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CREDO: "Arch Coal is moving forward with the largest mountaintop removal coal mining operation in West Virginia's history -- but President Obama's White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) has the power to step in and block this disastrous project. Tell the Council on Environmental Quality: Protect West Virginia from mountaintop removal at the Spruce Mine." >>>Take Action

Sierra Club: "Urge your Senators to oppose the so-called "Preserve the Waters of the United States Act." This bill does nothing to protect waters as the name implies, but is a giveaway to developers and polluters who are trying to reverse long-established protections for our streams and wetlands, endangering all of our communities and threatening the safety of our drinking water. This dirty water bill would prevent the Obama administration from completing a policy on the scope of the Clean Water Act which would help end years of confusion stemming from misguided Bush administration actions and court decisions." >>>Take Action

Change.org: "In the past several months, three separate studies have added substantial weight to the growing body of evidence showing that widespread use of neonicotinoids is linked to Colony Collapse Disorder. Bayer AG markets its neonics to growers of corn, soy, wheat, cotton, sorghum, peanuts, and other crops. We request that the EPA act now to immediately suspend EPA registration of neonicotinoids and remove Bayer's products from the market. There is so much at stake. We must do everything possible to protect what bees we have left." >>>Take Action

Oceana: "Manta rays are threatened with extinction, but that doesn't stop businesses from selling their parts. Alibaba.com, the world's largest business-to-busness commerce website, sells boots and wallets made out of manta ray leather. This is inexcusable, and they should know better.

Three years ago, Oceana activists joined other conservation groups to successfully petition Alibaba.com to stop selling shark products. Now we're calling on you again. We need your help to tell them the world is watching, and they need to stop selling products that threaten ocean species. We did it once—we can do it again. Sign today, and tell Alibaba.com founder and CEO Mr. Jack Ma to be an ocean leader and stop selling manta ray products." >>>Take Action

NRDC: "The unnecessary use of antibiotics in animals is a key culprit in the rise of drug-resistant bacteria. But the FDA has failed to restrict use of the vast majority of antibiotics in the meat industry. Before the March 6th comment deadline, urge the FDA to take real action to protect one of medicine's greatest tools by ending antibiotics overuse in livestock." >>>Take Action

League of Conservation Voters: "The nation's primary chemical safety law is grossly outdated. It has failed to protect our communities from dangerous, cancer-causing chemicals. We must hold the chemical industry accountable and pass new legislation to safeguard the health and safety of our families." >>>Take Action

Change.org: "On February 22, Amazon.com responded to consumer pressure and removed dolphin, porpoise, and whale meat from their online store after the Environmental Investigation Agency and Humane Society International exposed them for selling whale bacon, whale jerky, canned whale meat, and more than 100 other products. But they have yet to adopt a clear policy that Amazon.com will never sell these items. Quietly pulling those products from their site is not enough. It’s time for Amazon.com to put a permanent ban on whale, dolphin, and porpoise meat in place." >>>Take Action

CREDO: "The EPA's first ever rule limiting carbon pollution—known as the Carbon Pollution Standard—applies only to unlikely-to-be-built, new coal-fired power plants. It is riddled with loopholes allowing new sources of pollution including some new coal plants. It does nothing to reduce carbon pollution from much more significant existing sources. The EPA will now accept public comments on the rule—and as it weighs the public's reaction, we need to show that we expect much, much more from EPA to regulate carbon pollution." >>>Take Action

Center for Food Safety: "In the U.S., we pride ourselves on having choices and making informed decisions. Under current FDA regulations, we don't have that choice when it comes to GE ingredients in the foods we purchase and feed our families.  This led the Center for Food Safety to submit a legal petition to the FDA demanding that the agency require the labeling of GE foods.  In response, Senator Barbara Boxer (CA) and Representative Peter DeFazio (OR) have authored a bicameral Congressional letter in support of our legal petition and will be urging their fellow Members on Capitol Hill to sign onto their letter. Please email your U.S. Senators and Representative and urge them to join the Boxer-DeFazio letter in support of labeling!" >>>Take Action

CREDO: "If Alberta Canada's tar sands oil fields are fully developed, an area of boreal rainforest the size of Florida will be eviscerated, leaving in its wake only giant ponds of toxic wastewater. It's obvious why this would pose a massive threat to all wildlife species who reside there, including birds, caribou and the iconic spirit bear.

But instead of preserving the habitat caribou need for their survival, the Canadian government's answer is to blaze ahead with tar sands oil extraction, and kill thousands of wolves who would naturally prey on the caribou. The Ministry of the Environment's plan calls for aerial shooting, and poisoning with bait laced with strychnine -- a particularly painful type of poison.

Tell Prime Minister Harper: Stop your planned wolf killings! Preserve wolf and caribou habitat, and stop the irresponsible development of tar sands oil which threatens all of us." >>>Take Action