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Tag Archives: environment
Get down and dirty with RAN
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On 10/10/10 we’re joining our friends at 350.org and thousands of people around the world for a day of action meant to inspire real leadership on the climate crisis and demand that corporations clean up their dirty energy. In true RAN style, however, we’ll be targeting one of the country‘s biggest and baddest corporations: Chevron. Will you join us in demanding that Chevron clean up its dirty energy? RAN will be heading to Chevron gas stations across the country to show this corporate polluter how the clean up their act. From their dirty oil refinery in Richmond, California, to their toxic legacy in Ecuador‘s rainforest, Chevron is a danger to our communities, our health and the climate. Take action on 10/10/10 at a Chevron gas station near you. Head out to your local Chevron station with us. Sign up to start a 10/10/10 day of action at your Chevron station. All you need are some “cleaning supplies,” some friends and some fun. Don’t worry; we’ll make sure you have all the things you need to make your event a success. One last thing: we want to share your actions with the world. So don’t forget to bring a camera, capture the moment and send us your photos or videos. Let’s get to work and hold corporate polluters like Chevron accountable on 10/10/10. See you at the stations!
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GreenPeace September newsletter
 monthly newsletter, September Action needed to help save sea lions! You can help protect the world’s largest sea lion, the Steller sea lion of the North Pacific, by telling the National Marine Fisheries Service to adopt the protective measures they have identified as needed for the species to survive. After years of delays and undue industry influence, NMFS released a Draft Biological Opinion (BiOP) on Steller sea lions on August 2nd. This new BiOp finds that commercial fishing is the most likely cause of sea lion declines in the western Aleutian Islands and their failure to recover in other areas. Fishing fleets are catching too much of the fish Steller sea lions need to eat for their survival. Take action and let the agency know you support their own conclusions and urge them to move forward and give Steller sea lions the protection they need. Be the Change!
For more information, to share this with your favorite students, or to apply TODAY for our Spring 2011 semester in San Francisco, check out the application page or email us at: got@wdc.greenpeace.org. The Spring 2011 deadline is October 15th, so apply or forward this to a student you know today! |
10.10.10
Greenpeace is teaming up with 350.org, 10:10, and a global coalition of folks doing something about climate change to create a global day of action: the 10/10/10 Work Party. Help us make October 10th the biggest single day of action against global warming that the world has ever seen by signing up today! Over 1,000 Work Parties are already planned. Find one in your area and RSVP today or add an event of your own. Don’t wait. Ship Expedition
We’re nearly a month into our Gulf Oil Spill Impacts Expedition. See where we’ve been and follow along as we continue to support independent research into the effects of the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster. |
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Don’t let Texas oil companies rewrite environmental laws
Send Valero a message: Hands off our nation’s best climate change law.
With the Senate’s failure to pass an anti global-warming bill, legislation on the state level is currently our most direct answer to saving the planet. California already passed one of the toughest anti-global warming laws in the world (AB32) back in 2006 — and its regulations will start being phased in next year. But not if a bunch of oil companies in Texas have their way. Texas oil companies Valero and Tesoro have spent $3.5 million to fund Prop 23 in California; a deceptive initiative that, if approved by voters this November, will effectively reverse AB32. If these Texas Oil Companies succeed in rewriting California’s global warming laws, it won’t just hurt California’s effort to curb harmful carbon emissions — it will be a giant step back for nationwide efforts to fight global warming. So we need to tell Valero that their continued support of this proposition is going to cost them, too. We started this campaign in California in April with our friends at The Courage Campaign, but since then, Valero has upped the ante. With only two months until the election, they just gave another $3 million to fund the attack on AB32. There’s no telling how many more millions Valero will dump into this effort before November — but if we create a groundswell of national pressure, we can force them to reconsider their support. So we’re taking this boycott national. The Senate climate fight made clear that dirty energy companies have far too much power in Washington. And now that the Citizens United case has opened the door for more corporate money in our elections, the best way to stop dirty energy from having an even bigger impact on ballots nationwide is with direct, public pressure that will be noticed by corporate executives and shareholders alike. This type of pressure just made a big difference after Target donated $150,000 to a group backing anti-gay candidates. With Valero leading an attack on the strongest climate pollution reduction act in the country, we need to show them that their support isn’t just bad for the environment — it’s also bad for business. Then, don’t buy gas at Valero. Valero and Tesoro operate gas stations under the following brands. Boycott all of these locations:
Pledge to boycott all of these stations and send a message to Bill Klesse and Valero Energy. Valero’s CEO needs to hear the message loud and clear. Sign the pledge and join the boycott of Valero. Your pressure works. Becky Bond, Political Director |
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Extreme Weather: Face the facts
The facts are devastatingly clear.
Around the globe, we are on track to see the hottest year yet in 2010. From the flooding in Pakistan to droughts in Russia and landslides in China, the effects of this year’s extreme weather are catastrophic and undeniable.
The recent pattern of extreme weather events is consistent with what scientists have projected to result from climate change: temperature shifts, severe rainfall and snow in some parts of the world, and major droughts in others.
Check out Repower America’s fact sheet on extreme weather and share it with your friends.
Despite the overwhelming facts, skeptics — like the now infamous Koch brothers1, Massey coal2 and Lord Monckton3 — will no doubt continue to spend big bucks to keep spreading misinformation about global warming.
But if we want to fight the skeptics, we’ll need a growing number of people to get informed. As the evidence mounts, leaders like Russian President Dmitry Medvedev are finally speaking out about climate change. President Medvedev spoke out at a United Nations Security Council meeting and said,
“What is happening now in our central regions is evidence of this global climate change, because we have never in our history faced such weather conditions in the past. This means that we need to change the way we work, change the methods that we used in the past.”4
In Pakistan, nearly 1,600 people have died this summer from the worst monsoon-related floods in living memory. And around the world, 2000-2009 was the warmest decade on record5, and 2010 is on track to be the warmest year the world has seen in 131 years.
Extreme weather events are putting lives in danger all around the world. Make sure you get the facts and spread the word.
Learn more about the link between extreme weather and climate change today.
Thanks for getting involved,
Dave Boundy
Campaign Manager
Repower America
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