Urge New EPA Administrator McCarthy to Make Cleaner Gasoline and Tailpipes?a Top Priority

Our new Environmental Protection Agency Administrator, Gina McCarthy, already has some urgent priorities to address. One of the most urgent on the list: cutting tailpipe emissions from our cars and sulfur from gasoline. The cleaner gasoline and tailpipe standards (also known as Tier 3) will prevent thousands of asthma cases and millions of lost school and work days each year by 2030, but the oil industry is doing everything it can to delay these standards. Help Administrator McCarthy stand up to the oil companies. Send her a message today asking her to protect public health and support cleaner gasoline and tailpipes.

Tell the FDA: GMOs Aren’t Natural

Conscious consumers are suing so-called ?natural? brands that have been hiding GMOs in their foods.? In an effort to stall the lawsuits, defense lawyers have convinced at least one judge that the Food & Drug Administration (FDA), not the courts, should decide whether GMOs are ?natural?.? Given that the FDA?s Deputy Commissioner for Foods is none other than Monsanto?s former lawyer, Michael Taylor, whose side do you think the FDA will take? The FDA says ?natural? means ?nothing artificial or synthetic ? has been included in, or has been added to, a food that would not normally be expected to be in the food.?? Who would guess that food marketed as ?natural? contains the engineered genes of insecticide-producing and/or herbicide-resistant bacteria? Click here to tell the FDA: GMOs aren?t natural!

Stop Big Ag From Silencing Whistleblowers!

Ag gag legislation across the country would criminalize individuals who make undercover videos or photographs at agricultural facilities. If these laws were enacted in every state, what little transparency there is within the industrial food industry, would only further diminish, giving agribusinesses free rein to continue illegal and dangerous practices. These laws have already passed in several states, including Iowa and Utah, and almost went through in California, the nation?s largest agricultural producer. Corporate interests, the main supporters of Ag Gag laws, are making this a state-by-state fight, hoping that we won?t be paying attention. The Government Accountability Project is demanding that Congress take action at the federal level and protect agricultural whistleblowers. Click here to sign a petition and take a stand for a transparent food system that safeguards consumers, not corporations.