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Tell your senators not to abandon comprehensive climate and energy legislation
Thanks to a handful of Republican and Democratic obstructionist senators, the Senate failed to act on legislation that would have strengthened our economy, increased our national security and reduced the dangerous pollution causing global warming. Tell your senators that you will not accept failure in the face of one of the biggest crises of the 21st century.
Tell your senators not to halt the EPA's ability to hold polluters accountable for global warming pollution
Senator Rockefeller (D-WV) has a plan that would undermine the Clean Air Act and block the Environmental Protection Agency from requiring cuts in global warming pollution for the next four years. Tell your senators to vote No on Senator Rockefeller’s bill (S. 3072) or any other attempt to halt the EPA's ability to hold big polluters accountable.
Californians: Tell your state legislators to protect California's health and environment
Urge your state senator to support and vote YES for SB 797 and SB 722, legislation that would ban the use of BPA in baby products and increase the supply of renewable energy in California. Urge your state senator to support and vote Yes for the Single-Use Bag Reduction Act (AB 1998) which will create a uniform state policy to encourage greater use of reusable bags.
Urge your representative to co-sponsor the Toxic Chemicals Safety Act
The Toxic Chemicals Safety Act would strengthen the current law regulating the use of industrial chemicals, which was enacted in 1976 and is in serious need of an overhaul. Urge your representative to co-sponsor the Toxic Chemical Safety Act (H.R. 5820).
Tell the EPA to strictly regulate dangerous coal ash disposal
The EPA is considering two options to regulate coal ash waste, which contains toxics such as arsenic, chromium, lead and mercury. Urge the EPA before the September 20th comment deadline to choose the stronger option that would set protective and federally enforceable regulations for coal ash disposal.
Tell President Obama to stop letting industry dump mining waste in our waters
Across the Appalachians, coal mining companies are destroying entire mountains in a practice known as mountaintop removal mining and are polluting thousands of miles of streams and rivers as they dump the waste into our waters. Urge President Obama to reinstate the previous longstanding prohibition on dumping mining waste into streams and lakes.
Tell Congress to help end mountaintop removal mining and protect the Appalachian Mountains
Because of weakened provisions in the Clean Water Act, waste from mountaintop removal mining may be dumped into nearby valleys and streams, but now the House of Representatives has the opportunity to restrict this dangerous process. Tell your representative to support and co-sponsor the Clean Water Protection Act (H.R. 1310).
Tell Congress to increase funding for global clean water
Safe drinking water is essential for human health and economic development, but dirty water causes disease and death around the world, especially in children. Tell your senators and representative to increase funding for global clean water projects.
Tell PETCO and PetSmart to protect kids from dangerous pesticides in flea products
Although safer options exist for controlling fleas on our pets, dangerous pesticides used in flea collars and other products remain on store shelves. Tell PETCO and PetSmart to protect kids and pets by removing pet products with these toxic chemicals from its stores.
Urge your representative to co-sponsor the Green Infrastructure for Clean Water Act
Polluted stormwater runoff threatens water quality across the nation, but we can put rain water back into the ground where it falls by increasing natural systems like trees, green roofs and rain gardens. Urge your representative to co-sponsor the Green Infrastructure for Clean Water Act (H.R. 4202).
Tell Congress to close the "Halliburton Loophole" to protect drinking water from contamination
The "Halliburton Loophole" exempts hydraulic fracturing, an oil and gas production method that has been linked to water contamination, from Safe Drinking Water Act regulations. Urge your senators and representative to co-sponsor legislation to repeal the Halliburton Loophole.
Tell your senators to save our waterways from uncontrolled pollution
The Clean Water Restoration Act would restore Clean Water Act protections to vital water bodies declared unprotected because of Supreme Court decisions. Tell your senators to co-sponsor the Clean Water Restoration Act.
Tell the Canadian government that tar sands mining is threatening North America's birds
Tar sands mining and drilling in Canada's boreal forest is destroying critical nesting areas for millions of birds. Tell the Canadian government to halt any expansion of this destructive practice.
Urge the Department of Agriculture to act now to save bees
Although honey bees are crucial to producing about one-third of all the food we eat, the Department of Agriculture has failed to meet crucial research needs to determine the cause of colony collapse disorder, which is devastating hives across the country. Urge the Department of Agriculture to act now to save bees.
Find Your Favorite NRDC website
- Global Warming & Energy:
- Beat the Heat
- Activism:
- Save BioGems
- NRDC Action Fund
- Ocean Protection:
- Your Oceans
- International:
- China's Green Future
- Green, Healthy Living:
- Simple Steps
- Smarter Cities
- This Green Life
- Green Paws
- NRDC Cool Sites:
- GreenDay+NRDC
- For Kids:
- Green Squad