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Now more than ever, North and South America’s last wildlands and rarest wildlife are under threat from large-scale logging, mining and industrialization. NRDC’s BioGems Initiative harnesses the power of online citizen activism to help save our continent’s most endangered natural treasures — our BioGems — for the sake of a sustainable planet and all future generations.
NRDC's Save BioGems: The Place to Save Wildlife and Wildlands
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The Principles for the Oversight of Synthetic Biology is the first global declaration from civil society to outline principles that must be adopted to protect public health and our environment from the risks posed by synthetic biology.
Serco, a UK company, has a contract to manage the Christmas Island Immigration Detention Centre some 1,600 miles off the West Coast of Australia, which houses thousands of asylum seekers. The detainees at the overcrowded facility are experiencing serious mental health problems that union organizers say are a result of poor training and understaffing.
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“The EPA has hit a home run for the planet. The Obama administration’s new air pollution standards announced today are essential for limiting global carbon pollution that is already endangering the health of our children and families, as well as wildlife and the natural world. “Audubon scientists have proven warming trends driven by carbon pollution have already disrupted bird migration patterns across the country....Like canaries in the coal mine, these birds are showing us that our shared environment is in peril. “Audubon strongly supports EPA’s historic, first-ever rules to limit harmful carbon pollution from power plants. This is a great step forward toward a clean energy future.”
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Global Response - Environmental Action and Education Network
When the World Wildlife Fund recently identified the top 200 places on earth with the highest and most fragile biodiversity, they found that 95 percent of them were on Indigenous territories. In just one example, La Amistad Biosphere Reserve, which is next to the territory of the Ngobe people, harbors 4 percent of all terrestrial species of life on earth, and 30 percent of those are found nowhere else. Indigenous lands also contain most of the world's remaining forests as well as minerals and undammed rivers, so they are ripe targets for extractive industries. Around the globe, Indigenous communities are under assault by corporations that want to exploit their lands for mining, oil, logging, and agro-industrial projects. Indigenous communities resist in skillful and courageous ways, but their protests are too often ignored by decision makers in government and corporate offices. Global Response organizes international campaigns that magnify Indigenous Peoples voices and get results.
Amazon Watch
Chief Raoni has called for support from people around the world to pressure the Brazilian government to respect their rights and protect their lands against armed thugs sent to intimidate them. After nearly 18 years of legal battles, an appeals court has upheld the decision ordering Chevron to clean up their contamination, provide potable water, and build healthcare facilities. The Achuar of the northern Peruvian Amazon are fighting to keep Canadian oil company Talisman Energy out of their ancestral territory, but the company continues to ignore the Achuar's demands and expand operations. Defending the Amazon is a defining battle of our time and has the potential to shift the balance towards justice, ecological balance and the recognition of our interdependence on nature and living systems.Izaak Walton League of America
Founded in 1922, the Izaak Walton League is one of the nation's oldest and most respected conservation organizations. With a powerful grassroots network of more than 250 local chapters nationwide, the League takes a common-sense approach toward protecting our country's natural heritage and improving outdoor recreation opportunities for all Americans. We invite you to learn about our work and to join us in supporting important conservation initiatives in your community.
Yesterday, The Environmental Protection Agency finally proposed a rule to limit the carbon pollution that is causing climate change. Unfortunately, not by very much. Tell the EPA that stronger rules are needed to meet the urgency of climate change. President Obama went to Cushing, OK, "the Pipeline Crossroads of the World" to tout his expansion of oil drilling and call for the sped up approval of the southern portion of Keystone XL.
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Cape Wind :: America's First Offshore Wind Farm on Nantucket Sou
Cape Wind in the News In a new study published in Geophysical Research Letters an engineering team from Stanford University has identified Cape Wind's site of Nantucket Sound as an ideal location to build an offshore wind farm. The Massachusetts Office of Campaign and Political Finance has fined the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound $22,500 for improperly engaging in and failing to properly report 'electioneering activities' in 2010. Click on the links below to read articles on this subject. Opinions and Editorials ...Now, with a name like the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound, you'd think they'd be a major force behind the push for no-discharge zones in the waters off Cape Cod, promulgated to prohibit what the anti-Cape Wind boating community has been doing for years — dumping raw sewage into the "pristine" Sound.
Environmental Law and Policy Center
After more than a decade of advocacy by ELPC and our many allies in the Chicago Clean Power Coalition, two of the oldest and dirtiest coal-fired power plants in the nation will close. The Fisk plant in Pilsen will shut down later this year and the Crawford plant in Little Village will shut down in 2014. Click for more details. ELPC’s webinar about Electric Car Trends and Policy Updates highlighted the challenges and opportunities ahead for electric cars to succeed on America’s roads and in America’s factories. ELPC Executive Director Howard Learner, Edmunds.com Senior Green Car Editor John O’Dell, and ELPC Senior Policy Advocate Madeleine Weil presented and responded to questions.