Friends of the Earth is suing the Trump administration to stop Keystone XL on the grounds that it violates the Endangered Species Act. But at the same time, Trump and his enablers in Congress are trying to gut that law -- clearing the way for them to build the pipeline. We need your help to stop them! Tell your Senators: Don't gut the Endangered Species Act and clear the way for Big Oil to build Keystone XL!

Scott Pruitt cut a back-room deal with a coal company that would build the massive Pebble Mine in Bristol Bay Watershed. This mine could generate dangerous waste, wipe out salmon streams and pollute surrounding wetlands, ponds and lakes. We can still stop this disastrous project -- but we need you to speak up NOW! Help us reach 40,000 comments: Stop the EPA from greenlighting Pebble Mine!

I find the proposed cell transmitter(s) (ASG33) on Chartres Drive and Cartier Dr. in Rancho Palos Verdes to incommode my use of my property and the street in the proper senses that it would be situated right next to my property. It will cause inconvenience, distress and/or worry me when passing even near the transmitter pole, let alone living right next to it or walking under and adjacent to the transmitter itself on Cartier Drive and Chartres Drive. The proposed cell transmitter(s) will be ugly, will transmit radio waves at significant intensity to many residents' homes and bodies (including children), and will decrease property values. There is great health concerns for electric and magnetic fields (EMF) and radio frequency (RF) exposure from the cell tower. I am also against the transmitter(s) on aesthetic grounds, and possibly other grounds as well.

Repealing the Clean Water Rule is shortsighted and flies in the face of public opinion. More than 800,000 Americans supported the Clean Water Rule when it was proposed. It is grounded in science and the law. It is an essential tool to help us to get to goal of ensuring all of our waters are swimmable, fishable, and drinkable.

Repealing the Clean Water Rule is shortsighted and flies in the face of public opinion. More than 800,000 Americans supported the Clean Water Rule when it was proposed. It is grounded in science and the law. It is an essential tool to help us to get to goal of ensuring all of our waters are swimmable, fishable, and drinkable.

View and share 2 fantastic videos featuring CAUSE youth and organizers from Oxnard testifying on the toxic impacts of the PPP: https://vimeo.com/204629609 https://www.facebook.com/FusionProjectEarth/videos/1870535536545288/ Oxnard is already "host" to three landfills and the Halaco Superfund site, and those most heavily impacted by the existing and proposed toxic plants are primarily working class immigrant communities of color. According to the California Environmental Justice Alliance (CEJA), within the environmentally overburdened communities in Oxnard, 85% are people of color, 29% lives in "linguistic isolation," 56% lives below two times the federal poverty level, and 46% of those over age 25 have less than high school education. In recognition that NRG corporation continues a long history of environmental racism and injustice wrought on the people of Oxnard through this project--seeking profits over people, bringing further ecological disaster in California and beyond--we believe the P3 (Puente Power Project) should be re-dubbed as poisonous, parasitic and predatory. Poisonous: Each day, about 3 thousand Latino/Mixteco farm workers do stoop labor in fields less than half a mile from the plant site. Nearby, many of their children are among the 3 thousand youth attending schools most likely in the country to be located next to fields doused with toxic pesticides. Not surprisingly, the asthma rates in the most impacted neighborhoods of Oxnard are above the 90th percentile in the state of California. Meanwhile, one in five Oxnard residents has no access to health insurance or care. Thus, Oxnard has been identified in the top 20% of most impacted, disadvantaged communities in the state by the Cal Enviroscreen measure of environmental racism. Parasitic: The existing and proposed power plants force the people of Oxnard to bear the costs and impacts of producing electricity for neighboring cities up and down the coast of California, from Simi Valley to Goleta, including the UCSB campus. We refuse to benefit from, tolerate, perpetuate, or add to the injustices suffered by these communities. Moreover, NRG uses credits from projects run by another company elsewhere to offset their pollution impacts, instead of actually reducing local emissions from their projects. NRG is among the top 10 “large emitter” polluting companies in the country to use these offsets, who accounted for about 36% of the total emissions and 65% of the offsets used.(1) Predatory: The energy industry, including NRG, preys upon California residents by continuing to propose unnecessary power plants, forcing consumers to bear the cost of their construction, purely for energy companies’ profits. A 2017 LA Times investigation revealed that California already has more gas-fired power plants than needed, with many operating below capacity and closing prematurely because we have a surplus of power and projected oversupply of electricity through 2020. Thus, when regulators like the CEC and CPUC allow power companies to continue building more plants, it only guarantees California ratepayers having to absorb the costs through higher rates, even as electricity demand has fallen since 2008. As former president of the CA Public Utilities Commission Loretta Lynch has said: “We’re awash in power at a premium price.”(2) More reasons to oppose the plant: No good jobs! NRG has tried to claim that the project will bring jobs to Oxnard, and Ventura County. But during the February 2017 evidentiary hearings, NRG’s witness testified that workers would be drawn from the larger LA County for construction jobs. How many jobs? A table provided in NRG’s application showed a projected 48 Construction jobs, no Operation jobs, except for 17 from the existing workforce (no new jobs!) and 54 Demolition jobs—but that is only if NRG takes responsibility for removal of the old plants. In other words, there would be about 100 or fewer, temporary jobs (for the duration of the construction and possible demolition) that are not in sustainable, clean energy. The most high-paying, skilled managerial jobs would go to people out of the area since NRG corporate headquarters are located 3,000 miles away in New Jersey. Risks to People, Animal, and Plants, and Wetlands: If the CEC approves the PPP, it will allow NRG to risk the lives, health, and safety of the people of these communities, while it is not their own families or communities who will be at the epicenter of these so-called low risks. Indeed, NRG CEOs can sleep peacefully with their families at night while Oxnard residents face ever-mounting dangers across the country. NRG claims that the threat of health and environmental impacts of the plants will be low, and the risk of disasters such as tsunami and flooding from these disasters and sea level rise is negligible. Yet the California Coastal Commission has unanimously opposed the PPP, citing the risk of flooding at the low-lying coastal location--a growing threat associated with the realities of climate change. Oxnard also has some of the last remaining coastal wetlands in California, which host many endangered species of plants and animals. Not in Step with Clean Energy Mandates: The proposed project is in clear contradiction to the clean energy goals already mandated in California and nationwide to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and find renewable, clean energy alternatives. Instead, it heaps more poison on Oxnard residents and beyond. Many recent initiatives for alternative energy solutions have been legislated and are already underway in California, and in the region, that should continue to be developed. SB32 requires greater greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction measures so that direct emission reductions should be achieved after the year 2020. Its companion legislation, AB197, requires the Air Resources Board to prioritize “direct emission reductions” to achieve these reductions beyond the 2020 limit. These mea...

Since their release back to the wild in 1998, the Mexican gray wolf, also known as the Lobo, has struggled to recover. After almost 20 years, there are still only just over 100 individuals in the wild. Many obstacles face the Lobo on their road to recovery, including poaching, politics, and constantly declining genetic diversity. The US Fish and Wildlife Service’s (FWS) very own Science and Planning Subgroup said to fully restore the Lobo, there must be at minimum 750 wolves in three distinct populations, including in the Grand Canyon region in northern Arizona and southern Utah and the Southern Rockies region in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado. Despite these recommendations, FWS just released their new Draft Mexican Wolf Recovery Plan that authorizes downlisting these severally endangered wolves only after their population reaches 320 for four years and completely delisting the Lobo after 8 years. This is just half the population recommended by the agency’s own scientists. This draft recovery plan is a sham that was created behind closed doors and is not based on science. We need more wolves, less politics! For more information, visit Lobos of the Southwest and the Endangered Species Coalition: http://www.endangered.org/because-loboweek-a-brief-look-at-the-plight-of-the-mexican-gray-wolf/ http://mexicanwolves.org/index.php/news/1780/51/ACT-NOW-Submit-Comments-on-the-Mexican-Wolf-Draft-Recovery-Plan

Donald Trump is about to propose more massive cuts to the EPA. The cuts would gut water protections, support for state environmental programs, and the Superfund clean up program. Congress still has to sign off on these cuts -- so we need your help to stop them! Tell your Senators: Don't gut the EPA!

Donald Trump signed an Executive Order threatening Giant Sequoia National Monument with fossil fuel development. Tell the Department of the Interior: NO fossil fuel development in Giant Sequoia!

Last month, Donald Trump signed an Executive Order threatening Mojave Trails National Monument with fossil fuel development. The Department of the Interior is accepting public comments on whether to let Big Oil destroy Mojave Trails. So we need you to speak up NOW and help save this special place! Help us reach 50,000 comments: NO fossil fuel development in Mojave Trails!

Donald Trump signed an Executive Order threatening Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument with fossil fuel development. The Department of the Interior is accepting public comments on whether to let Big Oil destroy Grand Staircase-Escalante. So we need you to speak up NOW and help save this special place! Help us reach 50,000 comments: NO fossil fuel development in Grand Staircase-Escalante!

The GMO apple could hit supermarkets this fall. It could pose health risks, hurt farmers and damage our environment. The USDA should be stopping risky new products like this. But the agency is using 20-year old rules to review them. We need your help to change that! Tell the USDA: Fix the rules to protect our health, farmers and the environment from risky GMOs!