Petition Coalition, 1/14/15 - Environmental Edition

Join the "Petition Coalition" by following these links and signing those that you agree with!

One of the new Congress's biggest goals is to push through the dangerous Keystone XL pipeline, which would create only a handful of permanent jobs in the United States, while pumping a huge volume of one of the dirtiest fossil fuels through America's heartland (and using eminent domain to destroy farmland and grazing pastures for hundreds of property owners). Tell the House and the Senate that we have better things to do than help Big Oil transport Canadian fossil fuel to Texas refineries: https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3638&s_src=TWOKXPETTKSC#.VKxhVriUL3k.twitter

Trains full of highly toxic, highly flammable petroleum products course through cities and towns throughout North America every day. Unfortunately, they all too often derail, leak, crash, and/or explode, killing residents (47 alone in one Quebec incident), polluting residential areas and wildlife habitats alike. Unbelievably, when Big Oil is making record profits, many states (including my own, New York) are subsidizing the costs of these dangerous “bomb trains.” Speak out against public money being funneled to support them: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/661/032/375

Hardly a day goes by that I don't see someone purchasing a single item and then putting it in a plastic bag instead of stowing it in their bag or pocket, or just carrying it home by hand. And never does a day go by that I don't see plastic bags floating down the street, sidewalk, or flapping in a tree here in New York City. It's high time that we disincentivized the reckless overuse of plastic shopping bags by implementing a ten cent surcharge on each one. Ask Mayor de Blasio to support the campaign: http://www.congressweb.com/nylcv/2

There's no arguing that Doritos are delicious, but unfortunately, that's also the flavor of deforestation: parent company PepsiCo buys almost a half million tons of palm oil every year, which is produced by cutting down rainforests even though there are plenty of vegetable oil alternatives. Watch the video below and then put the pressure on them to cut palm oil out of their products and make less of an impact on our global environment: http://action.sumofus.org/a/doritos-palm-oil/

Thanks for fighting the good fight, and for all the little ways you change the world!