Use your Voice & Vote on November 6th! 

November 6th is around the corner! Next Tuesday’s midterm elections are crucial in helping to work towards a better democracy for all! Now is the time to use your voice, and urge everyone you know to Vote next Tuesday. Every vote counts, and we need every vote we can get! We need to transform our government and end GOP control of the House. We need to work towards Medicare for All, ending the separation of families, and un-rigging the system so that all people—white, black, brown, Jewish, Muslim, and everyone—can thrive. The non-profit organization MoveOn is working to mobilize citizens to get out and vote, and support candidates who are working towards a better future. To see the candidates that they are supporting you can go here. 

You can also look up canvasing events in your area by going to their events map and signing up for one in your area! 

Long Islander’s, Please Join the Voter’s Contact Day of Action to Get the Vote Out on Sunday, November 4th in Northport! 

Help Put an End To Single-Use Plastic in Grocery Stores!

Plastic is one of the worst pollutants in our world. We are bombarded everyday by single use plastic items, like bags, straws, and cups, just to name a few. These items are polluting our oceans, and affected our entire food chain. Also, in order to make these plastic bags we are using natural gas, which is extracted through drilling and is hurting our environment deeply. We need to remove our reliance on single-use plastic items and urge retailers to find other solutions and products to fill these gaps. 

Businesses, local governments, and entire nations have taken actions to ban, limit, or place fees on single-use plastics. Recently, Kroger, the nation’s largest grocery chain, committed to phase out all single-use plastic products and go waste-free. We need Albertsons, the second largest chain and owner of stores such as, Safeway, Shaws, and ACME, to do the same. If big retailers get on board, companies will be forced to come up with real solutions to this problem! 

Sign the petition today to end single-use plastic bags at Albertsons! 

Oppose the Trump Administration’s Pro-Pollution Mercury Power Plant Proposal! 

Photo Credit: The NY Times

The Clean Air Act, and the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards Act are two environmental protection acts that help keep our air clean and avoid excess toxic chemicals to be allowed into the atmosphere. Right now, those basic protections are in jeopardy. The EPA Acting Administrator, Andrew Wheeler, is looking at eliminating the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards Act, which would be devastating for the environment. The Environmental Defense Fund wrote a great article, explaining the top five reasons that this would be extremely detrimental to our country. Coal-fired power plants, which would be the ones who’s standards would be rolled back, emit at least 85 hazardous air pollutants.

Some of these pollutants include:

• Mercury, is a neurotoxin and causes brain damage in babies
• Arsenic, which can cause cancer
• Lead, which can damage children’s developing nervous system
• Chromium and nickel, which cause cancer
• Acid gases, which cause serious lung disease

The proposal would allow the US to burn even more fossil fuels, adding to the climate change crisis. To read more about the proposed weakening of these standards, check out this NY Times article. It is important to make our voices heard, and that is why we all need to vote! We need to strengthen our environmental standards, not weaken them! Clean Air and Clean Water are rights we can not take for granted!

Sign The Petition to Oppose Mercury Power Plants!