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In this week’s social media shares from Environmental Action: working for wolves, dicamba’s dangers and more.Social Media Shares for TwitterSocial Media Shares for TwitterMore than 11,000 people have signed our new petition for gray #wolves. Have you? đș If you haven’t added your name, please sign @EnviroAction’s petition now: https://t.co/RPwCkbpHnEđș Already signed for wolves? RT and encourage your friends to help […]
Monsanto’s weed-killer dicamba was designed to kill unwanted plants but spare the special, genetically modified soybeans that were designed to resist it. There’s just one problem: Dicamba doesn’t stay where it’s sprayed.Dicamba gets into the air and spreads, devastating plants that the herbicide wasn’t intended for, risking our planet’s biodiversity.Whether it’s crops on adjacent farms and orchards, or flowers and trees […]
A World Health Organization (WHO) working group just announced that they have concluded that styrene, a foundational component of polystyrene foam, probably causes cancer.1 In addition to this plastic foam polluting our rivers, lakes and oceans, and harming wildlife, it also risks human health.If enough of us speak up, we can convince our leaders to ban harmful plastic foam. Add […]
Right now, the Trump administration is considering erasing Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves. Without continued protection, gray wolves in America would be in danger of vanishing forever.Gray wolves were nearly driven extinct in the 20th century, when lack of legal protection allowed them to be hunted, poisoned and trapped. The Endangered Species Act shields wolves from destruction, allowing […]
I think that I will never seeA poem as uglyAs a gas-powered jet ski. The winner of the July 2018 Thneed Trophy is the Burrasca personal watercraft (aka âjet skiâ).Called by its advocates âa monster on the waterâ[1] but a âmonster to the waterâ by its critics, the Burrasca is supposedly the fastest jet ski on the market today…and the most […]
Late on the afternoon of July 5, 2018, something truly remarkable happened: Scott Pruitt just resigned as Administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency. This could be the turning of the tide for environmental protection. Please help us turn the EPA around!Pruitt’s resignation marks the end of what may have been the single most regressive tenure of any EPA Administrator in […]
In this week’s social shares for Facebook and Twitter: Scott Pruitt, red wolves, bees, elephants and lions. Share any or all of these stories on social media, and remind your friends and family just how important it is to protect nature and the environment!Facebook Social SharesTwitterAlready, more than 14,000 Environmental Action supporters have asked governors across the U.S. to ban […]
President Trump is open to advice on whether to allow hunters to bring home elephant âtrophiesâ for their walls and floors. The most famous elephant of all has some thoughts on the matter. For a few weeks recently, âThe Greatest Showmanâ — the semi-true story of P.T. Barnum — was my daughterâs favorite movie.Sheâs moved onto âThe Incredibles 2.â But, even […]
In this week’s social shares: coming together for Alaska’s beautiful Bristol Bay, red wolves on the brink and more. Share any of these posts â and help keep environmental issues front-and-center on social media.Social Shares for FacebookSocial Shares for Twitterâ° DEADLINE TOMORROW Help mobilize people to stop dirty #mining that could threaten the spectacular #wildlife of Alaska’s Bristol Bay:1. Sign the […]
It’s crunch time for stopping the âabominableâ proposed Pebble gold mine near Alaskaâs pristine Bristol Bay. What would the most famous animated miner do?âSilver and gold, silver and gold Ev’ryone wishes for silver and gold How do you measure its worth? Just by the pleasure it gives here on earth.â âSilver and Goldâ, from the TV special âRudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeerâ (1964) Some people […]
