Current Actions

• Urge Congress to support America's wildlife

  One-third of species in the United States are currently threatened with extinction. That includes everything from bumblebees to manatees.

  To protect threatened and endangered wildlife and plants, join us in calling on the U.S. Senate to support the Recovering America's Wildlife Act. If passed, this bill will give state and tribal agencies funding to protect at risk species.

• Tell President Biden: Protect our coast from offshore drilling

  When we drill, we spill. The Biden administration's new plan could lock in decades more offshore drilling in U.S. oceans. But the plan isn't set in stone--we still have time to protect our coast. Add your name to tell the administration "no new leasing" today.

• Tell your Senator: Support the M.H. Dutch Salmon Greater Gila Wild and Scenic River Act.

  New Mexico Sens. Martin Heinrich and Ben Ray Lujan introduced the M.H. Dutch Salmon Greater Gila Wild and Scenic River Act. The bill aims to protect more than 440 miles of the Gila River watershed. With protections, endangered species such as the Gila trout, Southwestern willow flycatcher, and Northern Mexican garter snake, will have the opportunity to restore their populations.

  Contact your senators today and urge them to support the M.H. Dutch Salmon Greater Gila Wild and Scenic River Act

• Tell your state legislators: No more damaging methane gas

  For as long as we have used methane gas to heat and cook in our homes, it has posed a risk to communities and the environment. A major gas leak happens in the U.S. every 40 hours. To protect public health and the environment, and to help stop the worst effects of climate change, ask your state representatives to put an end to new gas infrastructure.

• Tell Red Lobster: Protect the North Atlantic Right whale

  Dear Red Lobster CEO Kelli Valade,

  North Atlantic Right whales are critically endangered, and Red Lobster could play an important role in saving them.

  One of the main causes of death for this marine mammal is entanglement in the ropes used to connect lobster traps on the ocean floor to buoys on the surface. When the whales become entangled, these ropes wrap themselves and slowly constrict the animal, often leading to a slow, painful death. It doesn't need to be this way. New ropeless fishing technology can allow fishermen to keep reeling in their catch without threatening these vulnerable whales.

  As one of the largest purchasers of seafood in the world, you can set a new industry standard for safe, sustainable lobster fishing. That's why I'm urging you to commit only to purchase lobsters from ropeless traps.

• Tell your U.S. House representative: Expand Berryessa National Monument

  California's Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument provides critical wildlife habitat and is an escape for city-dwellers from the hustle and bustle of urban life. This land deserves protection, and it's time that protection be expanded to include the adjacent Condor Ridge.

  Now is our chance to secure greater protections for this area. Sign this petition to urge your U.S. House representative to support the Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument Expansion Act.

• Tell the FWS to protect the American bumblebee

  In the past two decades, American bumblebee populations have dropped by 90%.

  Pesticides, climate change, disease and habitat loss have all been putting increasing pressure on the bumblebees in recent years. In the Midwest and Southeast, as much as half of all American bumblebees have disappeared. In other states, that number rises dramatically -- in New York, as many as 99% of the bumblebees have disappeared. And in eight states, the bee has vanished entirely.

  American bumblebees play an important role in many ecosystems' food webs, providing food for birds and reptiles and helping the growth of a number of plants. They also play an important role in pollinating a range of crops and wildflowers. But if nothing changes, the continued collapse of species like this bee will have devastating consequences that will ripple across our country's food webs and ecosystems. For that reason, I write to urge you to grant endangered species protections to the American bumblebee.

• Support endangered species status for manatees

  Dear Interior Secretary Deb Haaland,

  We, the undersigned, urge you to support restoring the manatees' endangered status. According to Florida's Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, nearly 1,000 manatees have died in 2021 alone. That's more than double the five-year annual average.

  This calamity comes four years after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service downlisted the manatee from endangered to threatened under the Endangered Species Act, over the objection of many environmentalists and biologists. In order to give these gentle sea cows the best chance at survival, it's critical that the manatees' endangered status be restored and their critical habitat protected.

  Sincerely,

• Let's Go Big On Offshore Wind

  The United States has enough offshore wind potential to power our current electricity needs twice over. But as of 2021, there are only two operational offshore wind farms in the United States. Offshore wind has a huge role to play in getting us to 100% renewable energy. Add your name in support of America going big on offshore wind!

• Urge EPA Administrator Michael Regan to tighten clean air rules

  Air pollution cuts short the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans every year. Air pollution also increases the risk of asthma attacks, cancer and other diseases.

  Yet the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) currently allows levels of air pollution that many American public health groups and international agencies consider unhealthy. Please join us in urging EPA Administrator Michael Regan to strengthen the limits on health-threatening pollution, including ozone and fine particulate pollution.

• Tell your senators: Prioritize clean energy tax credits

  We can repower America with 100% renewable energy and see the benefits of cleaner air, cleaner water and improved health. Clean energy tax incentives are one of the best tools we have to grow renewables.

  Tax credits have helped lower the cost of wind and solar power over the last decade, bringing renewables in reach for more Americans and boosting the clean energy market. But with some current incentives set to expire at the end of December, we need Congress to act and keep our energy system moving in the right direction.

  Send a message to your U.S. senators asking them to prioritize clean energy tax credits.

• Electric homes are our future -- support the Zero Emission Homes Act

  Electrifying our home appliances is a crucial step in moving our energy system away from polluting fossil fuels. Removing harmful fumes from fossil fuel reliant appliances will not only improve our health, but it will also reduce the emissions that are ravaging our planet.

  Send a message to your U.S. senators to show your support for greener, safer households.

• Support federal investment in electric school buses

  Getting to school shouldn't include a daily dose of toxic pollution. But the vast majority of the school buses our kids ride every day run on diesel, which endangers the health of our children and releases climate-warming pollution.

  Transportation is currently the leading contributor to climate change in the U.S. We need to do all we can to cut transportation pollution and ensure our kids have a liveable future.

  There's a better option: electric school buses. These have zero tailpipe emissions, reducing exposure to toxic pollutants and cutting school buses' contributions to the climate crisis. Additionally, since they cost less to fuel and maintain, electric school buses actually save school districts money.

  Right now, a bipartisan group of senators are working on legislation to invest in America's infrastructure, including electric school buses. But some are instead suggesting spending federal funds on more dirty gas-powered buses that will pollute our health and climate for years.

  We shouldn't spend money on dirty buses instead of pollution-free, electric school buses. Tell your U.S. senators to oppose funding for dirty, diesel and gas-powered school buses in the infrastructure agreement.

• Tell Congress: Fix our water infrastructure

  Our lakes, rivers, and beaches should be safe for swimming. Yet billions of gallons of sewage and runoff continue to pollute our waterways. As Congress debates a national infrastructure package, we have an unprecedented opportunity to fix our wastewater plants and deploy nature-based solutions that prevent runoff.

• Milkweed for Monarchs

  I am committed to do my part to keep monarch butterflies afloat for generations to come. I pledge to plant milkweed in my yard for monarch caterpillars and will find milkweed that is native to my region. If native milkweed is unavailable, I pledge to plant native, nectar-rich flowers to help fuel adult monarchs' winter migration. We have to save the monarch.

• Tell your legislators: Cut energy waste in Nevada

  One of the easiest ways to reduce energy and water waste is to set higher efficiency standards for the appliances and plumbing fixtures in our households and businesses. Nevada has a chance to embrace this commonsense solution to climate change by passing appliance standards.

  Join us in urging the Nevada legislature to pass Assembly Bill 383 to reduce emissions, save energy and protect our planet.

• Tell Amazon: Stop selling bee-killing neonic pesticides

  Our bee populations are in rapid decline, and neonicotinoids -- a dangerous class of bee-killing pesticides -- aren't helping. Yet you can still find these pesticides for sale on the world's No. 1 online marketplace: Amazon.

  Right now, Amazon has a chance to make a major difference in protecting our best pollinators by removing bee-killing pesticides from its site. Tell incoming Amazon CEO Andy Jassy to help save our bees by ending the sale of products that contain neonicotinoids.

• Create roadside habitat to save the bees

  Bees need healthy habitats with flowering vegetation to provide pollen and nectar. Tell your state Legislature to create healthy habitats for bees on roadsides.

• Tell your Representative in Congress: Put a price on carbon

  U.S. policymakers must use every practical policy tool to make this zero-carbon transformation a reality. A central element in this strategy must be putting a price on carbon pollution to push polluters to cut emissions and switch to clean energy. Tell your representative in Congress to make polluters pay for the damage they cause; incentivize them to use energy more efficiently; and shift from oil, coal and natural gas to clean, renewable energy.

• More Nature: 30 Percent by 2030 Resolution

  The wild places we love and need are under siege from oil drilling, overfishing and other threats. That's why we want to set a national target of protecting 30 percent of our land and 30 percent of our ocean by 2030.

• Sign our petition in support of electrifying America's buildings

  All-electric buildings are the next step in reducing carbon emissions for a cleaner, greener planet. Using today's efficient, electric technology, we can meet all of our energy needs with renewable energy. But to fully harness the energy of the sun, the wind and the earth, we'll have to transition all of our buildings to run entirely on green electricity. I support the movement to electrify our homes and buildings for our planet and public health.

• Protect Chaco Canyon

  Chaco Culture National Historical Park got a reprieve late last year when Congress passed a one-year moratorium on new drilling outside the park. But the fact that fracking near Chaco has been considered at all is outrageous.

  It's time to secure permanent protections for Chaco Canyon. Send a message to your senators urging them to support legislation that would protect this place for good.

• Tell Congress: Permanently protect the Desert National Wildlife Refuge

  The Desert National Wildlife Refuge is as iconic as it is vast: The 1.6-million-acre refuge is home to some of our nation's most unique animal and plant life. But there's still one thing it's not: permanently protected.

  If we want future generations of Americans to experience the beauty of the Desert National Wildlife Refuge, then we must enact permanent protections for this special place. Join us in telling the U.S. Congress that it's time to protect this refuge.

• Tell the Biden administration: Protect clean water

  Americans need clean water, yet every year billions of gallons of sewage and stormwater runoff pollute our waterways with sickening pathogens. We can keep these contaminants from reaching our waterways by investing in water infrastructure that cuts pollution off at the source by preventing stormwater runoff and sewage overflows.

• Tell Costco: Help save the boreal

  Costco, a major seller of toilet paper, has a chance to make a major difference in preventing widespread deforestation in the boreal forest. Tell Costco CEO Craig Jelinek: Help save North America's biggest and most vital forest by committing your company to only sell products made sustainably.

• Tell Whole Foods Market: Planet Over Plastic

  In 2019, The Ocean Conservancy found that plastic food wrappers were the number one item of trash picked up on beaches worldwide. Single-use plastic packaging is a glaring example of a culture that prioritizes a moment's convenience over the long-term health of our oceans. We don't need it and, to protect wildlife and our ecosystems, we need to move beyond it.

  That's why we're calling on Whole Foods to make a bold, time-bound commitment to reduce its plastic footprint. Help us tell Whole Foods Market that it must put the "planet over plastic" by eliminating all single-use plastic packaging from its stores.

• Protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

  Tell your U.S. House representative to support permanent protection for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge today.

• Tell Chevron: Don't drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

  Chevron CEO Michael Wirth:

  There are some places too special, too ecologically important, too sacred to drill in. The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is one of them.

  The coastal plain of the refuge is home to vulnerable denning polar bears, North America's largest caribou herd, and millions of migratory birds from all 50 states and 6 continents.

  Any drilling in this American jewel would be a national tragedy. I ask that you pledge not to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

  Sincerely,

• Tell your representative: Support "solar strong" legislation

  "Solar strong" legislation would support first responders and boost renewable energy by requiring solar and battery backup systems on every fire station across the country. Tell your representative to support it.

• Tell Congress: Stop this reckless attempt to fast-track mining, pipelines and other destructive projects

  The Trump administration has moved to allow pipelines, mines and other destructive projects to skip environmental review and public input. Join us in calling on Congress to block this reckless order.

• Tell Congress: Support America's public lands

  The U.S. Senate just passed the Great American Outdoors Act to fully fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund, which helps to preserve public lands and protect recreation areas. Now, it's the U.S. House of Representatives' turn. Call on your representative to support the Great American Outdoors Act today.

• Tell Congress: Protect the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument

  President Trump is rolling back protections for the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument. We need to stand up to protect this ocean treasure.

• Tell the Bureau of Land Management: Protect our lands from drilling

  At a time when we need more nature, more beauty in our lives, the Interior Department is considering more than 230 nominations for oil and gas leases -- covering more than 150,000 acres in southern Utah -- that would bring drilling operations within mere miles of some of the nation's most precious protected areas.

  If oil and gas drilling is permitted here, industrial lighting and methane flaring would interrupt the expansive, star-filled night sky that the parks are known for. The pristine air quality and hundred-mile views would be disrupted. The stillness of the landscape would forever vanish.

  We can't let them trade these precious lands for a little more oil. Tell the BLM to protect these lands from drilling and reject the proposals for nominations of lease sales on parcels just outside of our national parks.

• Tell Congress: The EPA must enforce key environmental protections

  President Trump's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is no longer going to enforce key environmental protections. Congress must exercise its oversight authority to ensure the EPA resumes protecting our air and water.

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• Choose wildlife over waste

  Each year, Americans throw away millions of foam cups and take-out containers. Too often, this pollution ends up in our waterways, and eventually the ocean, where it can harm or even kill birds and marine animals such as turtles and whales.

  Nothing we use for a few minutes should pollute our environment for hundreds of years. Tell your legislators to support a ban on one of the worst types of plastic pollution: polystyrene foam cups and containers.

• Tell Congress: Pass the Extinction Prevention Act

  Dear Representative and Senators,

  We're losing species at an alarming rate, and scientists warn we're nearing another mass extinction. But President Trump has rolled back vital protections for threatened species -- and weakened the Endangered Species Act (ESA).

  The ESA has a 99 percent success rate saving species from extinction. I urge you to pass the Extinction Prevention Act to restore the ESA.

• Tell your U.S senators: speak up for the clean car standards

  Transportation is the largest source of global warming pollution in America. Reducing emissions from cars and trucks is critical, but President Donald Trump and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler are weakening the federal Clean Car Standards. It's a dangerous plan that goes against the will and well-being of the American people, increases air pollution in our communities and will lead to even more dire impacts from climate change.

  Tell your senators to stand up to the Trump administration and support strong clean car standards.

• Tell your legislators: Put wildlife over waste

  Each year, Americans throw away millions of foam cups and take-out boxes. Too often, this pollution ends up in the ocean, where it can harm or even kill birds and marine animals such as turtles and whales.

  Keeping our drinks hot or cold isn't worth polluting our environment for hundreds of years. Tell your legislators to support a ban on foam cups and boxes made of polystyrene to reduce pollution in our oceans and protect wildlife.

• Protect our drinking water from toxic PFAS

  We should be able to put out fires safely and effectively without putting our lives and our environment at risk from toxic PFAS chemicals -- especially when PFAS-free alternatives already exist. Tell Congress to require the U.S. military to stop using PFAS foams by 2023.

• CALL ON YOUR SENATORS TO SUPPORT THE TRANSITION TO ELECTRIC SCHOOL BUSES

  Over 25 million American children, as well as thousands of school bus drivers, breathe polluted air on traditional diesel yellow school buses every day. Diesel pollution stunts the growth of kids' lungs and worsens asthma symptoms, and has also been linked to poorer academic performance.

  Fortunately, there is a better solution: electric school buses. Electric buses don't emit any tailpipe pollution, eliminating exhaust that is linked to asthma attacks, respiratory illness,cancer, and climate change. While electric school buses are available, school districts often need help financing the switch away from diesel. The Clean School Bus Act will help school districts get the resources they need to ensure that every child has healthy air to breathe and a safe ride to school.

  Tell your senator to co-sponsor the Clean School Bus Act to help bring electric school buses to your community.

• Tell your representative: Stand up for clean cars

  The Trump administration is announcing a plan to rescind California's authority to impose stronger car pollution regulations than the federal government.

  Thirteen other states have already adopted the California's auto emissions standards and several leading automakers have agreed to follow California's standards. We should be setting stronger national emission standards, not taking away states' rights to set their own. Tell your representative to speak out in defense of the Clean Car standards.

• Tell Congress: Act on plastic pollution

  Every day, Americans throw away tons of single-use plastic bags, cups, containers and other "stuff." Among the worst forms of plastic pollution is polystyrene foam, which never degrades and far too often ends up in our waterways where it can harm wildlife.

  It's time to put wildlife over waste and end our reliance on single-use plastics.

• Tell Congress: Protect America's beaches

  Across the country, bacterial pollution at our beaches is putting swimmers at risk of getting sick -- due in large part to stormwater runoff and sewage overflows. Tell your representative to protect our beaches - by investing in water infrastructure that prevents this pollution.

• Tell our senators: It's time for America to go renewable

  New legislation calls for increasing renewable energy in every state. This bill is an essential step to ensure that renewable energy grows in every part of the country. Tell our senators to support the Renewable Electricity Standard Act of 2019.

• Give bees a chance

  Millions of bees are dying off, with alarming consequences for our environment and our food supply. Yet bee-killing pesticides are being sprayed in the one place bees should be safe, wildlife refuges.

  It's urgent we protect our bees. Tell Congress to support a ban on the use of bee-killing pesticides in wildlife refuges.

• Give bees a chance

  Millions of bees are dying off, with alarming consequences for our environment and our food supply. Yet bee-killing pesticides are being sprayed in the one place bees should be safe, wildlife refuges.

  It's urgent we protect our bees. Tell your state legislators to support a statewide ban on the use of bee-killing pesticides in wildlife refuges.

• Tell Congress: Stand Up For Our Ocean

  Our ocean is vast, awe-inspiring and increasingly under threat. This Earth Day, we need our leaders to do more to protect it -- and that means standing up for our most unique ocean places.

• Pledge to skip the straw

  Single use plastic products, like straws, pose a serious threat to the environment and to wildlife when they are discarded. Nothing we use for a few minutes should be allowed to pollute our rivers and oceans for hundreds of years--especially when we don't really need it.

  I pledge to say "no" to plastic straws on this National Skip the Straw Day, February 22, 2019, and beyond.

• Tell the EPA: No Dirty Water Rule

  RE: Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OW-2018-014

  Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler:

  The EPA's proposal to drastically weaken Clean Water Act protections is unacceptable. The proposed rule would wipe out federal protection for streams that provide drinking water to tens of millions of people, and for wetlands that filter pollution and protect our communities from flooding.

  Please abandon this proposed rollback and return to the 2015 Clean Water Rule, which helped protect drinking water sources for 117 million Americans.

  Sincerely,

• Stand Up For Energy Efficiency

  We have the power to waste less and use our energy wisely and more efficiently. Sign up to learn more about action you can take at home, in your community and in your state.

• Protect the Endangered Species Act

  Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross:

  The Endangered Species Act (ESA) has formed the bedrock of American conservation for over 40 years, and has been 99 percent effective at preventing extinction. The proposed regulatory changes would make it easier to take protected status away from vulnerable species, and harder to protect the habitat they depend on to survive.

  To protect our nation's rich biodiversity and the health of ecosystems on which we all depend, I urge you to withdraw the proposed changes to the ESA, specifically those contained in Dockets No. FWS-HQ-ES-2018-0006, No. FWS-HQ-ES-2018-0007, and No. FWS-HQ-ES-2018-0009.

  Sincerely,

• Don't let the EPA put the brakes on clean cars

  Dear EPA Acting Administrator Wheeler,

  I oppose any efforts to weaken national fuel efficiency and emission standards for cars.

  If kept intact, these standards would cut carbon pollution nationwide by 6 billion metric tons, protecting the environment and public health. In addition, the average American household will save $2,800 under these standards.

  You should be strengthening clean car standards, not putting the nation in reverse.

  Sincerely,

  *This comment will also be submitted to the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration.

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• Don't let the EPA put the brakes on clean cars

  Dear EPA Acting Administrator Wheeler,

  I oppose any efforts to weaken national fuel efficiency and emission standards for cars.

  If kept intact, these standards would cut carbon pollution nationwide by 6 billion metrics tons, protecting the environment and public health. In addition, the average American household will save $2,800 under these standards.

  You should be strengthening clean car standards, not putting the nation in reverse.

  Sincerely,

• Join our call to go 100 percent renewable

  Join our call on leaders to do all they can to move us toward 100 percent clean, renewable energy.

• No bees, no food

  Millions of bees are dying off, with alarming consequences for our environment and our food supply.

  It's urgent we protect our bees. Tell the governor to declare a moratorium on bee-killing pesticides.

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• Tell Cargill to end its role in tropical deforestation

  Cargill CEO David W. MacLennan,

  Deforestation is on the rise in areas of Brazil where Cargill sources commodities like soy, the cultivation of which has been linked to deforestation. And when tropical forests like these are crucial to protecting endangered species and slowing global warming, we can't afford to wait until 2030 to take action.

  Cargill can be a leader when it comes to ending deforestation. I urge you to strengthen Cargill's commitment to eliminate deforestation in its supply chain by committing to achieve zero-deforestation by 2020.

  Sincerely,

• Tell Pres. Trump: WRONG WAY on clean cars!

  The Trump administration's moves to roll back America's clean car standards recklessly endanger our health and climate. If we slam the brakes on standards that reduce climate-destabilizing tailpipe emissions from cars, it will be more likely that the cars we drive tomorrow will burn more gas, trigger more asthma attacks, and accelerate climate change.

  Tell Pres. Trump: That's the WRONG WAY on clean cars.

• Urge the governor to get the lead out of school drinking water

  There is lead-tainted water in schools and pre-schools across the country, flowing from fountains and faucets where our kids drink water every day.

  Lead is highly toxic and especially dangerous to children. But right now, many states have no requirements to address the threat of lead in drinking water.

  Urge the governor to get the lead out of school drinking water.

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• Tell the CEO of Cargill to help stop tropical deforestation

  Dear Dave MacLennan:

  Tropical forest destruction drives out the orangutans, elephants, jaguars and other threatened or endangered animals that live in the forests. What's more, scientists estimate that razing forests to make way for crops or cattle accounts for 10-15 percent of the pollution that's warming the planet and changing the climate. As one of the biggest players in the world's food market, Cargill is in a position to help save our tropical forests. I urge Cargill to honor its 2014 pledge to end deforestation in all of its supply chains by 2020.

  Sincerely,

• Protect Our Water from Coal Ash

  Dear EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt,

  Coal ash poses a major threat to our waterways, putting them at risk of toxics like arsenic, mercury and lead. Researchers have found evidence of more than 200 cases of coal ash spills and contamination in the US, and the last thing we should do is weaken the few regulations that currently exist. Stand up for our water and don't cut back on coal ash regulations.

• Tell the EPA: Don't Put Our Drinking Water at Risk

  Dear EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt,

  Please do not weaken protections for groundwater under the Clean Water Act.

  Groundwater is the source of drinking water for millions of Americans, and without strong protections, this drinking water source will be at risk from leaky landfills, fracking waste pits, manure lagoons at factory farms, and other pollution sources. Exempting pollution that flows into groundwater from the Clean Water Act would put our drinking water at risk.

• Tell Scott Pruitt: WRONG WAY on clean cars!

  EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is rolling back the standards that reduce climate-destabilizing tailpipe emissions from cars. Recklessly slamming the brakes on this progress makes it more likely the cars we drive tomorrow will burn more gas, trigger more asthma attacks, and accelerate climate change.

  Tell Scott Pruitt: That's the WRONG WAY on clean cars. Cite him for driving to endanger the planet today.

• Protect our waters and wildlife from waste

  Dear Governor,

  Each year, Americans throw away millions of foam cups and take-out boxes. Too often, this pollution ends up in our oceans and rivers, where it can harm or even kill birds, fish and other wildlife.

  Something we use for a few minutes shouldn't be allowed to pollute our environment for hundreds of years. I urge you to support a ban on foam cups and boxes made of polystyrene to reduce pollution in our waters and protect wildlife.

  Sincerely,

• Tell your representatives to vote against anti-environment riders

  The anti-environment riders in the budget bill hijack the budget process, cut the public out, and threaten our rivers, lakes and streams. Tell your members of Congress today to vote no on any bill that contains anti-environment riders.

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• Bee our Valentine? Sign Our Valentine to the EPA

  Happy Valentine's Day! Love is all around. The smell of roses and chocolate fills the air thanks to the mighty pollinator power of bees.

  But did you know that bees are dying across the country? That's right, and without these pollinators we wouldn't have Valentine's Day treats like flowers or chocolate to give to our loved ones.

  So, let's show bees some love this Valentine's Day! Sign our valentine to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency asking them to protect bees by banning bee-killing pesticides.

• Protect our oceans from offshore drilling

  The Trump administration just released their plan to open virtually all our oceans to offshore oil drilling -- and they're accepting your public comment today. You and I and every American who cares about clean and healthy oceans need to make our voices heard before it's too late.

• Tell your senators to stand for our environment
  The U.S. House just voted for big cuts to EPA and other environmental programs.
• Tell Senators to Stand With Our Lands
  Our national monuments are part of what make our country special. For most Americans, the idea that we've found some places so beautiful, sacred even, that we put them off limits to development, forever, is one of our proudest achievements. I urge you to uphold this tradition and make sure places like Grand Staircase-Escalante, Cascade-Siskiyou and more are preserved for future generations to enjoy.
• Save our national monuments

  Secretary Zinke,
  
  Our national monuments are part of what make our country special. For most Americans, the idea that we've found some places so beautiful, sacred even, that we put them off limits to development, forever, is one of our proudest achievements.
  
  I urge you to uphold this tradition and make sure places like Bears Ears, Katahdin Woods & Waters and more are preserved for future generations to enjoy.
  
  Sincerely,
• Protect the waters we love

  EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt,
  
  When it comes to our streams, rivers, lakes and wetlands, the waters we love deserve to be protected.
  
  But the Trump administration has made clear their intentions to roll back essential protections to our clean water like the Clean Water Rule, which protects the drinking water sources of 117 million Americans.
  
  I want stronger, not weaker clean water protections. That's why I'm calling on you to defend the waters Americans love, and uphold the Clean Water Rule.
  
  Sincerely,
• Nevada should lead on climate action

  Abandoning the Paris Climate Agreement will risk our health and the future of our planet. And if Washington, D.C., won’t act on climate, we need to take the lead. Tell our governor to curb climate change by cutting pollution today.

• Defend our national monuments

  The Trump administration could be the first in U.S. history to revoke national monument protections. The first to lose protection could be Utah's Bears Ears, home to incredible scenery and thousands of years of historical artifacts. Our national network is joining together to tell Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to keep Bears Ears protected.

• Tell your local leaders to go solar

  More solar energy will benefit our community by reducing air pollution as we do our part to slow climate change. That's why I support setting strong goals and policies for solar energy in our community.

• Defend the Places We Love

  Dear Senators,

  When it comes to protecting our environment, Americans stand united. We want clean air to breathe, clean water to drink, public lands to enjoy, and a livable climate to share.

  The children we know and love today can live cleaner, healthier lives in a greener world, but only if we can keep our environmental protections in place and make them stronger. I urge you to publicly oppose any bill that would threaten our environment or our health.

• Join the Call for 100% Renewable Energy

  We can have healthier communities and a brighter future. But to get there, we need to transform the way we produce and consume energy.
  
  That's why we're calling for a nationwide commitment to 100% clean, renewable energy. Colleges, companies, and communities across the country can lead the way by committing to getting 100 percent of their energy from clean, renewable sources.

• Defend Clean Car Standards

  The cars we drive should be cleaner, burning less gas and emitting less pollution. Current national standards point us in the right direction. But the president and his administration are moving to roll them back -- which could mean more of us breathing dirtier air, more kids suffering asthma attacks, and a climate that's changing even more rapidly.
  
  The issue is likely to end up in Congress. If we can convince 41 senators to vote to defend clean car standards from rollbacks, we can win.
  
  Tell your senators: Defend clean air. Oppose any rollbacks to clean car standards.

• Defend the Clean Power Plan

  The president and his administration are moving to undo the Clean Power Plan, which would deliver more clean, renewable energy to America and reduce the pollution that's changing our climate. The debate is likely to end up in Congress. If we can convince 41 senators to vote to defend the Clean Power Plan, we can win.
  
  Tell your senators: Defend the Clean Power Plan.

• Defend Environmental Protections

  When it comes to the people and places we love, they all deserve protection. Period. Tell your senators to defend critical environmental protections.
  
  Dear Senator, I urge you to vote against any and all attempts to dismantle environmental protections that keep our air, water, and land clean and our families safe. Please act now to protect the people and places we love.
  
  Sincerely,

• Protect the waters we love

  When it comes to our streams, rivers, lakes and wetlands, they all deserve protection. Period.
  
  Tell your senators to defend the Clean Water Act by voting against any attempts to roll back the Clean Water Rule, which ensures the protection of more than 2 million miles of rivers and streams and the drinking water sources for one in three Americans.

• Thanks, Mr. President!

  Dear President Obama,
  
  From protecting the water we drink and the places we love, to leaving our children a safer, more livable climate, thank you for an environmental legacy that all Americans can be proud of.
  
  Sincerely,

• No bees, no food

  Millions of bees are dying off, with alarming consequences for our environment and our food supply.
  
  It's urgent we protect our bees. Tell the EPA to declare a moratorium on bee-killing pesticides.

• Protect the Grand Canyon

  The mining industry is pushing hard to open the land around the park to claims to dig for uranium and other metals. This could have catastrophic affects on the wildlife and waterways in and around the park and expose millions of people to radioactive uranium pollution.

  But we can protect the Grand Canyon by ending mining activity in its surrounding areas. Forever. Add your name to our petition to President Obama today.

• Tell the EPA to declare a moratorium on bee-killing pesticides

   

• Add your name: Save the monarch butterfly
• Add your name: Save the monarch butterfly
• Tell the EPA to declare a moratorium on bee-killing pesticides
• Great! Here's one way to show our parks some love:
• Celebrate 100 years of national parks!

  As we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service, now is the time to renew our commitment to protecting the best of America.

  That's why we're calling on President Obama to permanently protect the Grand Canyon by declaring a new national monument before he leaves office.

• Swarm the EPA!

  Millions of bees are dying off, with alarming consequences for our environment and our food supply.
  
  It's urgent we protect our bees. That's why we're swarming the EPA with more than 50,000 petitions to ban bee-killing pesticides by July 31. Add your name.

• Say no to mining near the Grand Canyon

  The Grand Canyon area is a terrible place for uranium mining. President Obama has the ability to protect this special place for future generations before he leaves office.

  Send a message to the president: Declare the Grand Canyon and its watershed off-limits to mining forever.

• Say no to mining the Grand Canyon

  The Grand Canyon area is a terrible place for uranium mining. President Obama has the ability to protect this special place for future generations before he leaves office.

  Send a message to the president: Declare the Grand Canyon and its watershed off-limits to mining forever.

• Keep our public lands public!

  It's the 100th anniversary of our national park system. But instead of celebrating America's "best idea," some in Congress want to sell off our treasured public lands -- land that belongs to all Americans.
  
  Send a message to your representatives: Our public lands are not for sale. Not one acre.

• Tell Congress: Not. One. Acre.

  It's the 100th anniversary of our national park system. But instead of celebrating America's "best idea," some in Congress want to sell off our public lands, even as mining threatens the Grand Canyon and drilling threatens the Everglades.
  
  Send a message to your representatives: Keep our parks in public hands.

• Tell Congress: Not. One. Acre.

  It's the 100th anniversary of our national park system. But instead of celebrating America's "best idea," some in Congress want to sell off our public lands, even as mining threatens the Grand Canyon and drilling threatens the Everglades.
  
  Send a message to your representatives: Keep our parks in public hands.

• Join the buzz: Tell the EPA to save the bees

  Saving the bees is going to take all of us doing our part. That's why we're stepping up this Earth Day with a bigger, bolder campaign to stop the use of bee-killing pesticides.
  
  Help kick it off by adding your name to urge the EPA to ban the use of bee-killing pesticides.

• Take action to give our national parks a better birthday!

  Tell your members of Congress to protect all of our national parks, so our families can continue to enjoy them for the next 100 years.

• Give our parks the birthday they deserve

  Mining near the Grand Canyon, a backlog of repairs, calls to seize and sell our public lands? That's no way to celebrate the 100th anniversary of America's national parks!

  Tell your members of Congress to protect all of our national parks, so our families can continue to experience them for the next 100 years.

• Give our parks the birthday they deserve

  Mining near the Grand Canyon, a backlog of repairs, calls to seize and sell our public lands? That's no way to celebrate the 100th anniversary of America's national parks!

  Tell your members of Congress to protect all of our national parks, so our families can continue to experience them for the next 100 years.

• No bees, no food

  Millions of bees are dying off, with alarming consequences for our environment and our food supply.

  It's urgent we protect our bees. Tell the EPA to declare a moratorium on bee-killing pesticides.

• No turning back on clean water

  Polluters and their friends in Congress are taking steps right now that could overturn the president's historic action for clean water. Now that we've restored the Clean Water Act, we're not going to let the polluters carve it up again.
  
  Don't let Congress mess with clean water.

• President Obama just approved the biggest step for clean water in a decade!

  President Obama just restored Clean Water Act protections to thousands of America's waterways.
  
  Celebrate this historic victory by thanking the president.

• Tell the EPA to stop the use of bee-killing pesticides

  

  Bees are dying...but the EPA is still allowing bee-killing pesticides on the market.

  Tell the EPA to stop the use of bee-killing pesticides.

• No Bees, No Food

  Millions of bees are dying off, with alarming consequences for our environment and our food supply. 

  It's urgent that we protect our bees. Tell the EPA to declare a moratorium on bee-killing pesticides.

• The most important thing you can do to solve global warming

  President Obama has proposed the biggest action we’ve seen in years to fight global warming – setting the first-ever limits on global warming pollution from existing coal plants, the single largest source of global warming pollution in America.

  
  Send a message to your representatives in Congress urging them to support the Clean Power Plan. 

• Stop Keystone

  
  
  
  Mitch McConnell is making the Keystone XL pipeline the new Senate’s first order of business. Help stop Keystone by urging your senators to vote NO.

• Save the monarch

  

  Over the last 20 years, 90 percent of monarch butterflies in North America have died off.
  
  And we know the reason: massive amounts of herbicides killing off milkweed -- the only plant on which monarchs will lay their eggs, and the primary food source for monarch caterpillars.
  
  Send a message to President Obama urging him to rein in reckless herbicide use.

• Tell the EPA: It's time to protect all our waterways

  Right now, loopholes in the Clean Water Act leave the drinking water for 117 million Americans vulnerable to unchecked pollution. The EPA has finally proposed a rule to restore Clean Water Act protections to these critical waterways across the country. But polluters from Big Ag to Big Oil are going all in to stop this effort and keep using our waterways as their personal sewers.

  Right now, loopholes in the Clean Water Act leave the drinking water for 117 million Americans vulnerable to unchecked pollution. The EPA has finally proposed a rule to restore Clean Water Act protections to these critical waterways across the country. But polluters from Big Ag to Big Oil are going all in to stop this effort and keep using our waterways as their personal sewers.
  
  Join us in showing the EPA that now’s the time to close the loopholes and protect all our waterways.

• Tell the EPA: It's time to protect all our waterways

  

  Right now, loopholes in the Clean Water Act leave the drinking water for 117 million Americans vulnerable to unchecked pollution. The EPA has finally proposed a rule to restore Clean Water Act protections to these critical waterways across the country. But polluters from Big Ag to Big Oil are going all in to stop this effort and keep using our waterways as their personal sewers.
  
  Join us in showing the EPA that now’s the time to close the loopholes and protect all our waterways.

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  Right now, loopholes in the Clean Water Act leave the drinking water for 117 million Americans vulnerable to unchecked pollution. The EPA has finally proposed a rule to restore Clean Water Act protections to these critical waterways across the country. But polluters from Big Ag to Big Oil are going all in to stop this effort and keep using our waterways as their personal sewers.
  
  Join us in showing the EPA that now’s the time to close the loopholes and protect all our waterways.