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Did You Know There’s a $75 Million Cap on Oil Company’s Liability in an Oil Spill?

Did you know that there’s a $75 million cap on an oil company’s liability in the event of an oil spill? Join us in contacting the Senate to lift the ban! [...]

BP Oil Spill: Send Secretary of the Interior Salazar a Message

Send Secretary of the Interior Salazar a message that you support a ban on new offshore drilling. Use our counter to track how many gallons of oil are being pumped into the gulf. [...]

Chase Bank vs. the Mountains

A new campaign is awarding individuals who close their CHASE bank accounts with a limited edition “Mountains Rule” badge. CHASE is the lead funder of MTR — Mountaintop removal — which Robert Kennedy Jr. calls the “worst environmental disaster in U.S. history.” The tops of the mountains are blown off (the equivalent of 1 Hiroshima bomb every 2 weeks) and the debris is dumped into the rivers and streams. [...]

Please take a minute right now, and let the folks at the Office of Surface Mining (OSM) know that mountaintop removal mining needs to be banned. Get link here… [...]

Top 10 Environmental Documentaries of 2009

This year’s environmental documentaries come from all over the world bringing shocking and sometimes tearful topics to your living room — to inspire you to make a difference. These are 10 must-see films of 2009. [...]

YERT: Your Environmental Road Trip

Three friends travelled to all fifty states in 52 weeks to film people who are making contributions to fight global warming. The film is titled “Your Environmental Road Trip” or YERT for short. Everyone from scientists, farmers, dumpster divers, a guy who turn trash into marketable products were represented here. [...]

Agribusiness Just Isn’t Natural

Labeling food “natural” only applies to how it is processed. So animals raised in horrific conditions on factory farms can be called ‘natural’. The US Department of Agriculture have opened up a public comment period on these labels, and what they mean. So take a minute right now, and tell them that natural means natural, and our food needs to be properly labeled at http://www.environmental-action.org/USDA-comment?id4=ES [...]

Gorillas Tweet for Their Lives

Friend-a-gorilla launches Twitter campaign today to save the endangered Razorback Gorillas in Uganda. Become a gorilla’s friend for $1 and follow him via Twitter. [...]

Environmental Degradation as a Significant Source of Our Nation’s Health Problems

As your members of Congress debate health care, we need to make sure they’re considering the impact of corporate agribusiness on the public’s health. To give you an example, just one hog company…. [...]

Catamaran Made Entirely of Recyclable Plastics

Video of David de Rothschild discussing the building of the Plastiki, a catamaran made entirely of recyclable plastics, that he plans to sail across the Pacific Ocean. [...]