1 Million Comments opposing the Keystone XL!
In just 45 days, over 1 million comments were submitted to oppose the Keystone XL pipeline to the State Department! 350.org set a goal of 1 million comments knowing it was a stretch, but the results exceeded that number! This shows how immense the opposition to the pipeline is, and provides a clear 
mandate for President Obama to reject the pipeline. This type of pressure proves to working. The same day the 1 millionth comment was submitted, the US Environmental Protection Agency rated the State Dept.’s pipeline review ‘insufficient,’ pointing out that Keystone XL would be more toxic and have a bigger climate impact than described by State. Let’s not stop there. The risk are too great. Send your comments to the white house by clicking here.
GMO Labeling Fight Heads to Maine
The growing fight to label genetically modified food (GMOs) came to Maine’s capital on Tuesday as hundreds of right-to-know advocates denounced being part of the biotechnology industry’s “lab experiment” and added vocal support to a proposed GMO-labeling bill in the state. Rep. Lance Harvell (R-Farmington) is sponsoring L.D. 718, An Act To Protect Maine Food Consumers’ Right To Know about Genetically Engineered Food and Seed Stock. Harvell stated in a press release from the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association. ?Consumers have a right to know what they are eating and to make informed choices about the health risks they take with products that are not subject to federal safety testing.? The proposed legislation depends on momentum for GMO labeling but a recent poll showed that over 91% of Mainers are in support of labeling GMOs.Obama Administration Announces 21 Million Acre Oil and Gas Lease Sale Offshore Texas
As part of President Obama?s all-of-the-above energy strategy to continue to expand domestic energy production, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Acting Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Director Tommy P. Beaudreau today 
announced that Interior will offer more than 21 million acres offshore Texas for oil and gas exploration and development in a lease sale that will include all available unleased areas in the Western Gulf of Mexico Planning Area. Despite renewable electricity generation from wind, solar, and geothermal having doubled in recent years, domestic oil and gas production has grown each year President Obama has been in office, with domestic oil production currently higher than any time in two decades; natural gas production at its highest level ever. We can’t wait to see the day that wind and solar energy replace dirty, unsustainable oil, gas, and coal.
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