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The Fish and Wildlife service is declaring open season on the last 35 wild red wolves. Please take action to save them. The Threat to Red Wolves Until now, hunting and killing of these rare animals has been strictly forbidden. But the Fish and Wildlife Service just announced a new plan that would shrink the wolves’ protected habitat to only one refuge, […]
When you share a story on social media, your personal recommendation has power. That’s why, each week, Environmental Action highlights stories from our Facebook and Twitter pages to make sure you don’t miss the opportunity to learn about — or address — an important environmental issue. In this week’s shares: a serious new threat to the Endangered Species Act, a way to […]
In this week’s social media shares from Environmental Action: working for wolves, dicamba’s dangers and more. Social Media Shares for Twitter Social Media Shares for Twitter More than 11,000 people have signed our new petition for gray #wolves. Have you? 🐺 If you haven’t added your name, please sign @EnviroAction’s petition now: https://t.co/RPwCkbpHnE 🐺 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 see A poem as ugly As a gas-powered jet ski. The winner of the July 2018 Thneed Trophy is the Burrasca personal watercraft (aka “jet ski”). Called by its advocates “a monster on the water”[1] but a “monster to the water” 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 Shares Twitter Already, 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 “trophies” for their walls and floors. The most famous elephant of all has some thoughts on the matter. For a few weeks recently, “The Greatest Showman” — the semi-true story of P.T. Barnum — was my daughter’s favorite movie. She’s moved onto “The Incredibles 2.” But, even […]