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Tell Chevron to Clean Up Its Toxic Mess in Ecuador
Demand that Chevron to take responsibility for dumping 18 billion gallons of toxic wastewater.
Over the course of twenty-six years of oil drilling in Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest, U.S. oil giant Chevron deliberately dumped more than 18 billion gallons of toxic wastewater into the rainforest, leaving local people suffering a wave of cancers, miscarriages and birth defects.
The tragedy in Ecuador is so profound, it has been compared to the Exxon Valdez spill and called the “Amazon’s Chernobyl.”
In spite of the tremendous suffering caused by this toxic pollution, Chevron has refused to clean up the catastrophe.
Demand that Chevron take responsibility for its actions now >
Within the next year, the outcome of a court case sixteen years in the making will be determined by a court in Ecuador.
Chevron has pledged that even if it is found guilty in court the company simply won’t pay to clean up the site or provide health care, potable water and compensation to affected communities.
Chevron needs to take responsibility. But the company won’t unless it feels pressure from its American customers and the general public.
Send a letter to CEO John Watson and tell him he needs to clean up the toxic legacy in Ecuador >
And tell Watson that Chevron must shift to clean sources energy and adopt sound human rights policies so that what is happening to the people of Ecuador and the rainforest never happens anywhere else.
Thank you for lending your voice,
– The Change.org Team in partnership
with Rainforest Action Network
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A look at Obama’s first year in office …by the numbers
Robert Yoon
CNN Political Research Director 
President Obama was inaugurated one year ago today.
Here’s a recap on his first year, by the numbers:
124 bills signed into law
39 executive orders issued
3 nationally televised prime-time presidential addresses
4 prime-time press conferences
5 press conferences from the White House
20 countries visited
(Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Ghana, Iraq, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Trinidad, Turkey, United Kingdom)
28 states visited
(Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming)
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Washington State … Repower America:: tell your Senator:: Don’t mess with the Clean Air Act
As early as tomorrow, your Senators could vote to block the Clean Air Act’s protections against carbon pollution, carving out a loophole that hands the biggest polluters a clear path to spew dangerous emissions into our air and water.
And, unfortunately, it comes as no surprise that this so-called “Dirty Air Act” was literally written by fossil fuel industry lobbyists.1
We have less than 24 hours before the vote could happen — please help flood your Senators with urgent calls demanding that they vote “NO” on this attack on the Clean Air Act.
Senator Cantwell: (202) 224-3441
Senator Murray: (202) 224-2621
Let them know you’re a constituent and say:
“I urge Senator _____ to oppose any efforts to weaken the Clean Air Act’s ability to limit dangerous carbon pollution. Instead of taking our country a step backwards, I hope you will work to pass comprehensive clean energy and climate legislation this year.”
This vote pits the profits of a few companies against the health and welfare of the American public.
The same lobbyist who was invited to help draft the amendment — former Bush administration official Jeffrey Holmstead — represents some of the worst of the worst, including the top three coal-fired sources of global warming pollution in the entire country. What’s more, his clients donated over $50,000 in campaign contributions to the Senator who introduced the proposal.2
This kind of pay-to-play politics must be rejected, and forcefully. Call today and tell your Senators: Don’t mess with the Clean Air Act.
Thanks,
Dave Boundy
Be a Seed for Change 
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