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The Public Lands Rule Falls Victim to the Dirty Energy Agenda

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A Weakened USDA Will Hurt Small Farmers (and Everyone Else)

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A Mammoth Biomass Project Withers in California 

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The Environmental Justice Movement

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Trump Administration Readies the Axe for Nearly 60 Million Acres of Public Forests

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The Uinta Basin Railway Would Be a Bigger Carbon Bomb Than Willow

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Trump's EPA is trying to end its own ability to combat climate change

The EPA is attempting to reverse the legal finding that requires the government to protect people from climate-busting pollutants, including carbon dioxide, methane, and four others. Submit a public comment before September 22 demanding that the agency uphold their mandate to protect us.

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Petition

Tell the Trump administration to reverse its plans to open up our forests to destructive logging!

The Trump administration is pushing to open nearly 50 million acres of national forests to logging and road building by repealing the Roadless Rule—yet another assault on our public lands to make corporations richer. The USDA will be seeking public comments on its ruinous proposal for just a few days. We need as many people as possible to speak out NOW.

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Petition

Our seas aren’t gas stations

U.S. energy company Mexico Pacific has been trying to turn a marine sanctuary—home to nearly 40 percent of all marine mammal species—into a gas station and shipping channel for liquefied natural gas. Tell Mexico Pacific to reverse its plans to export dirty energy out of the Gulf of California.

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