Tell President Obama to Veto the Monsanto Protection Act!

Late last week Congress succeeded in passing Section 735, aka the Monsanto Protection Act, in the Continuing Resolution spending bill – HR 933. Once again, Monsanto and the biotech industry have used their lobbying power to undermine your basic rights. We need you to sign a petition to President Obama and tell him to veto HR 933 and the Monsanto Protection Act.?With the Senate passage of the Monsanto Protection Act, biotech lobbyists are one step closer to making sure that their new GMO crops can evade any serious scientific or regulatory review. This dangerous provision, the Monsanto Protection Act, strips judges of their constitutional mandate to protect consumer and farmer rights and the environment, while opening up the floodgates for the planting of new untested genetically engineered crops, endangering farmers, citizens and the environment. Click here to sign the petition and then call President Obama and demand that he veto HR 933.

Stop ConocoPhillips From Drilling in the Arctic

ConocoPhillips is sticking with its reckless plans to drill in the Arctic despite the failures and fears of its rivals. Shell, who spent 7 years and $5 billion dollars on exploration, was forced to halt its 2013 plan to drill in the Arctic after a series of blunders and accidents including the grounding of its drill rig. And when oil giant Total SA?s CEO says ?Energy companies should not drill for crude oil in Arctic waters because the environmental risks are too high?, we should all be alarmed when that advice is ignored. ConocoPhillips has pulled out of environmentally sensitive areas from public pressure before, dropping its plans to drill in the Amazon last year. Currently, the US Bureau of Energy and Management is reviewing ConocoPhillips’ 2014 plan for the Chukchi Sea, the same Arctic sea Shell failed to drill at. Just last Thursday, the Bureau barred Shell from drilling in the Arctic after allowing them to drill in 2012. Public pressure campaigns from groups like Greenpeace succeeded in spotlighting Shell?s safety blunders and halting its current plan to drill in the Arctic. The BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill was catastrophic, but an oil spill in the Arctic would be far worse. The Arctic?s isolation from the rest of the world makes oil cleanup next to impossible. Its severe weather and unpredictable ice floes increase the likelihood of spills. Most dangerously, there is no proven method to clean up oil spills in the Arctic?s extreme conditions. ConocoPhillips? proposed drill site is in a pristine and remote part of the world with no roads, airports, or hotels nearby to support clean up efforts. Oil companies: We don?t need another BP or Exxon Valdez spill. Stop Arctic Drilling! Click here to sign the petition.

Tell Representative Chris Stewart: Promote Climate Solutions, Not Climate Denial

Utah Congressman Chris Stewart, the new chairman of the House Science Committee’s Subcommittee on Environment, recently said:

“I’m not as convinced as a lot of people that man-made climate change is the threat they think it is.”?When pressed by a reporter, he
added “before we make any long-lasting policy decisions that could negatively affect our economy, we need to be certain that the science behind our decisions is sound.”

This is unacceptable. Rep. Stewart should be working to determine the best ways to slow climate change, not casting doubt on the well-established conclusions of climate science.?Sign the petition demanding Congressman Stewart do his job and start working towards climate solutions, not denying climate science.