After the fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas, last week killed 15 people, including workers and volunteer firefighters, and injured 150 more people, Gov. Rick Perry said he's comfortable with current government regulation of such facilities. This is absurd. We need stronger safeguards to keep our communities safe from more deadly accidents like this one. Sign our petition to the president and urge him to make this a priority.

Genetically Engineered food is destroying the health of the people in America. The use of toxic pesticides are killing off necessary insects and pollinators, such as the honey bee who pollinates one third of the food we eat. These pesticides are entering and destroying our bodies in two ways, in our food and in the polluted water we drink.

Duke Energy and the state of North Carolina need to invest in renewable energy and biomimicry inspired energy systems to create a clean, sustainable, and profitable future for ourselves and our children.

Polls show that 91 percent of consumers don’t want the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to allow genetically engineered fish and meat into the marketplace -- yet the FDA is close to approving a salmon that was genetically engineered to grow faster. If allowed, this would be the first genetically engineered animal in the U.S. food supply, and the FDA said it will probably NOT BE LABELED, leaving consumers in the dark about what we are eating. At least 35 species of genetically engineered fish are in development and the approval of genetically engineered salmon will set a precedent that could open the floodgates for other genetically engineered animals (including cows, chickens and pigs) to enter our food system. To ensure the consumer’s right to know what they are eating, Friends of the Earth is asking grocery stores, seafood restaurants, chefs and seafood companies to demonstrate their commitment to sustainably produced seafood and consumer choice by joining our Pledge for GE-Free Seafood, a commitment to not knowingly purchase or sell genetically engineered salmon or other genetically engineered seafood should it come to market. Nearly a dozen major food retailers with thousands of stores nationwide have already taken the Pledge for GE-Free Seafood or otherwise committed to not purchase or sell genetically engineered salmon, or any products containing genetically engineered seafood. But we need more to take the pledge. Help us pressure food companies to keep genetically engineered seafood off their shelves and off our plates. Take action now!

An unprecedented fracking boom is being sped along by industry deregulation. Loopholes secured by the oil and gas industry allow companies to sidestep our basic environmental laws and emit more than their fair share of air and water pollution. Two bills introduced in Congress would change this. The FRESHER Act would eliminate a Clean Water Act exemption that allows oil and gas to sidestep the same stormwater runoff permitting requirements that every other industry meets. The BREATHE Act would eliminate an unfair loophole in the Clean Air Act for oil and gas companies. Please ask your members of Congress to support the FRESHER and BREATHE Acts!

An unprecedented fracking boom is being sped along by industry deregulation. Loopholes secured by the oil and gas industry allow companies to sidestep our basic environmental laws and emit more than their fair share of air and water pollution. Two bills introduced in Congress would change this. The FRESHER Act would eliminate a Clean Water Act exemption that allows oil and gas to sidestep the same stormwater runoff permitting requirements that every other industry meets. The BREATHE Act would eliminate an unfair loophole in the Clean Air Act for oil and gas companies. Please ask your members of Congress to support the FRESHER and BREATHE Acts

The oil and gas billionaire Koch brothers are trying to purchase the Orlando Sentinel! It’s part of a larger bid to buy the Tribune Company’s media assets, which includes TV stations and major newspapers across the country in addition to the Sentinel. The Koch brothers—David and Charles—are fossil fuel barons who have devoted their fortunes to bankrolling climate change denial, union busting, and the Tea Party. Now, they want to expand their radical right-wing propaganda to communities across the country by “Fox-news-ifying” local papers like the Sentinel. Orlando Sentinel readers and other Tribune company customers are key stakeholders in the decision. By showing Tribune Company executives that the public counts on them for accurate and informative journalism, we can help persuade them not to sell to climate change deniers. We can’t allow respected journalistic institutions to become mouthpieces for the Kochs’ corrupt agenda.

This petition is about saving the wildlife and the environment. As you all know phonebook are really thick and they take up a large amount of paper. Which comes too cutting down more trees and leaving wildlife roaming around the cities trying to survive. Further more that leads up to wild animal attacks and injuries. Please sign this petition to protect the wildlife, more efficient land use and less consumption of paper.

The oil and gas billionaire Koch brothers are trying to purchase the South Florida Sun-Sentinel! It’s part of a larger bid to buy the Tribune Company’s media assets, which includes TV stations and major newspapers across the country in addition to the Sun-Sentinel. The Koch brothers—David and Charles—are fossil fuel barons who have devoted their fortunes to bankrolling climate change denial, union busting, and the Tea Party. Now, they want to expand their radical right-wing propaganda to communities across the country by “Fox-news-ifying” local papers like the Sun-Sentinel. South Florida Sun-Sentinel readers and other Tribune company customers are key stakeholders in the decision. By showing Tribune Company executives that the public counts on them for accurate and informative journalism, we can help persuade them not to sell to climate change deniers. We can’t allow respected journalistic institutions to become mouthpieces for the Kochs’ corrupt agenda.

Keep Oak Cliff Beautiful volunteers are frustrated by the number of plastic shopping bags they find amongst the litter pulled out of creek beds and roadsides and have made this “bag ban” a priority for Dallas, TX.

In 1959, the U.S. Congress designated Dyke Marsh as part of the National Park system, "so that fish and wildlife development and their preservation as wetland wildlife habitat shall be paramount." These wetlands provide crucial habitat to migratory and resident waterfowl and other birds, as well as numerous other animals and plants. Dyke Marsh, along the Potomac River in the Alexandria section of Fairfax County, Virginia, has lost at least 100 acres since 1937 and continues to lose 1.5 to 2 acres a year. According to a U.S. Geological Survey study, Dyke Marsh could disappear completly.

In just over a decade, “fracking” for oil and gas has spread rapidly across many states, leaving a trail of contaminated water, polluted air, and marred landscapes in its wake. And now there’s a major push to bring fracked gas to Maine. Republican House Leader Ken Fredette and the Democratic Chair of the Energy Committee, Sen. John Cleveland, are sponsoring a bill (LD 1187) that aims to build a new pipeline to bring fracked gas from the Marcellus Shale (in Pennsylvania and surrounding states) to Maine. 

In addition, Rep. Fredette has a second bill (LD 1262) that would force Mainers — not the oil and gas industry — to pay for it. 
 
Maine’s legislative leaders have strong track records on the environment, but right now the bills are moving forward under the radar screen, and a backroom “deal” is in the works. We need to put a stop to it right now by shining a light on it. Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, involves pumping millions of gallons of water mixed with sand and a cocktail of chemicals into the ground at such high pressure that it fractures rock and releases gas. 

In numerous states, it's become one of the greatest threats to the environment in decades.