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.

Donald Trump is about to propose massive cuts to our renewable energy programs. He's aiming to slash vital programs promoting renewable power and energy efficiency by more than 70%. But Congress still has to sign off on these cuts -- so we need your help to stop them! Tell your Senators: Don't gut our renewable energy programs!

Donald Trump signed an Executive Order threatening the Marianas Trench Marine National Monument with fossil fuel development. The Department of the Interior is accepting public comments on whether to let Big Oil destroy this precious marine Monument. So we need you to speak up and help save this special place! Tell the Secretary of the Interior: NO fossil fuel development in Marianas Trench!

For nearly 50 years, the National Environmental Policy Act—NEPA—has been an empowering legal tool that allows communities to defend themselves and their environment from dangerous, rushed or poorly planned federal or industry projects. Our oldest environmental law ensures that your community has a say when special interests want to build a toxic waste incinerator in your neighborhood or a dangerous pipeline next to your child’s school. But over time, polluter interests and their allies in Congress have tried to gut this protection. Your representatives are accountable to you—not to polluting industries. Tell them to stand up for NEPA now! Over the past six years, 180 pieces of legislation have sought to weaken or waive NEPA protections. Some leaders in the 115th Congress have signaled their interest in attacking NEPA, and with President Trump’s appointment of an anti-regulatory cabinet, the attacks are bound to have devastating impacts. NEPA is woven so deeply into our framework that we often take it for granted. It’s so fundamental to our democratic process that it’s considered the “environmental Magna Carta.” Dirty industries and their advocates in Congress who seek to undermine our basic protections know they can’t do it head on by sponsoring legislation to eliminate NEPA. They’ve tried that strategy repeatedly and failed. Now they’re employing strategies to weaken NEPA instead, such as mandating special NEPA waivers for some projects or industries, cutting down the time periods for public comment or agency review, or imposing arbitrary deadlines no matter how complex the issue. Lawmakers attach these sneak attacks to important, must-pass bills, such as infrastructure funding bills. If they’re successful, informed decision making and the ability of people to defend themselves from government and corporate overreach will suffer. This “death by a thousand cuts” has been going on for years. Some lawmakers and corporations malign NEPA as “bad for business.” They omit, however, that NEPA reduces public controversy, builds consensus with local officials and ensures that projects are done correctly from the start, often saving time and money. Moreover, government data shows that for decades the U.S. economy has expanded even as environmental rules continue to protect public health and the wildlands and wildlife our country needs to thrive. It’s time to face the facts and stop vilifying NEPA. Tell your representatives in Congress that your right to be heard is not negotiable. Urge them to protect NEPA—your voice!

The 2,000-mile stretch of land between the U.S. and Mexico contains one of the most diverse ecosystems in North America with wildlife such as the endangered Mexican gray wolf, jaguar, bighorn sheep, and ocelot calling it home. It is also where President Trump wants to build a 30-foot border wall. Not only will a wall between the U.S. and Mexico be disastrous for wildlife and the environment, but it will also threaten the economy and communities living along the border. We need your help to stop it. Politicians in Washington D.C. are looking to fund the construction of Trump’s wall in the U.S.-Mexico border through unprecedented and underhanded legislative gimmicks. A vote to fund a border wall will soon go up for a vote in the House and we need you to tell your representative to oppose any efforts to fund it. Construction of a wall is likely to create roadblocks in the migration paths of several threatened and endangered species and will also hinder the natural flow of waterways which could cause devastating flooding, endangering border communities and wildlife. The border wall is yet another gimmick used by the Trump administration to intimidate communities, particularly Latino and immigrant ones, from exercising their civil rights, including their right to a healthy environment. It is a symbol of fear that would come at the expense of our public lands, wildlife and environmental safeguards that protect border and immigrant communities. It’s justified by fiction, relying on the notion that our border communities must be militarized and somehow deserve fewer protections under the law. A wall is a distraction from the very real issues border communities face, and a waste of money. Our border communities need funding for schools, environmental clean-up and wildlife protection, not a divisive wall. Tell Congress to fund communities and natural landscapes, not senseless walls.