMOs—and they’re not without risk. For one thing, studies suggest that genetically modified crops require a dramatic increase in the use of pesticides and herbicides, which have been linked to serious health impacts. In addition, there may be other serious dangers, but we just don’t know - there is very little independent research done on the health implications of GMO consumption because the seeds are patented and the companies that own them prohibit their cultivation for research purposes. It’s time that we label all foods that contain GMOs so that consumers can make informed choices. However, some big food manufacturers, along with chemical companies like Monsanto, are spending millions of dollars to oppose labeling. Consumers overwhelmingly want to know what they’re eating, and grocery stores are beginning to heed the call – just last year, Whole Foods committed to labeling. Now, we’re calling on Kroger to side with its customers and label its brands too.

Utah Citizens’ plan to clean up our dirty air. I. Transportation Reform • Expand mass transit through better funding, expanded service, and affordable fares that encourage increased use. • Ten-year moratorium on new freeway construction. • Statewide requirement for the latest emissions controls for all diesel engines, both commercial and public. II. Big Industry Sources • A ten-year moratorium on expansions and new fossil-generated power plants. This includes the oil refineries, Kennecott Copper, cement plants and any other heavy industrial point sources. • Mandate maximum pollution control technology on existing plants within two years. III. Smaller Industry Sources • Close Stericycle NOW. • Ban open industrial and agricultural burning. Includes ATK, metal recyclers, Hill Air Force Base, etc. • Phase out and relocate Geneva gravel operations at Point of the Mountain. IV. Regulatory Authority • Allow state and local governments to enact stricter air quality rules than the federal government. • Increase funds for the Division of Air Quality so they can do their job, including statewide monitoring and enforcement. • End the domination of the Air Quality Board by industry. Restructure with equal representation from health and environmental interests. V. Dirty Energy • Stop permitting tar sands and oil shale. Stop making Utah the dirty energy capitol of the U.S.! • Utah’s electric providers should give consumers more choices for clean, renewable energy. • Implement a strong energy efficiency building code for all new residential and commercial buildings. • Enact programs that encourage distributed generation and home/business heating (I.e., rooftop solar to power homes and electric cars, and geothermal heating) • NO tacked on utility fees for home generated electricity.

A toxic chemical was spilled into the Elk River above Charleston's main water intake on January 9, 2014 which has poisoned our water supply, putting hundreds of thousands at risk of exposure. Our friends and families have reported a chemical odor, vomiting, itchy eyes, and skin rashes due to exposure even after they were told that the water was safe for consumption after following West Virginia American Water's directions for flushing our water systems.

Watch the video to see how you can help! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-Pc8xtfqOI The Great Pacific Garbage patch is essentially an area of plastic and debris in the ocean between California and Hawaii. The North Pacific Subtropical Gyre captures plastic and other debris. A gyre is a large system of rotating currents, essentially like a toilet. A common misconception about the garbage patch is that it is literally an island made of trash floating on the surface of the water. In reality, it is like a galaxy, made up of billions of tiny pieces of plastics that can be deep underwater or on the surface, spread out over many miles. Even though this giant garbage patch is not visible through satellite imagery, many tests have been done to determine it to be around twice the size of Texas, and growing. The volume of plastic debris has increased by 100 times over the past 40 years, according to a study from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego. The debris concentrated in this area causes a multitude of long and short-term problems, harming the marine life and releasing chemicals into the ocean. Many fish and other organisms mistake the colorful bits of plastic for food. Researchers estimate that fish living at intermediate ocean depths in that region ingest between 12,000 and 24,000 tons of plastic each year. Once ingested, the plastic travels through the food chain, harmfully affecting ocean birds and other large marine wildlife. The debris ingested causes starvation, choking, and other impairments. In the Great Pacific Ocean Gyre there is 6 times more plastic than plankton, which the main food for many ocean animals The trash we produce on land accounts for around 80 percent of debris found in the Garbage Patch. Around 65 percent of that is “consumer used plastics that has not been disposed of properly”. The rest comes from recreational boaters, offshore oil rigs, and large cargo ships. Start taking steps to reduce ocean pollution TODAY!

"I am unsympathetic about people trying to use this courtroom as some sort of place to make public statement about their problems." "So here’s the point. 'Environmental Necessity.' If there is somebody leaking oil on a piece of property and you race out in the yard, and you go in and you stop it, and they charge you with trespassing, I’d throw that case out in a heartbeat. That’s what I think of as 'Environmental Necessity.' I don’t think of coming in and chaining yourselves to somebody else’s construction equipment, in order to make sure that TV cameras come out and see you, for whatever purpose, is that type of thing I’m talking about. That doesn’t work. So no, I can’t allow that." -Judge William Collette's statements in court regarding MI CATS community defenders We need to show Judge William Collette and the jurors that the actions of MI CATS "felons" and the like are necessary and just the beginning.

If genetically modified foods are good enough for me and my family then they should be good enough for whomever resides in The White House. Many people, due to grossly disproportionate government funding, do not have the luxury of being able to simply choose these healthier options for their own family, it should be insulting that their tax dollars should pay for 100% organic gardens at the White House. Their tax dollars should be going towards making these same options easily obtainable for their own family. These are our gardens, we own them, and yet many of us are forced to eat genetically modified foods while we pay for others to have healthier options. This is hardly in the interest of the people.

The Obama administration has for years pushed a dangerous “All of the Above” energy plan focused on more drilling, more fracking, and more pipelines and handouts for dirty fuels. In President Obama's election night victory speech last fall, he said to large applause: "We want our children to live in an America ... that isn't threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet.” But unfortunately an “All of the Above” energy plan that includes drilling for more oil, fracking for more gas, and pursuing the myth of “clean coal” virtually guarantees increasing climate change, and a dangerous world left for our children. Even the International Energy Agency has said we have more carbon than we can afford to burn and the US oil boom won't lead to energy independence, in its World Energy Outlook. The investments the oil industry alone is making right now, in line with an “All of the Above” approach, will put us on a path of climate change that goes well beyond the limits for a safe planet. Promoting an All of the Above energy plan that includes increased drilling for oil and gas, while also pushing forward much-needed policies to address greenhouse gas emissions simply won't work. That’s like trying to climb out of a hole with one hand while digging yourself deeper in with the other. We need to stop digging. Ahead of the anticipated announcment of new plans to tackle climate change by the Obama administration, President Obama has an important opportunity to reevaluate the “All of the Above” energy plans and design a new plan that can live up to his own aim: "an America that isn't threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet."

The potential impact is dangerous when we look at the lack of regulation, oversight and willingness to put safety over profits. The negative track record of oil companies to put human and environmental safety over profits needs to stop. Sign this petition to Washington State Governor Jay Inslee and send it to as many people as you can.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has been working on reforms to the outdated and flawed regulations governing oil spill dispersants for more than 13 years, but the Office of Management and Budget has yet to take up its required review. It’s time to move this process along and publish the rule! The systemic flaws in the existing dispersant regulations became tragically clear during the Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010. Because the existing regulations do not require adequate testing and disclosure of information about the dispersants that are allowed to be used, responders authorized the spraying of 1.84 million gallons of chemical dispersants into the Gulf of Mexico with no knowledge of those chemicals’ long-term impacts and effectiveness underwater. Those impacts are still reverberating through the Gulf of Mexico’s ecosystem today, as studies raise troubling concerns about the damage the dispersants have done to underwater marine life. The need for reform of the flawed dispersant regulations is well-established and widely-accepted. The national commission on the Deepwater Horizon incident recommended a revision of the dispersant regulations in its Report to the President. The EPA itself has acknowledged the need for, and sense of urgency around, a reform of the current dispersant regulations. Yet, nearly four years after the catastrophe of the Deepwater Horizon, the government is still dragging its heels in reforming the dispersant regulations to require more testing and information submission. This delay puts coastal communities at risk. Tell the EPA and OMB to hurry up already and publish revisions to the dispersant regulations.

We live in Colorado because it’s a beautiful, special place. We love our mountains. We love to be outdoors. None of that is worth much if you can’t breathe the air.

All nations , colors, & creeds are affected each day by the pollution that's done to our Mother Earth by the Government and the Oil Industry.Hydraulic Fracturing (fracking) is being FALSELY promoted as being safe and un-harmful for the earth, will create tens of thousands of new jobs for Americans, and will lower our at-the-pump prices. In-fact, Fracking is proven to cause life threatening illnesses ,and incurable diseases for ALL living beings on this planet. Also, does irreversible damage to our Mother Earth now and for future generations.

We’re concerned and you should be too. Last fall, when our federal government screeched to a grinding halt we learned that federal environmental inspections and pollution monitoring did too. That was distressing enough. Now, we may have to contend with less enforcement of limits on dangerous pollution by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) own design. Chronic polluters have reason to rejoice while they reign in profits at our expense if EPA reduces their role as cop on the pollution beat. TAKE ACTION to demand EPA keep polluters in check. Tell Administrator Gina McCarthy that you support a fully-staffed EPA enforcement plan. 2013 highlighted a host of environmental challenges from explosions at refineries and fertilizer plants to multiple Exxon oil spills. Last year also marked the fifth Anniversary of the Kingston, TN coal ash spill that devastated still-recovering communities in Tennessee and Alabama. With these challenges in mind, EPA has just as many reasons today to hold industrial polluters to tough oversight as ever before. Reducing enforcement is equivalent to leaving communities overburdened by toxic air and water pollution out in the cold to fend for themselves. Cutting enforcement resources will disproportionately injure communities of color and low-income communities who are more likely to live near polluting industrial facilities. That’s why we have a BIG problem if EPA is deciding to reduce resources for their enforcement team while the stakes remain high. Big polluters already release toxic pollution into our air and water with reckless abandon. One can only imagine how much more these Big Polluters would be emboldened by EPA willingly taking their eyes off the ball. How are fewer inspections a good thing? Who is better protected by less oversight? Certainly not you and your neighbors. Ask Administrator McCarthy to review this Agency report to make sure that the 2014 plan includes more—not less—resources for holding big polluters accountable.