Tell the Senate to Repeal the Monsanto Protection Act!
On Friday, Sept 20th, the House passed a Continuing Resolution (H.J.RES.59) that contains the same Monsanto Protection Act that it passed last spring! While the previous continuing resolution was scheduled to expire on September 30th, the new bill contains the exact same language that offers Monsanto 
and their GMO crops protection from judicial oversight and forces the USDA to allow the planting of untested GMO crops without proper scientific or regulatory review. If allowed to pass again this dangerous provision could eventually become permanent, allowing Monsanto to succeed in stripping judges of their constitutional mandate to protect consumer rights and the environment, while opening up the floodgates for the planting of new untested GMO crops. At the same time, Congressman Fred Upton (R-MI) and others are working to introduce a bill that would make it illegal for states to pass laws to label GMOs by preempting state’s rights and forcing the issue to be decided at the federal level. After you sign the petition, call your Congressperson in the next 24 hours. If you can’t reach your Congressperson by entering your information below, please call the Congressional switchboard: (202) 224-3121
Tell the EPA to Investigate Fracking Water Contamination
County, Texas, where an investigation began after a homeowner reported that his drinking water was bubbling like champagne. After fracking company Range Resources threatened not to participate in another study in March 2012, the EPA set aside the “smoking gun” report connecting methane migration to fracking. In Dimock, Pennsylvania, EPA began testing water after residents complained that their drinking water was contaminated from nearby fracking operations. But the federal EPA closed the investigation in July 2012 even after the staff members who had been testing the water warned of methane, manganese and arsenic contamination. And in Pavilion, WY, the EPA released a draft report in 2011 linking fracking to contamination of an underground aquifer. After drawing criticism from the oil and gas industry, the EPA handed the investigation over to the state of Wyoming in June 2013 to be completed with funding from EnCana, the drilling company charged with contaminating the water wells in the first place. This is unbelievable, and totally unacceptable. Click here to tell the EPA that they are supposed to protect American citizens from threats like fracking, not bow to the oil and gas industry.
want a future powered by clean, renewable energy, not dirty, polluting fossil fuels. The journey to a renewable energy future will not be fueled by shale gas. Climate scientists warn that continued extraction and burning of fossil fuels will lead to catastrophic climate change. Click here to find an event near you and learn how you can be involved.
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