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TAKE ACTION: Protect your community's voice on public lands

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TAKE ACTION!   Our nation’s oldest environmental law is under attack TAKE ACTION   Robust public engagement and sound science are essential to informed decision making.  Tell the Forest Service: This is, and must remain, the public’s right under NEPA.   For nearly 50 years, the National Environmental Policy Act, or NEPA, has been an empowering legal tool that allows communities to defend themselves and their environments from dangerous, rushed or poorly planned federal and industry projects. The law ensures that your community has a say when special interests want to build a toxic waste incinerator in your neighborhood or a dangerous pipeline next to your child’s school. Now, the United States Forest Service, under pressure from the timber and mining industries, is considering putting our nation’s oldest and most important environmental law on the chopping block. This decision could result in massive logging, dril...

TAKE ACTION: What toxic chemicals are in your cleaning products?

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When manufacturers are required to tell New Yorkers which chemicals they use, they tell all Americans which chemicals they use. CALL NOW!   Urge New York’s Governor Cuomo to require disclosure of all cleaning product ingredients TAKE ACTION   Americans spend billions of dollars each year on cleaning supplies, but many of us have no idea what chemicals are in them. Tell the Governor of New York to require disclosure of ALL cleaning product ingredients. Do you know if your cleaning products contain toxic chemicals that can cause asthma or even cancer?  Right now it’s almost impossible to tell, because manufacturers don’t have to disclose what’s in their products. That could change soon, but we need your help. New York’s Governor Cuomo promised to make protecting the public and the environment from chemical contamination a top priority—but manufacturers are fighting hard to keep secret the toxic chemicals...