Petition Coalition Roundup, 12/22/14 - Environmental Issues Edition

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

Shell Oil and other petroleum companies continue to push hard for permission to drill in America's Arctic Ocean waters north of Alaska, despite a government study that found a 75% likelihood of a major oil spill should they be allowed to set up wells there. Tell the government agency responsible that we can't risk this pristine wildlife habitat: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/420/592/011/

While we're on the topic of oil spills, BP has been proven to have been lying when they claimed that much of the Deep Water Horizon oil simply disappeared or biodegraded, since a giant toxic sludge ring the size of Rhode Island has now been discovered on the ocean floor. Unbelievably, that historic environmental disaster didn't make the Environmental Protection Agency strengthen its mandates on cleanup procedures. Pressure them to stiffen the rules on pollution cleanup: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/546/818/729

“Super trawlers” are extreme versions of fishing boats, which drag nets along the sea floor and capture everything in their wake, including many non-targeted animals like dolphins, sea turtles, and sharks, decimating wildlife populations and having a devastating impact on biodiversity in the waters where they operate. Australia implemented a temporary ban in 2012 to protect the sea creatures in their territorial waters, but it's set to expire soon. Ask Aussie Prime Minister Tony Abbott to implement a permanent moratorium on this practice along their enormous coast: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/980/848/040

Methane emissions from oil and gas operations has more than eighty times the impact of carbon emissions on global climate change. While the EPA and the Obama administration have made some positive steps to limit carbon emissions, there's very little discussion of monitoring and reducing methane. Ask them for parity in emissions standards on the two dangerous pollutants: https://secure3.convio.net/lcv/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2017

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