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TAKE ACTION NOW! Tell the Chinese Government to Stop Putting Profit Over Human Life
Environment  (tags: pollution, politics, environment, workers rights, China, world, protection, government, green, ecosystems, destruction )

Cal
- 159 days ago - forcechange.com
Though China is rapidly developing as an industrial powerhouse and major exporter, it has repeatedly failed to take the same important strides with environmental protection and workers' rights. While the country expands as a key player in international co
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Tell EPA to Clean Up Natural Gas Drilling ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
Environment  (tags: environment, habitat, nature, protection, pollution, destruction )

Cher
- 159 days ago - secure.sierraclub.org
Right now, oil and gas companies are pumping millions of tons of dangerous emissions into our air. In Wyoming, smog from gas fields chokes small towns. In Dallas/Fort Worth, pollution from oil and natural gas fields is worse than the exhaust
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Senate Approves Short-Term Extension of Payroll Tax Cut, Gives Obama Two Months to OK Keystone XL Pipeline
Environment  (tags: animals, climate-change, CO2emissions, conservation, destruction, ecosystems, endangered, globalwarming, greenhousegases, habitatdestruction, healthconditions, politics, pollution )

Kit
- 159 days ago - commondreams.org
GOP and Democratic sources told POLITICO "that the White House swallowed the House Republican-written pipeline rider in order to get a deal to extend the tax holiday, jobless benefits and the Medicare reimbursement rate into February."
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No More Dirty Riders ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
Environment  (tags: environment, destruction, habitat, nature, protection, pollution )

Cher
- 160 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
In a sneaky effort to get as much anti-environmental legislation through as they possibly can, Republican leaders have been busy tacking dirty riders onto sometimes completely irrelevant bills.
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Can 'Climate-Smart' Agriculture Help Both Africa and the Planet?
Environment  (tags: climate, climate-change, agriculture, land use, pollution, humans, nature, habitat, habitatdestruction, world, wildlife, ecosystems, environment, globalwarming )

Cal
- 161 days ago - e360.yale.edu
One idea promoted at the Durban talks was "climate-smart agriculture," which could make crops less vulnerable to heat and drought and turn depleted soils into carbon sinks.
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OP-ED: Deniers-in-Chief: How the Most Powerful Leaders in the World Just Guaranteed Us a Climate Disaster
Environment  (tags: climate-change, globalwarming, Durban Talks, protection, environment, destruction, ecosystems, pollution, humans, world, oceans, politics, water, government, green, habitatdestruction, globalwarming )

Cal
- 161 days ago - alternet.org
The Durban deal -- if left unchanged -- guarantees that we will fail to avoid catastrophic and potentially irreversible climate change.
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Gulf Reopens to Drilling, Victoria Principal Aids Fight to Block It
Environment  (tags: energy, destruction, oill leasese, destruciton, environmental destruction, Victoria Principal, greedy oil companies, world, oceans, humans, protection, pollution, environment, ecosystems, habitatdestruction, animals, water, politics )

Cal
- 162 days ago - latimes.com
Sale of gas and oil leases officially restarts in the Gulf of Mexico Wednesday, after a hiatus following the BP oil spill in 2010, and environmental groups are stepping up lawsuits, claiming not enough is known about the effects of that spill.
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There's No Hiding From Tar Sands Oil
Environment  (tags: Keystone XL Pipeline, obama, politics, activism, protests, environment, destruction, protection, nature, ecosystems, humans, pollution, conservation, wildlife, GoodNews )

Cal
- 162 days ago - motherjones.com
Keystone XL pipeline or no, America is awash with the dirty oil from Canada. Here's our interactive map revealing the refineries near you.
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UK----Water Poisoning Link Threatens Future of Fracking
Environment  (tags: Fracking, Frack is Whack, activism, activists, environment, destruction, ecosystems, protection, humans, healthconditions, conservation, water, pollution, politics, business, environment, dishonesty, news, society, SustainableDevelopment, usa, polit )

Cal
- 162 days ago - independent.co.uk
US study casts doubt on controversial shale gas extraction process - as Government considers allowing its widespread use here
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TAKE ACTION NOW! Protest Belize National Park Being Opened By Corrupt U.S. Oil Exploration to Illegal Logging
Environment  (tags: business, corruption, corporate, dishonesty, pollution, humans, politics, protection, world, forests, ecosystems, destruction, environment, wildlife, habitat, habitatdestruction, green )

Cal
- 164 days ago - rainforestportal.org
With the Prime Minister's permission, Colorado-based oil company US Capital Energy is drilling seismic testing lines through the ecologically spectacular Sarstoon-Temash national park - against international treaty commitments and a Belizean Supreme Court
28 comments
Save The Marine Wealth of The Indian Ocean! SIGN!
Environment  (tags: Indian Ocean, destruction, conservation, environment, animals, green, habitat, habitatdestruction, healthconditions, oceans, nature, pollution, protection, water, Sustainabililty )

Lindsey
- 164 days ago - gopetition.com
For ages the Indian Ocean has remained a congenial bowl, bearing flora and fauna, benefitting all the countries in the region. We have had industrial waste coming in, but not at an alarming rate for us to panic. The Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant...
64 comments
Keep Clean Air Standards on Track ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
Environment  (tags: environment, clean air, pollution, habitat, nature, protection )

Cher
- 164 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
The Obama administration's recently proposed fuel efficiency and global warming emissions standards for vehicles sold between 2017 and 2025 would go a long way to ending our dangerous dependence on foreign oil and combating climate change.
53 comments
No Special Treatment for Dirty Oil ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
Environment  (tags: environment, destruction, habitat, nature, protection, pollution )

Cher
- 165 days ago - secure2.convio.net
Despite a recent decision by the Obama administration to reevaluate the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline and its proposed route, during the past week we have seen legislative moves in both the House and Senate to expedite approval.
25 comments
Tell the EPA to Keep Factory Farm Waste Out of Our Water ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
Environment  (tags: environment, pollution, animals, water, protection, habitat )

Cher
- 165 days ago - secure.nrdconline.org
Factory farms, also known as concentrated animal feeding operations or CAFOs, produce enormous amounts of waste that can pollute recreational water bodies and drinking water supplies. The EPA agreed to consider collecting basic information from U.S.
17 comments
UK Uses EU 'Loophole' to Delay Tackling Air Pollution in London Tom
Environment  (tags: pollution, world, protection, law, environment, destruction, humans, CO2emissions )

Cal
- 165 days ago - theecologist.org
Government lawyers set to argue in High Court that EU rules allow them to delay meeting air pollution targets until as late as 2025 in London despite growing health crisis
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