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Urge the Department of Agriculture to act now to save bees

Congress is scheduled to vote on comprehensive energy legislation in the coming days. Urge your senators and representative to pass legislation that focuses on clean energy technologies and does not expand offshore drilling.

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Urge your senators to clean up our beaches

Congress can help clean up contaminated beaches and to make sure sources of beach pollution are identified and addressed. Urge your senators to pass the Beach Protection Act.

Californians: Speak out for fishing conservation and fair insurance

Tell the California Resources Agency to ensure that new fishing rules promote conservation. Also, ask officials to require insurance companies to offer a Pay As You Drive policy to Californians.

Urge your senators to ratify the Law of the Sea Treaty

The Senate may soon consider whether the United States should sign the Law of the Sea Treaty, which would allow the country to more effectively influence debates on expanding ocean protection. Urge your senators to ratify the Law of the Sea Treaty.

Tell Congress to help protect the beautiful Appalachian Mountains from mountaintop removal mining

Congress is considering legislation that would effectively restrict the destructive dumping of mountaintop removal mining waste into Appalachia's streams and valleys. Send a message this week urging your representative to co-sponsor the bill and curtail mountaintop removal mining.

Tell your representative not to reverse important protections against dirty fuels

Coal industry supporters in Congress have introduced legislation that would repeal important provisions of the 2007 energy bill that prevent federal agencies from purchasing liquid coal and other dirty fuels. Urge your representative to oppose any legislation that would reverse these important protections.

Urge your representative to co-sponsor an important ocean protection bill

Decades of overfishing, pollution, aggressive invasive species and severe habitat loss are threatening our oceans, yet we have no comprehensive national law to address these problems. Tell your representative to support a bill that would protect and restore our oceans and the economies that rely on them.

Urge the Navy to stop harming whales with high-intensity sonar

Although the Navy agreed to limit its use of low-frequency sonar, it continues to blast the world's oceans with mid-frequency sonar, which can be just as harmful to whales and other marine mammals. Tell the Navy to turn off the noise.