Tell President Obama: Don’t Drill the Arctic
President Obama was in office for the worst oil disaster in our nation’s history and he vowed his American people that he would devote his time towards a clean energy future. But today, he is not keeping his promise. The Obama administration has issued Shell a conditional approval to drill in the Arctic. In this day and age, when global warming is rising every day, increasing carbon emissions in the Arctic could be catastrophic. Not to mention an even greater risk of oil spills from oil rigs that fail inspections, which has happened to Shell recently. Shell still needs a permit in order to drill, so we have time to stop this from happening.
As Bill McKibben wrote last week in the New York Times, ?It?s as if the tobacco companies were applying for permission to put cigarette machines in cancer wards.?? Don’t let the President sign off on this potential catastrophe.
Keep Chicken From China Out of School Lunches
The U.S. Department of Agriculture
announced that China has been approved to export processed poultry to the United States.
China’s food safety system has been wrought with scandals and cases of unsafe food production for years, most recently involving expired Chinese poultry products being sold to U.S. fast food restaurants based in China.
Congress should help keep our food safe by prohibiting the USDA from purchasing Chinese poultry for federal nutrition programs, including the school lunch program.
Make a Call to Stop the TPP
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a secretive, multinational trade agreement that threatens to extend restrictive intellectual property (IP) laws across the globe and rewrite international rules on its enforcement. The main problems are two-fold:
(1) Intellectual Property Chapter: Leaked draft texts of the agreement show that the IP chapter would have extensive negative ramifications for users? freedom of speech, right to privacy and due process, and hinder peoples’ abilities to innovate.
(2) Lack of Transparency: The entire process has shut out multi-stakeholder participation and is shrouded in secrecy.
Make a call today to oppose Fast Track and help stop the TPP. Click here for a script to read, and a number to call, and let your voice be heard!
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