A new report shows direct ties between hardwood flooring giant Lumber Liquidators, organized crime, and the illegal logging of the habitat of the last 450 Siberian Tigers. This shameless disregard for the last few remaining members of the species in pursuit of cheap flooring is not only disgusting, it's illegal under American law and has prompted a federal investigation. Lumber Liquidators needs to immediately and irrevocably take action to improve due diligence and bring itself into compliance with the Lacey Act. It must eliminate forest illegality, destruction and human rights violations from its supply chain. Lumber Liquidators must cut supply chain ties with Xingjia, the supplier which is the source of this illegal hardwood, and adopt and implement a comprehensive procurement policy that ensures the company will never again be involved in destroying old growth and endangered forests, abuse of human rights and run away climate change.

As Ameren customers, we acknowledge that our energy use has an acute impact on that environment, and that Missouri residents living closest to Ameren’s coal plants bear the greatest burden of that impact and that Ameren is in the business of making money for its investors and executives. But Ameren is doing this at the expense of the health and well-being of local residents. Ameren relies almost entirely on dirty, out-of-state coal to generate electricity, poisoning our air and water in Jefferson County in the process. Currently, Ameren is able to pollute almost limitlessly. Ameren’s plants lack pollution controls for dangerous sulfur dioxide, a pollutant that contributes to severe respiratory illnesses. Ameren is just starting to monitor groundwater at its existing coal ash pond at Rush Island, and has not yet produced any data. Although Ameren’s own documents concede that coal ash is already sitting in the groundwater at the existing ash pond, Ameren has no plans to clean that up before building a new landfill directly above the ash pond. Now, Ameren is trying to rush through proposals to build a new landfill for coal ash without informing or protecting our communities.

The people of Collingwood Bay have built their culture and livelihoods around the primary forest and pristine marine environment that surrounds their community in Papua New Guinea. Now their way of life and ancestral lands are under attack by palm oil giant KLK, which has already landed a barge with palm oil seeds and security personnel in Collingwood Bay. HSBC is a principal bank to KLK, and has the power to stop this entire land grab in its tracks. Please demand HSBC take immediate action to halt KLK's theft of the Collingwood Bay community's land.

Communities living near contaminated sites have the right to know what’s in their food and water. For nearly a decade, Georgia communities near the Savannah River Site nuclear weapons complex, one of the most toxic facilities in the country, have gone without robust information about contaminants in their food and water due to lack of funding for environmental testing in Georgia.

Too many of my friends and family have cancer or unexplainable birth defects.

Newspapers need to stop publishing letters that deny climate change caused by human burning of fossil fuels.

Newspapers need to stop publishing letters that deny climate change.

The rising Radiation levels will affect all of us as a nation. We have a right to know the truth about the contamination in this country from the Fukushima Nuclear Reactor disaster in Japan. Ocean life is already showing signs of what exposure to Radiation has caused. It is our right to know what we are facing and what if anything we can do to protect our children.

Newspapers need to stop publishing letters that deny climate change.

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Newspapers need to stop publishing letters that deny climate change. Climate change has been conclusively demonstrated. Deniers are variously engaged in misinterpretating facts, ignorantly repeating misinformation, or outright lying. Publishing their claims is not journalism.

Newspapers need to stop publishing letters that deny climate change. Other newspapers have adopted this sensible policy. The Buffalo News should also.