After meeting with Dow Chemical, Trump's EPA turned its back on our children and reversed its decision to ban the dangerous pesticide, chlorpyrifos. Listed as a neurotoxin by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, this potent chemical has been connected to permanent and lasting brain damage, autism, ADHD, declines in IQ and reduced cognitive function in young kids whose mothers were exposed during pregnancy. Public health experts from Harvard and Mt. Sinai Hospital are seeing these health issues on the rise among children, calling it a “silent pandemic.” More than 1 million pounds of this chemical is applied in California every year on crops like corn, soy, almonds, oranges and grapes, so a California ban would send a strong message to the rest of the country. Jerry Brown has the chance to lead where Trump has failed. We need him to prioritize the health of our children before this brain-harming pesticide and Dow Chemical’s profits.

After meeting with Dow Chemical, Trump's EPA turned its back on our children and reversed its decision to ban the dangerous pesticide, chlorpyrifos. This chemical has been linked to nervous system damage, autism, ADHD and lower IQ in young kids. More than 1 million pounds of this poison is applied to crops in California every year, so a CA ban would send a strong message to the rest of the country. Jerry Brown has the chance to lead where Trump has failed. We need him to know the health of our children comes before Dow's profits.

President Trump signed an executive order in April that endangers five marine monuments and six national marine sanctuaries in the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, and Great Lakes that protect clean and healthy areas for recreation and wildlife. Oil exploration and drilling, deep sea mining, or intensive commercial fishing could soon be permitted in these places and threaten marine wildlife like whales, seals, seabirds, sea turtles, and recovering fish populations. We can’t let that happen; industrializing these places would take us back, not forward. Our marine monuments and sanctuaries are home to diverse, abundant ocean life and are of significant scientific, historic and cultural value. They contain rare species, endangered marine mammals, seabirds, and sea turtles. Some have pristine coral reefs. Others are spiritually significant to native communities. In many cases, local economies depend on these ocean parks to boost tourism, enable recreation, and conserve healthy fish populations. A public comment period is open until August 15th for you to tell the Trump administration and Secretary of Commerce, Wilbur Ross, who will make recommendations about protecting or trashing these places, how YOU feel about this threat. Please sign this petition to support our monuments and sanctuaries!

The Keystone-XL pipeline is just one permit away from having all the paperwork it needs to be built. Donald Trump may have given the Federal go-ahead as soon as he took office, but the Nebraska Public Service Commission can stop the pipeline in its tracks by rejecting the route that pipeline company TransCanada has proposed. This is a key opportunity to say no to fossil fuels and corporate power of our rights, as Keystone-XL threatens to pollute our water, wreck our climate, and run roughshod over native rights to their land. Call on the Nebraska Public Service Commission to reject the route!

We need to act NOW to save Hahamongna. There is a 45 day review period for the revised EIR which extends until September 7th. The fate of Hahamongna will be decided by the County Board of Supervisors, which must act to certify that the entire EIR is in compliance with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). This is the time for those who care about Hahamongna to speak up, hold the Supervisors accountable, and ensure that the sediment removal program is reshaped along more sustainable and environmentally sensitive lines. *Please SHARE this petition with your neighbors and friends- help us get the word out!*

The Department of Agriculture is on the front lines of the climate crisis. Trump has appointed Sam Clovis as its chief scientist. But Clovis is a racist climate denier, not a scientist. Clovis has an ugly history of racist and anti-science rants.In a 2011 blog post, Clovis called progressives "race traitors." Just months before, he criticized Hurricane Katrina survivors, attributing their hardships to a “cultural” failure. Like Trump he believes climate change is "junk science." We can't have a bush-league Rush Limbaugh leading the USDA's science programs. The Department of Agriculture is on the front lines of the climate crisis, responsible for helping farmers deal with droughts and floods — and for cutting the huge amount of greenhouse pollution produced by industrial agriculture. Not only that, the USDA includes the U.S. Forest Service, which is responsible for dealing with a maelstrom of climate-change disasters devastating our national forests, from pinebark beetles to year-round wildfires. Furthermore, the agency feeds the nation and fights poverty and structural racism - its food-assistance programs provide food to over 40 million low-income and homeless people, including over 5.7 million black households with over 2 million black children. There are already signs that Sam Clovis is having a dangerous impact at USDA, where he currently serves as a senior advisor. In January, he signed off on a memo to the department’s scientists banning them from publishing fact sheets, documents, and press releases with their findings. United States Code requires that the USDA's chief scientist be chosen from "distinguished scientists with specialized training or significant experience in agricultural research, education, and economics." Clovis has no such experience. We have the power to stop Clovis' confirmation dead in its tracks. This is our chance to prevent this ugly racist from being elevated to a position with significant power over the future of our nation.

The Trump Administration just found a new low in its attacks on science! In July, the top climate policy official at the Department of the Interior, Joel Clement, went public with a whistleblower complaint after he was demoted to an accounting office. Now his career is on the line, and the integrity of one of our Nation’s most critical defenses against climate disruption is at stake. Clement filed a formal whistleblower complaint and Senators on both sides of the aisle are now pushing for an investigation. His story is quickly gaining media attention, but with so much noise in the national conversation, we can help ensure that attention stays focused on Clement and the more than 50 others forced from their jobs at the Department. Sign the petition to Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke demanding that he return Clement to his important work – and we’ll hand-deliver it to Department officials.

The PA Senate passed a budget that devastates the environment and trades off DEP authority over fracking for a weak severance tax. An alternative has been proposed that calls itself a People's Budget that establishes a severance tax with no strings attached. Neither alternative is acceptable. We have been spared the institutionalization of fracking because we have no severance tax. Instead, we've had an impact fee that has been misappropriated, like the community that used impact fee dollars to bring an American Idol contestant to town for a concert. Seriously. http://www.paauditor.gov/press-releases/auditor-general-depasquale-says-gas-drilling-impact-fee-law-must-be-amended-to-clarify-spending-guidelines-improve-oversight Harrisburg exists in a bubble immune from the more than 900 peer-reviewed studies that make a case for a ban, the science on climate change that could not be clearer at this point, and the impacts that have devastated communities. Governor Tom Wolf has done everything in his power to EXPAND the market for natural gas and ethane when reasonable public officials outside of the bubble are committing to transitioning away from all fossil fuels as quickly as possible. Don't be duped by the People's Budget alternative. A real People's Budget would contain real solutions to fund education and other important programs, not tie them to a boom/bust industry. Please sign the petition, share it, and then call your legislators to tell them to vote NO to any severance tax proposal.

In 2018, wild horses are in danger of heading to the slaughter houses. If we can tell congress to think of better solutions under the new budget now in place we won't see them end up in our super market. People cherish our nation's Wild Horses and we all need to tell congress that by thinking of a better solution than to have them slaughtered there are other ways to deal with the 2018 budget.

Doald Trump just signed an Executive Order that could open protected areas of our ocean to oil drilling. If Big Oil is allowed to drill in our oceans, it will be only a matter of time before the next oil disaster! We need your help to stop Trump's plan. Tell your Senators: Stop Trump from allowing oil drilling in protected areas of our ocean!

Last month, Donald Trump signed an Executive Order threatening Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears National Monument with fossil fuel development. The Department of the Interior is accepting public comments on whether to let Big Oil destroy Bears Ears. So we need you to speak up NOW and help save this special place! Tell the Department of the Interior: NO fossil fuel development in Bears Ears!

I am a teacher and have seen how experiences in nature have changed children's lives. I also know that failing to protect swaths of natural lands will compromise all of our lives on this planet.