Law enforcement in North Carolina is devoting substantial resources in the search for Rain, a baby goat rescued from a meat farm. Rain was suffering from pneumonia at a meat farm where animals had previously been seen collapsed on the ground in their own filth. Rain received emergency medical care and is today happy and healthy. But the Sheriff in Transylvania County is now threatening animal caretakers with felonies -- including a mother with two children -- unless Rain is sent back for slaughter. I have played with goats, and they have the same feelings as a dog or cat. I don’t want to see Rain, who has already suffered so much, sent back to an abusive place, and I’m respectfully asking the Sheriff to call off the hunt for Rain and drop all charges against activists who helped to rescue him.

The NJ BEAR Group and our coalition of supporters asks Governor Murphy to honor his sacred promise and put a moratorium on the New Jersey bear hunt. We also ask our NJ legislature to enact and embrace bear smart legislation (for example Pedals Law). This legislation includes educating residents on ways to peacefully coexist with black bears. Containment of artificial food sources like garbage and bird feeders is key. Hunters are allowed to bait and shoot all bears including mothers and cubs with human food including doughnuts. Bows and arrows are allowed. This is cruel as this weapon has about a 50% wounding rate. For more information visit our websites: www.savenjbears.com www.bearsmartnj.org Like our Facebook page @savenjbears

To decrease the amount of plastic that ends up in landfills and oceans. At least 100 million marine mammals die due to plastic pollution in a year and effects at least 700 marine species. The environment should be one of our top priorities due to all of the industry that is happening in our modern day world.

I've picked up needles and weapons. I would like to walk my dog one day and not worry about my dog getting stuck.

The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service just released a revised management plan for highly endangered red wolves. As few as 30 of these animals exist in the wild, making them one of the world's most endangered wolves. In spite of the urgent need to work to recover this species, Secretary Ryan Zinke and his political appointees at the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) will radically scale back the already meager efforts to bring them back in the wild. The plan calls for the reduction of protected habitat to just one county in North Carolina (Dare County, NC). This would effectively reduce their available range by a staggering 90%. More shocking, the USFWS will allow private landowners to kill these highly endangered wolves if they leave protected refuges and enter private property. Please sign the petition to Secretary Zinke asking him to revise this flawed and dangerous plan that could push red wolves into extinction. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2018/06/27/interior-plans-to-let-people-to-kill-endangered-red-wolves/

The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service just released a revised management plan for highly endangered red wolves. As few as 30 of these animals exist in the wild, making them one of the world's most endangered wolves. In spite of the urgent need to work to recover this species, Secretary Ryan Zinke and his political appointees at the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) will radically scale back the already meager efforts to bring them back in the wild. The plan calls for the reduction of protected habitat to just one county in North Carolina (Dare County, NC). This would effectively reduce their available range by a staggering 90%. More shocking, the USFWS will allow private landowners to kill these highly endangered wolves if they leave protected refuges and enter private property. Please sign the petition to Secretary Zinke asking him to revise this flawed and dangerous plan that could push red wolves into extinction.

The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service just released a revised management plan for highly endangered red wolves. As few as 30 of these animals exist in the wild, making them one of the world's most endangered wolves. In spite of the urgent need to work to recover this species, Secretary Ryan Zinke and his political appointees at the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) will radically scale back the already meager efforts to bring them back in the wild. The plan calls for the reduction of protected habitat to just one county in North Carolina (Dare County, NC). This would effectively reduce their available range by a staggering 90%. More shocking, the USFWS will allow private landowners to kill these highly endangered wolves if they leave protected refuges and enter private property. Please sign the petition to Secretary Zinke asking him to revise this flawed and dangerous plan that could push red wolves into extinction.

In 2016, the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) in conjunction with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) and the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) announced a plan to increase daily trips on the Amtrak Hiawatha line from Chicago to Milwaukee. Their plan includes a proposal to build a new 2-mile long holding track in Glenview to help facilitate the flow of freight trains in and out of nearby freight yards. The plans were announced in an official planning document called an Environmental Assessment (EA). But the EA only included information about the impacts of increasing Amtrak trains. None of the health, safety and environmental impacts of the proposed freight train holding track were addressed. The Glenview ACTION (Alliance to Control Train Impact on Our Neighborhoods) Committee was formed to demand that the significant impacts of a freight train holding track are studied before the project is built.

This year’s bee die-off numbers are out, and the news isn’t good. Bees are still dying at alarming rates. And it’s largely due to bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticides. If we want to stop the massive bee losses, we need to get these pesticides out of our food system. Kroger plays a key role in this fight. It could stop selling food grown with toxic pesticides. But we need YOU to help make that happen! Add your name: Demand that Kroger takes action on toxic pesticides NOW!

Western Environmental Law Center is a nonprofit, public-interest environmental law firm. Our expert attorneys are committed to fighting in court to help these majestic cats thrive in the wild throughout the Rocky Mountains.

Plastic straws contain BPA (Bisphenol A), which is an industrial chemical that is colorless, and poorly soluble in water. When the fish are exposed to the toxins, they acquire them, then we eat the fish, taking in a much higher and stronger concentration of BPA via bio magnification. Aside from the dangers that this plastic poses to humans, the effects they have on aquatic life is detrimental. The straws are ingested by different species of sea life that then suffocate on the straws and killing the animals. Fish in the North Pacific Ocean alone ingest 12,000 to 24,000 tons of plastic each year. Please sign this petition and join our journey so we can get rid of plastic straws!

Donald Trump greenlighted Keystone XL as part of his efforts to make it easier for Big Oil companies like TransCanada to put our air, water and climate at risk -- all so they can make more profits. Together, we’re fighting back. Friends of the Earth members like you are helping take Trump to court to stop this pipeline. We’re pulling out all the stops to prevent Trump from handing over our environment to TransCanada. But at the same time, we need to keep up the public pressure to stop this project. Send your comment before the June 25th deadline: Say NO to Keystone XL!