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🌼😊🍀Please ask your school, university, city, county or state to pass the actions below, if they have not yet.
We can help. Please reach out to us at CleanEarth4Kids.org.
🍀 A. Stop toxic pesticides to protect our children, water, birds and wildlife, ecosystems, healthy soils, environment and climate.
Join hundreds of cities, counties, universities, schools, HOAs… that do not allow toxic pesticides.
Use the City of Malibu’s Earth Friendly Management policy as an example of IPM (Integrated Pest Management) plan that stops synthetic/man-made pesticides and fertilizers in the city limits. Please watch this video on Pesticide Free Parks.
🔎CleanEarth4Kids.org Team 5 Stop Toxic Pesticides page
🌼Call or send a message to your US representative to support PACTPA (Protect America’s Children From Toxic Pesticides). Click here to find your representative.
🌼Call or email Consuelo Martinez, Escondido City Councilmember District 1
contcmartinez@escondido.org. 760-839-4638
Example:
Dear Councilmember Martinez,
Please stop toxic pesticides on public land in Escondido. All kids, people, birds and wildlife should be safe in Escondido. Our air, water and land should be safe, not poisonous.
🌼Tell the EPA to restrict toxic noenicitinoid pesticides that are wiping out bees and other pollinators and threatening our food supply. Click here to sign the petition.
🍀 B. Please pass a public smoking ban, like the city of Encinitas, CA, and others.
Please pass a multi-family building ordinance to stop smoking and vaping.
Please stop the sale of all smoking products, like Manhattan Beach, Beverly Hills and others. Protect our lungs, hearts, brains and lives from toxic 2nd and 3rd hand smoke.
(Cigarette butts, e-cigarettes and vapes are toxic plastic waste that poison water, birds, wildlife and our environment.)
🔎Team 3: Smoking and Vaping Hurt Your Lungs page of CleanEarth4Kids.org
🔎 Team 3: Clean Air Saves Lives page of CleanEarth4Kids.org
🍀 C. Please protect our health from toxic wood smoke. Please stop wood smoke on public land and stop wood burning fireplaces & stoves in new construction.
Please click here for our Stop Wood Smoke video, created by Judith on our Youth Board.
🔎 More Info Team3: No Wood Smoke page
🍀 D. Please stop plastic grass/artificial/synthetic turf. Toxic chemicals, PFAS “forever chemicals,” lead, and heavy metals have been found. Synthetic turf has a much higher injury rate. That is why the NFL players union wants to play on real grass and the US Women’s Soccer Team sued to play on real grass like the US men’s team.
🔎More Info on Team 5: Stop Synthetic/Artificial Turf page, Team 5: Stop PFAS on CleanEarth4Kids.org
🍀 E. Stop the sale, use and storage of leaded aviation fuel. There is NO safe level of lead. Please click here to sign on to our letter.
Lead is especially toxic to children and fetal development. It damages children's brains and nervous system, lowers IQ scores, slows their growth and development, harms muscle coordination, speech, language and causes behavior problems. And these impacts are lifelong.
Approximately 70% of airborne lead in the U.S. comes from piston-engine aircraft. These aircraft are the largest remaining source of lead pollution in our air.
Click here for more info, or info from the World Health Organization, Centers for Disease Control and the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Help us #GetTheLeadOut!
🍀 F. Please set a 100% renewable energy goal and please pass a building electrification ordinance.
#ElectricNotGas #ElectrifyEverything #CleanAirSavesLives #ClimateAction
Natural gas (methane) is a dangerous air pollutant that harms lungs and climate.
Here is a link to our Dangers of Natural Gas video, created by our youth.
🔎 More Info on our Team 3: Clean Air Page and our Action Plan for Cities…
🍀 G. Clean Air Saves Lives. Please install No Idling and No smoking signs.
🔎 More Info: Team3: No Idling Page, Team 3: Clean Air Page, and Contests pages on CleanEarth4Kids.org.
🌼😊🍀Please help us support important Bills to protect public health, clean air and water, healthy soils, pollinators and wildlife, public lands, education, racial, social, climate and environmental justice.
🍀🌼😊🍀 Clean Air Saves Lives. Please ask the EPA and California Air Resources Board (CARB) to adopt the World Health Organization (WHO) Air Quality Guidelines, 2021. Reduce toxic pollution, including PM, particulate matter levels in our air.
Send an email to EPA Director Michael Regan at Regan.Michael@epa.gov and CARB Chair Liane Randolph at Liane.Randolph@arb.ca.gov
Link & our Team 3 air pollution page for more info
Sample comment, you may edit:
Air pollution is one of the greatest environmental risks to our health. Reducing air pollution levels will save lives, reducing strokes, heart disease, lung cancer, and respiratory diseases like asthma, birth defects, still birth, pre-birth and low birth weight babies.. Air pollution was estimated to cause nearly 7 million premature deaths worldwide yearly.
Please adopt the WHO Air Quality Guidelines, 2021 and do all you can to stop the burning of fossil fuels, wood and biomass.
Please stop false solutions like Carbon Capture (Direct Air Capture) that produce more fossil fuel pollution than they take in. This false solution only benefits the fossil fuel industry.
🌼😊🍀Please ask your city, state, university, pension system, business, bank… to divest from fossil fuels.
In California, support SB 252 Bill would require the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) and the California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) to divest from oil and gas companies. They have over 11 billion in fossil fuels and are the largest public pension funds in the US.
Send letters and comments in support to Trevor Taylor, Legislative Director for the bill’s sponsor, Senator Lena Gonzalez.
Please click here for Bills to Support
Ban the Sale, Use and Storage of Leaded Fuel Sign-On Letter
Click here to sign on to our letter.
There is no safe level of lead, according to the World Health Organization, Centers for Disease Control and the American Academy of Pediatrics. Lead is a toxic heavy metal.
Lead is especially toxic to children and fetal development. It damages children's brains and nervous system, lowers IQ scores, slows their growth and development, harms muscle coordination, speech, language and causes behavior problems. And these impacts are lifelong.
Approximately 70% of airborne lead in the U.S. comes from piston-engine aircraft.
These aircraft are the largest remaining source of lead pollution in our air.Click here for more info. Help us #GetTheLeadOut!
Stop Synthetic Turf Sign-On Letter
Click here to sign our letter to protect our kids from toxic chemicals, PFAS, lead and heavy metals found in plastic grass/artificial synthetic turf.
Synthetic turf contains toxic chemicals
Doctors, nurses, health professionals, university professors, and children's health organizations are deeply concerned about the toxic, cancer-causing chemicals, PAHs, benzene, PFAS “forever chemicals,” lead and heavy metals that have been found in the plastic blades of grass, backing, crumb rubber and other infill.Synthetic turf is dangerous to athletes. Synthetic turf fields are full of bacteria and must be regularly cleaned with chemicals. Turf burns from synthetic turf can become infected with bacteria like staph and MRSA which can be life threatening.
An EPA study found MRSA on 70% of fields tested.Synthetic turf increases injuries. According to an NFL Players Association (NFLPA) study, playing and practicing on synthetic turf increases the chance of a lower extremity injury with a 69% higher rate of non-contact foot/ankle injuries compared to grass. The NFLPA and the AFL-CIO have called for all NFL fields to be natural grass.
Click here for more info on the dangers of artificial grass/synthetic turf.
Light Shows- NOT Fireworks at SeaWorld Sign-On Letter
Click here to sign our letter to stop SeaWorld fireworks!
We want clean air and 💧🌊🐬water- NOT pollution & toxic chemicals, PTSD & lost 🐾pets!
Fireworks can put out heavy metals and other pollution into the air which can drift miles and miles.
Click here for more info on the dangers of fireworks.
Ongoing Comments
Ask the City of Oceanside, CA to take actions to protect our health
Email comments to CityClerk@OceansideCA.org. Sample comments, you may edit:
Stop leasing land to West Coast Tomatoes. They not only have worker violations, but they also use toxic pesticides near homes and schools. They use over 90,000 pounds of 70 different pesticidees every year. They use pesticides like diazinon and cyfluthrin which are banned in many countries around the world. They are being used 100 feet away from homes and 1/2 mile from Mission Vista High School! The EU bans 195 pesticides, China bans 54 and the US only bans 21. Link for more info. Click here for our letter to the City of Oceanside
Stop the sale of leaded aviation fuel at the Oceanside airport. The Oceanside Municipal Airport only sells jet fuel and leaded AVGAS. Lead is a dangerous neurotoxin. Lead is cumulative poison especially toxic to children and unborn babies. There is NO safe level of lead. Planes flying everyday from the airport are poisoning Oceanside with lead. Link for more info.
Stop wood fire pits at the Harbor. Wood smoke is toxic. Burning 10 pounds of wood in 1 hour releases the same amount of cancer causing PAHs as 6,000 packs of cigarettes. Wood smoke is a complex mixture of gases and fine particles, called particulate matter or PM. PM2.5 is so small, it can enter the bloodstream and cross the blood-brain barrier. There is a growing body of research that clearly shows that wood smoke increases the risk of serious health outcomes including asthma, heart attacks, strokes, cancer, and brain conditions like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and dementia. Burning wood harms the climate; it releases carbon dioxide, short-lived climate pollutants (SLCP) like black carbon along with methane. Link for more info.
Put up No Smoking Signs. People are smoking in public places, filling the air with cancer-causing secondhand smoke. There are cigarette butts everywhere at the Oceanside Harbor and city parks which is plastic pollution that ends up in our streams, rivers and ocean. Please educate people on not smoking and not littering.
Put up No Idling signs with children’s art to remind people to turn off their engines when they are parked and educate the public on the dangers of exhaust. Car exhaust is full of toxic chemicals like benzene and carbon monoxide. 1 minute of idling puts more carbon monoxide into the air than smoking 3 packs of cigarettes. Idling is a source of air pollution and even short term exposure to air pollution increases the risk of Covid. Link to article. Link to more info.
Adopt an ordinance to stop the use of polystyrene foam, lighter-than-air balloons and single-use plastics. Link to more info.
Purchase open space and increase wetlands restoration
Take climate action. Set a goal of 100% clean, renewable energy, encourage the adoption of electric lawn equipment and pass a building electrification ordinance to stop natural gas in new construction like Encinitas and Solana Beach. Link for more info.
Petitions You Can Sign
Tell the US Fish and Wildlife Service you support their proposal to protect nearly 2 million acres of critical habitat for manatees under the Endangered Species Act. Manatees are dying at an alarming rate. Declining seagrass has led to almost 20% of the entire Florida population passing away in just two years. These gentle giants are starving to death!
Paraquat is a very toxic herbicide that is banned in over 68 countries.
Paraquat exposure can be fatal to humans, wildlife, and domestic animals, even in very small amounts., Exposure to paraquat is linked to Parkinson’s Disease, and paraquat poisoning can damage the lungs, kidneys, liver, and esophagus. There is no antidote to paraquat poisoning and one sip can be fatal.
The EPA classifies paraquat as a possible human carcinogen and is linked to various forms of cancer, including childhood leukemia and thyroid cancer.
The EPA Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program (EDSP) cannot be only limited to only humans and conventional pesticide active ingredients. The EDSP must use of all endocrine disruption research findings.
Ask your U.S. Representative and Senators to cosponsor S. 5084, the Safe School Meals Act, to set limits on heavy metals in school meals, ban glyphosate, paraquat, and organophosphate pesticide residues in school meals, and banning PFAS, phthalates, lead, and bisphenols in school meal packaging.
It also directs the FDA to reevaluate food additives with known carcinogenic, reproductive, or developmental health harms, such as artificial food dyes, and ban their use in school meals before the completion of analysis.
The Safe School Meals Act also increases the funding available for schools to purchase safe school meals and expands funding for the Organic Certification Cost-Share Program for organic farmers.
Congress is considering a bill to promote "advanced recycling," a.k.a. burning plastic, as a solution to plastic pollution. This is dangerous!
If this bill passes, it would mean plastics-burning facilities across the country that would be exempt from air pollution controls. It would protect the plastics industry rather than people, and it would harm our most precious and vulnerable population, our children!
Instead of using its innovative technologies to help slow down the climate crisis, Microsoft is instead choosing to help oil and gas producers boost their profits by providing them with personalized cloud computing resources and AI software tools.
Tell Microsoft to stop helping the fossil fuel industry!
Please ask your senators and representative to co-sponsor this bill to create permanent federal protections for bison, grizzly bears, and gray wolves and expand recovery efforts and coexistence measures to keep them safe. It will also increase existing Tribal management authorities over these species by creating oversight committees that work in unison with Indian Tribes to identify Tribal lands suitable for possible reintroduction efforts.
Chemical food dyes are linked to behavioral issues and attention disorders are in public school lunches and snacks. California just passed a landmark bill that would ban six synthetic food dyes from foods served at public schools in that state – now it’s time all U.S. kids have the same health protections.
Please tell the three corporations that provide most of our nation’s school lunches – Aramark, Sodexo and Chartwells – to remove harmful chemical dyes in food provided to schools. Every kid deserves the same shot at a healthier future!
Consumer Reports’ latest test results for lead in 36 ground cinnamon products and spice blends are troubling: in a third of the products tested, just a quarter-teaspoon had more lead than you should consume in an entire day.
Despite the health risks of lead – which include damage to the brain, reproductive problems, and developmental issues – there still is no national limit for lead and other risky heavy metals in most foods, including spices.
Tell the FDA to immediately adopt a national standard and protect us from these health risks.
Since the 1940s, our government exposed innocent people to radiation from nuclear activities. In the southwest, uranium workers breathed radioactive dust and unknowingly carried the poison home on their clothes to their families. In Idaho, Nevada, Colorado, and Utah, “downwinders” were exposed when winds carried radioactive clouds from nuclear weapons testing in Nevada and New Mexico. In Missouri, communities were exposed to buried radioactive waste from the Manhattan Project.
Tell your senators and representatives to reject the Energy Permitting Reform Act of 2024 and fight for our oceans and coastal communities! This toxic new bill in Congress would force offshore drilling on millions of acres of ocean every year.
Shut Down DAPL: Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Youth are asking you to join them in calling the White House to Shut Down the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL)!
The Biden-Harris Administration’s Army Corps of Engineers has the opportunity to do the right thing by immediately shutting down the DAPL and revoking all permits. Taking clear action to Shut Down DAPL is critical if President Biden and Vice President Harris want to leave a legacy on climate, protection of sacred lands, water sources, and Indigenous rights!
Please take a moment this week to call the White House at (202) 456-1111 this week between 11am - 3pm ET / 8am - 12pm PT
Please ask the federal government to enact the strongest possible critical habitat designations now!
Alabama is home to an unmatched wealth of water resources with more than 132,000 miles of rivers and streams and the greatest amount of freshwater aquatic biodiversity in the country.
Ask Alabama Governor Ivey to join the America the Beautiful Freshwater Challenge, a voluntary partnership to conserve and protect America’s rivers, streams, lakes, and wetlands.
AB 1864 will ensure California’s kids are better protected from harmful pesticides while at school!
HR 8998 includes multiple poison pill riders targeting the Arctic's fragile and pristine ecosystems by adding many new oil and gas projects along with undoing conservation actions taken by the Biden administration to protect the Arctic Refuge and Western Arctic, as well as protections for the Arctic Ocean. Tell your congressmember to oppose HR 8998.
Demand California EPA and the Dept. of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) enforce the cleanup of the Santa Susana Field Lab and prevent any more children from getting cancer.
Click here to sign the petition
Please stop Cornell University plan to install new artificial turf fields!
Click here to sign the petition
Please support Consumer Report's petition and tell EPA and Congress to ban all synthetic pesticides when the crop can be grown organically.
Help Migratory Birds Across the Western Hemisphere!
We have lost 3 billion birds in North America since 1970! We must conserve their habitats!
Please click here to ask your Senator to support the Migratory Birds of the Americas Conservation Enhancements Act to fund conservation projects.
Click here to sign the petition
The California Geologic Energy Management Division (CalGEM) is finally closing the loop and is taking public comments through March 27 on the final step to banning fracking!
Click here to send a comment to the EPA
Please support the proposed Methane Emissions Charge for petroleum and natural gas systems within the Methane Emissions Reduction Program.
Click here to sign the petition
Tell your U.S. senators to support the Building Native Habitats at Federal Facilities Act to help restore native landscapes!
Click here to sign the petition
Tell state legislators to stop shielding pesticide makers from liability lawsuits!
Click here to sign the petition
Proposed updates to the Clean Air Act would be the first-ever carbon regulations for existing power plants, requiring coal/gas plants to cut or capture nearly all of their emissions by 2040. These power plants are about 25% of US greenhouse gases!
Click here to sign the petition
U.S. Forest Service is proposing a new policy to conserve and consistently manage old-growth forests. Please give them your support!
Click here to sign the petition
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has issued a draft environmental analysis on the impacts of removing protections and opening 28 million acres for industrial development like mining or oil drilling.
Tell BLM to keep all protections in place and NO development!
Click here to sign the petition
The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) will lose funding January 19th if Congress does not act.
The program will serve 7 million moms and kids in 2024 and 53% of all infants born in the U.S.
Click here to sign the petition
Ask the Speakers of the California Assembly and Senate to require all committee chairs to accept remote support or opposition for bills under discussion ("me-too" comments) in all hearings.
Click here to sign the petition
15 riders have been added to the Endangered Species Act (ESA) appropriations bill (H.R. 4821) that block vital protections for wildlife. These include blocking protections for grizzly bears, gray wolves, several whale species and stopping pesticide regulation! Tell Congress to protect endangered species!
Click here to sign the petition
Antimicrobial/antibiotic pesticides create antibiotic resistance, threatening another pandemic. These sprays are also used on synthetic turf for bacteria, mold, and fungus.
Click here to sign the petition
Tell the EPA to protect children from neurodevelopmental harm and put the chlorpyrifos ban back in place
Click here to sign the petition
If approved, the Calcasieu Pass 2 (CP2) facility would dump the pollution of more than 42 million gas-powered cars or more than 50 coal-fired power plants.
Click here to sign the petition
The California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) has proposed regulations to provide advance notification of some pesticides used in agriculture. It does not provide enough transparency.
Tell Montclair Public Schools District No Artificial Turf!
Click here to sign the petition
Part of the Farm Bill, this would help independent family farms and rural communities:
- Stop new and expanding large factory farms
- Phase out existing large factory farms by 2040
- Hold corporations responsible for harm caused by factory farms
- Provide $100 billion for contract farmers to transition away from factory farms
- Restore mandatory Country of Origin Labeling for meat
- Stops the USDA from labeling foreign imported meat products as “Product of USA”
Ask Congress to Support the Safer Beauty Bill Package
Click here to sign the petition
The Safer Beauty Bill Package is 4 bills to close gaps in federal personal care product safety.
H.R. 3619: Toxic-Free Beauty Act. Bans 11 of the most toxic chemicals, including mercury, formaldehyde, parabens, phthalates, and phenylenediamines. The European Union, California and Maryland already ban them.
H.R. 3620: Cosmetic Safety Protections for Communities of Color and Salon Workers. Funds research and education to protect women of color and salon workers: the most vulnerable in beauty products.
H.R. 3621: Cosmetic Fragrance and Flavor Right to Know Act. Requires product label and website disclosure of all ingredients in personal care products.
H.R. 3622: Cosmetic Supply Chain Transparency Act. Requires suppliers of raw materials and ingredients to provide full disclosure and safety data to companies.
Support the Ban Water Beads Act (H.R. 6468)
Enforces nationwide ban on dangerous water bead toys marketed to children. Please click here to sign the petition
Click here to sign the petition
Support the Stop Child Labor Act which will increase prevention, add criminal penalties and increased fines and allow victims to seek justice.
16 states have introduced “youth worker freedom” laws, bankrolled by billionaires, to roll back child labor laws. If passed, they would allow minors to work hazardous jobs and operate heavy machinery along with work long and late hours.
Click here to sign the petition
Ask the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service you support the jaguar!
Scientists have identified a large area of habitat in Arizona and New Mexico, 20 million acres (about 32,000 square miles) that could support more than 100 jaguars. We ask the USFW to reintroduce jaguars to the area and expand the cats' protected habitat.
Ask Congress, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Dept. of the Interior to use Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) funds to move our farms from fossil fuel-based pesticides and fertilizers to organic, regenerative agricultural that is safe and equitable. Action link.
All available conservation funds in the IRA like the Conservation Stewardship Program, agricultural programs, etc. must go to transform farming in the US away from toxic pesticides and fertilizers.
Moving farmers to organic, regenerative organic, and permaculture will help reduce dependence on fossil fuels, create healthy soils which holds more carbon, grow healthy food, protect all our health, maximize biological diversity and minimize harm to our environment.
Ask the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to stop the use of toxic pesticides in National Wildlife Refuges. Petition link.
Toxic agricultural pesticides are sprayed in these sensitive and protected areas.
In 2016, over 270,000 acres were sprayed with more than 490,000 pounds of deadly pesticides like neonicotinoids which harm threatened and endangered wildlife and plants while getting into surrounding groundwater and soil.
Ask National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to update their car seat fire safety regulation . Petition link.
Nearly all children’s car seats are treated with hazardous flame retardants because the NHTSA has not updated their fire standards since the 1970s.
Ask President Biden to revoke Nationwide Permit 12. Petition link.
Nationwide Permit 12 (NWP12) is a loophole in the Clean Water Act to fast-track gas/oil pipelines without proper environmental review
Used for the Dakota Access Pipeline and tried to use it for the Keystone XL pipeline
Ask the EPA to pass the Cross State Air Pollution Rule to clean up power plants. Petition link. Link for more info.
Also called the Good Neighbor Plan, these rules would protect communities “downwind” of power plants, chemical manufacturing, iron/steel mills and other sources of air pollution.
Over half of the U.S. population breathes unhealthy air every day and power plants are one of the biggest sources.
Ask the EPA to set the strongest air pollution standards possible for trucks and buses. Petition link. Link for more info.
Trucks and buses are almost 25% of transportation-related emissions in the US, their toxic air pollution especially harmful to vulnerable communities
It has been over 10 years since the EPA updated these standards
Ask your Senator to support a ban on single-use plastic in National Parks. Petition link. Link for more info.
70 million pounds of waste is left behind at our parks every year with single-use plastics big part of it
Plastic trash is found everywhere and leaks toxic chemicals like phthalates into our water and soil
Ask President Biden to stop the federal government buying single-use plastic. Petition link. Link for more info.
The US government has massive spending power, the single largest consumer of products/services in the world…$650 billion each year
General Services Administration issues regulations that govern purchases, yet they have no requirements for plastic items
Ask your Senator to support the Fair Repair Act. Petition link. Link for more info.
Would require manufacturers of electronic equipment like smart phones to make documentation, diagnostic and repair information available to the public and independent repair shops
Gives consumers the ability to repair what they own instead of having to throw it away and buy a new one which is bad for the environment
Ask the UK government to stop burning trees for energy. Petition link. Link for more info.
In 2019, the UK imported over 8 million tons of wood pellets (more than any other country in the world) to burn for energy
Burning wood (biomass) to make electricity is dirty energy. Just like fossil fuels, burning biomass puts out huge amounts of carbon dioxide and air pollution while destroying wildlife and habitat.
UK taxpayers subsidize large biomass power plants almost £3 million a day
Ask Biden Administration to permanently ban train transport of liquified natural gas (LNG). Petition link. Link for more info.
Called “bomb trains”, LNG is very explosive. Just 1 tank car could cause city-wide destruction. 22 LNG tank cars is the same energy of the Hiroshima atomic bomb.
Rail transport of LNG was banned for decades until a 2019 Trump executive order
Ask the EPA to protect vulnerable communities from dangerous toxic chemicals. Petition link. Link for more info.
Many industrial manufacturing or disposal facilities are located dangerously close to neighborhoods.
Hazardous waste sites, polluting industrial facilities and other dangerous industries are disproportionately located in low-income communities and communities of color. Studies show this is intentional.
Residents are exposed to toxic chemicals in the air, water, and soils, increasing their rates of cancer, asthma, heart disease and other serious health problems.
Please ask your local represesntative to join the Electrification Caucus. Petition link. Link for more info.
Electrification for homes, commercial buildings, and vehicles is a solution that can be done now to address the climate crisis, lower costs for American families, create jobs, and improve indoor air quality.
Please ask President Biden to fight climate change and stop exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG). Petition link. Link for more info.
US is the world's largest exporter of liquefied natural gas (LNG), 7 million tonnes in Dec 2021 alone.
LNG is fracked gas made into a liquid by being cooled to -260ºF and is very explosive. Leaks can can quickly become a toxic, explosive cloud. Processing LNG also makes toxic air pollution like benzene, mercury, ammonia and sulfuric acid.
The life cycle of fracked LNG (extraction to end use) makes it one of the dirtiest fuels on the planet.
Please ask REI to stop PFAS in their products. Petition link. Link for more info.
PFAS, called “forever chemicals” are a group of over 12,000 synthetic chemicals that are linked to liver damage, thyroid disease, decreased fertility, high cholesterol, obesity, hormone suppression and several types of cancer.
REI uses PFAS in their snow gear, raincoats and many other products…exposing us to toxic chemicals!
Patagonia, a major supplier to REI, is stopping PFAS in all of their clothing by 2024.
Ask your member of Congress to cosponsor the Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act. Petition link. Link for more info.
More than 8 million tons of plastic are dumped into our oceans every year: harming wildlife, ecosystems and human health
BFFPPA will do things like:
Require producers of packaging, containers, and food-service products to design, manage, and finance waste and recycling programs
Ban single-use plastic carryout bags and non-recyclable certain single-use plastic products
Make massive investments in US recycling and composting infrastructure
