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STOP West Coast Tomato Growers in Oceanside, CA
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.
Petitions You Can Sign
Americans shouldn’t need a chemistry degree to eat safely—but today, no one, not even the FDA, can say exactly what’s in our food.
A new investigation by Consumer Reports and Yuka, the product transparency app, found that many popular snack foods contain additives at levels that may pose real health risks over time.
While manufacturers are phasing out their use of some additives, the process has been delayed and is entirely voluntary. Meanwhile, a decades-old loophole still allows companies to introduce new additives without FDA review, and U.S. safety limits often lag far behind those set by other public health authorities.
The FDA must act. It’s time to close the loopholes, set strong limits on high-risk additives already in our food supply, and then regularly re-evaluate their safety based on the latest scientific evidence.
There's no question the fossil fuel industry leaves widespread destruction in its wake. Oil and gas production — a leading driver of climate change — fuels the superstorms, megafires, and droughts that harm people, degrade habitat, and push wildlife toward extinction, from polar bears to monarch butterflies.
Big Oil should be responsible for the devastation it wreaks for profit. But two new bills in Congress could give the industry full legal immunity, leaving the public to deal with the fallout and shoulder the costs.
Introduced by Republican lawmakers, H.R. 8330 and S. 4340 would prevent communities from holding fossil fuel companies liable in court for climate damages. They'd also void existing laws in states like Vermont and New York that make polluters pay.
Big Oil is following an old, cynical playbook. In 2005, gun manufacturers pushed a bill through Congress that gave them near-total immunity from lawsuits that could've made them accountable for gun deaths and injuries.
We can't let fossil fuel polluters follow in the gun lobby's footsteps. Legislators can halt these bills in their tracks and remind the industry it's not above the law — but they need to hear from you.
Tell your members of Congress to reject any legislation that would let Big Oil freely harm wildlife, people, and the planet.
The “Fix Our Forests Act” and “Save Our Sequoias Act” — deceptive bills that destroy forests rather than protect them — can’t win a vote on their own merits, so their sponsors attached them to the must-pass National Defense Authorization Act as Senate Amendments 5890 and 6039.
Defense bills should set defense policy, not roll back the environmental laws protecting national forests and giant sequoia groves, some of the oldest living ecosystems on the continent. These amendments claim that exploitative logging is necessary for “wildfire prevention,” but studies show that thinning forests does not protect communities from fires; research demonstrates that forests typically burn fastest and most intensely in areas where logging previously occurred.
These policies gut your right to go to court over illegal logging, starting the legal clock the day an analysis is published rather than the day a decision is signed, so agencies can simply run out the clock then approve clearcuts and old-growth logging — even in wilderness areas — without oversight. The public is effectively stripped of their right to challenge the destruction of their public lands.
They also open every giant sequoia grove, including groves inside national parks and other protected wilderness areas, to industrial logging with no limits on tree size or age. The science doesn’t support it: sequoias depend on high-intensity fire to regenerate, while logging equipment has been found to crush roughly 83% of naturally regenerating seedlings. This spring, agencies logged Yosemite’s Mariposa Grove without public notice and these amendments would make that the norm.
Tell your senators to oppose SA 5890 and SA 6039, and keep them out of the NDAA.
In the face of rising public action to end plastic pollution and its toxic impacts, the plastic industry is turning to children’s classrooms to secure its future profits.
The plastic industry’s “educational” materials frame plastic as safe and essential and promote recycling as the solution to pollution. They fail to mention that plastic particles have been found throughout our environment—on the highest mountains, in the deepest ocean trenches, and in our atmosphere—and also in our bodies. They also don’t address plastics’ links to serious health problems including cancer, developmental issues, diabetes, heart disease, infertility, obesity, respiratory problems, and other health harms. By hiding plastic’s true health and environmental harms, the plastics industry aims to delay, deflect, and distract from action to solve plastic pollution.
It doesn’t have to be this way! School districts have the power to stop the plastic industry from infiltrating public education and polluting young minds. Join us in calling on school boards and superintendents across the country to prohibit materials funded by or connected to the chemical, fossil fuel, and plastic industries.
Let’s get Plastic Expelled from school—sign the petition now!
Tell the City of Carlsbad and the Coastal Commission you want a coastal park and biodiversity, not more luxury condos!
The Missouri Dept of Elementary and Secondary Education and State Board of Education are moving quickly to impose a reductive A–F letter grade on public school buildings and districts.
They are moving to impose this policy without adequate time for feedback from parents, educators, or the community before the vote takes place.
This flawed scheme collapses complex, dynamic school environments into a single arbitrary score.
Decades of research show that letter-grade accountability schemes do not measure instructional quality; instead, they mirror community income and punish under-resourced neighborhoods.
A new bill in Congress would delay urgent protections for the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale.
This delay threatens the existence of the entire species - the right whale can’t wait another decade.
Contact your representative and demand that they vote to protect right whales.
U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) has introduced Booker Amendments #1, #2, #3, and #4 to the Senate Farm Bill. If passed, Amendment #1 would reverse the June Supreme Court ruling giving Bayer-Monsanto and the pesticide industry immunity from state tort failure-to-warn lawsuits when their pesticides cause harm.
Booker Amendments #2, #3, and #4 would strike out poison pill provisions added to the Farm Bill.
For too long, residents have witnessed what appears to be an ongoing discharge of untreated or inadequately treated sewage into a local stream in Leadwood, Missouri.
We are calling upon federal, state, and county leaders—including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, the Governor of Missouri, our elected representatives, and local officials—to work together to ensure this matter receives the attention it deserves.
The queen conch gained protection under the Endangered Species Act in 2024, giving them fighting chance to rebuild their numbers and not become extinct.
That is why H.R. 1897 is so dangerous.
The Endangered Species Act is America’s strongest, most effective law for preventing extinction and protecting the natural systems all life depends on. For more than 50 years, it has prevented the extinction of 99% of protected species and remains one of the nation’s most widely supported conservation laws.
But H.R. 1897 would weaken the science-based foundation of the ESA and make it harder to defend species and the habitats they need to survive. ESC has warned that attacks on the ESA threaten wildlife by stripping scientific oversight and weakening habitat protections.
Link to sign petition. Tell Congress: Protect the Toxic Substances Control Act
The chemical industry is lobbying hard to undermine protections that ban harmful chemicals, require health and safety data before chemicals can be used, and uphold the right of states to implement laws stronger than the federal government.
The Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) was updated in 2016 to reduce exposure to harmful chemicals linked to chronic diseases like cancer and liver failure. The law is working — that’s why the chemical lobby wants to weaken it and trade public health for profits.
From the vast Arctic mountain ranges and river valleys to the temperate rainforests of southeast Alaska's Tongass National Forest, the Trump Administration has made it a priority to strip protections from these these iconic and cherished places so that corporate polluters can increase drilling, logging, and mining while blocking access to the general public. Millions of acres of public lands and waters are at risk!
Corporations like Bayer's Monsanto are pressuring lawmakers to include language in the 2025 Farm Bill to OVERTURN all state, county, and city pesticide regulations.
This would threaten local laws that go further than the EPA's regulations for pesticide use – local laws designed to protect vulnerable populations such as farm workers and schoolchildren, as well as endangered pollinators like bees.
Despite the science linking dangerous pesticides like glyphosate and neonics to life-threatening health conditions like cancer, Bayer's Monsanto and other corporations are determined to throw out all state and local regulations, just to protect their profit margins.
Call today and tell your member of Congress to OPPOSE any CRA (Congressional Review Act) resolutions that revoke the waivers needed to implement California's clean vehicle standards.
Deep sea mining companies are pressuring governments to let them go down there, several thousand meters below the surface of the ocean, and plunder the seabed to extract metals. If this industry is allowed to start, gigantic machines weighing more than a blue whale will be lowered onto the ocean floor to plunder these pristine ocean ecosystems.
The Trump Administration is gutting one of our nation’s most important environmental laws for the benefit of polluting industries. Our communities will pay the price.
For decades, the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) has given people a say in federal projects that directly impact their communities, while requiring the government to analyze and disclose the potential impacts of a project. This means that when the government wants to bulldoze a community to build a highway, greenlight trash incinerators in communities of color, or construct oil and natural gas pipelines that threaten precious water sources, communities can fight back.
Ask NOAA to support the widespread adoption of pop-up fishing gear, a tried-and-tested alternative to commercial fishing gear that will save the lives of countless marine animals.
446 large whales got tangled in commercial fishing gear between 2017 and 2022 — and that's likely just a fraction of the actual number of entanglements!
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.
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 support Consumer Report's petition and tell EPA and Congress to ban all synthetic pesticides when the crop can be grown organically.
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 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 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 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