Take the Pledge: Plastic-free July is Upon Us
A World Health Organization (WHO) working group recently announced that they have concluded that styrene, a foundational component of polystyrene foam, probably causes cancer. 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, maybe we can convince our leaders to ban harmful plastic foam. Add your name to the pledge, today!
“From coffee cups to fast food containers, polystyrene foam — what most of us call Styrofoam — is used every day all across the country. And this plastic foam often ends up polluting our water, and risking our health and wildlife. In early April, a young sperm whale washed up on a beach in Spain with 64 pounds of human-made trash in its digestive system. In June, a pilot whale was found in a canal in Thailand, with 80 plastic bags and other plastic debris in its stomach, unable to swim or breathe.”
-Environmental Action
Let’s all do what we can, and reduce our use of plastic, especially Styrofoam!
#BreakFreeFromPlastic
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Tell your member of Congress: Don’t gut the Endangered Species Act!
“Republicans in Congress have been trying to weaken this law for a long time. For example, last month Republicans snuck a provision into the Farm Bill that would weaken protections from pesticides for endangered and threatened species, like the rusty patched bee, or monarch butterfly. But this new bill is even worse. It’s meant to take away the role of scientists and wildlife experts tasked with making decisions to help protect threatened and endangered species. Instead, it would give this role to state governments, which the federal government has not funded with adequate resources to thoroughly protect critical species.”
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