Posts tagged: #environment

In The News: Country-Of-Origin Labels May Be a Thing of the Past; Food Independence Proves Necessary for the Survival of Hawaii; Supreme Court Blocks Obama’s Limits on Power Plants

Posted on June 30, 2015

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Country-Of-Origin Labels May Be a Thing of the Past The House has passed a bill to repeal country-of-origin labels (known as COOL) requirements on your imported meat, and much more. If this comes to fruition, there could be 20,000-65,000 metric … Read More

Posted in In The News Tagged with: #clean air, #COOL, #country of origin, #emissions, #environment, #EPA, #hawaii, #imported meat, #labeling, #mad cow disease, #obama, #world trade organization

In The News: Radon In My Apartment? The Spectra Pipeline, Pesticide Residue in Fruits and Vegetables Associated with Low Sperm Count, A Top Weedkiller Could Cause Cancer: Should We Be Scared? EPA Restricts Use of Pesticides Suspected of Killing Bees, There is No Such Thing as Cheap Food

Posted on April 7, 2015

Radon In My Apartment? The Spectra Pipeline Learn in two minutes about how Spectra and ConEd plan to bring fracked gas, laced with radon, into New York via a new explosive, high pressure pipeline. This is bad for the environment … Read More

Posted in In The News Tagged with: #bees, #cheap, #coned, #dirty dozen, #environment, #EWG, #fracked gas, #glyphosate, #harvard, #Monsanto, #Neonicotinoids, #pesticide, #pipeline, #radon, #reproduction, #roundup, #spectra, #sperm, #sustainable, #weedkiller, #west village, #WHO

Take Action: NY Lawmakers: Repay the Debt to New York’s Environment, Don?t Let Tyson Write the U.S. Dietary Regulations, Tell the EPA: Stop Letting Dow Chemical Poison our Children with Chlorpyrifos!

Posted on March 24, 2015

NY Lawmakers: Repay the Debt to New York’s Environment For the first time in quite some time, New York’s fiscal future is looking brighter. The good news: Lawmakers are sparing over how to spend an apparent surplus. The bad news: … Read More

Posted in Take Action Tagged with: #atmosphere, #cargill, #chlorpyrifos, #debt, #deficit, #DGAC, #dow chemical, #environment, #EPA, #jbs, #lobbyists, #nervous system, #petition, #recommendations, #repay, #smithfield, #surplus, #take action, #toxic, #tyson, #usda

Take Action: Tell the USDA No To GMO Trees, Support GMO Labeling, Limit and Label Added Sugar, Is Factory Farmed Chicken Safe?

Posted on March 10, 2015

Tell the USDA: No GMO Trees Without Public Approval With all the talk about GMO’s lately, the USDA thinks they can get away with approving genetically modified trees without the public’s approval. Back in 2013, ArborGen proposed approval to the … Read More

Posted in Take Action Tagged with: #environment, #GMO labeling, #new york, #petition, #sugar, #take action, #trees

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