Tell the Trump Administration to protect drinking water!

We know that fracking and related processes can pollute our drinking water.
That's why, in 2015, more than 1.3 million people told the Bureau of Land Management (BLM): no more waste pits, require baseline water tests, and maintain well integrity.
Together, we helped write rules to hold the industry accoutable and protect our most precious resource, clean water.
Now, President Trump wants to remove these common sense safeguards that protect water quality from fracking on public lands.
Tell the Trump Administration not to repeal the BLM's fracking rule!


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Hold mining companies accountable for clean-up

Across the country, families that live near polluted industrial facilities are faced with dirty water, dirty air and contaminated soils. Too often, taxpayers are left with the clean-up costs.
Right now, the EPA is considering a rule that will require mining corporations to post funds, up front, to cover the cost of cleanup for hazardous mine pollution. These funds are a type of financial assurance in case the company can’t or won’t conduct clean-up.
The rule is simple: you make a mess; you clean it up.
The mining industry is urging the Trump administration to shelve the rule, or gut it by accepting mere company promises, known as “corporate guarantees,” rather than real funds. We can't let that happen:  Taxpayers are already on the hook for an estimated $20-$54 billion in cleanup costs at existing hardrock mines!  The mining industry is the nation’s leading source of toxic pollution.
Tell the Trump administration to protect our land, air and water!


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I support Superfund in the wake of Gold King

Nine months ago, toxic mine waste flooded the Animas River in Colorado, leaving a bright orange plume of pollution in its wake.
Finally, EPA has decided to act to help the communities surrounding the Gold King mine and other similar mines and hazardous waste sites that have been polluted by toxic industries.
EPA is considering adding eight sites, including the area around the Gold King mine, to the Superfund National Priorities List (NPL). Being named to the list gives communities access to federal funds to help with cleanup.
Municipalities, tribes and elected officials along the Animas and San Juan Rivers have come out in support of such a listing. Stand with them to support Superfund designation.
Support Superfund cleanup at the Gold King mine and in polluted communities across the country!


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Protect Coastal Wild Wild Rivers from Nickel Strip Mining

Strip mining threatens wild rivers, salmon strongholds & botanical treasures
Mining companies want to strip mine nickel in the pristine headwaters of the Wild and Scenic Smith and Illinois Rivers along California and Oregon’s renowned wild rivers coast. Nearby Hunter Creek and Pistol River are also at risk. Despite overwhelming opposition, the archaic 1872 Mining Law prioritizes mining over all other land uses!
With crystal clear water, robust salmon runs, and globally unique botanical values, these National Forest and BLM lands are too special to mine!
The Interior Department is considering a proposal to protect these wild rivers by temporarily withdrawing 100,000 acres of surrounding public lands from mining while Congress considers legislation —the Southwest Oregon Watershed and Salmon Protection Act— for more lasting protection.

What’s at stake?
- Vital stronghold for wild salmon, steelhead, and cutthroat
- Public lands that support a treasure trove of botanical diversity with one of the highest concentrations of rare plants in North America!
- Pure drinking water for local communities A 20-year mineral withdrawal is the best way to secure the region’s extraordinary wildlands, wild rivers, and salmon runs into the future!
A 20-year mineral withdrawal is the best way to secure the region’s extraordinary wildlands, wild rivers, and salmon runs into the future!
Tell the Forest Service to protect coastal wild rivers from nickel strip mining!


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Demand the US Coast Guard to Ban Fracking Waste Now

The U.S. Coast Guard has decided to use 40-year-old regulations that fail to address hydraulic fracturing waste. Frontline community groups are outraged. The Coast Guard believes that no new rules are needed on increasing shipments of toxic, radioactive hydraulic fracturing waste. Fracking wastes contain benzene and are laced with radioactive materials like water soluble radium-226, which is linked to leukemia and bone cancers. The Coast Guard will allow these shipments on a "case-by-case" basis but the cloak of secrecy.  Citizens, local governments and even water providers will not be allowed to know what is in these barges. This is un-American, we have the right to know!
Local groups like Buckeye Forest Council have been raising their voice for several years about the Coast Guard's slipshod procedures which allow barges to carry 5 million gallons each of liquid fracking wastes. The current regulations just aren't good enough!
Help us protect our nations drinking water. Please join with local activists in their petition to the Coast Guard asking that fracking waste be banned.


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Protect Clean Water from Toxic Fracking Waste

With nowhere else to put it, the fracking industry was sending their toxic, and sometimes radioactive wastewater to our local water treatment plants. These facilities are not designed to remove fracking chemicals, and the EPA knows it.
EPA wants to do the right thing.
Their new rule would ban fracking waste from our water treatment plants under the Clean Water Act.
EPA is saying that fracking wastewater is so dangerous there is no technology available that can make it safe. We need to act now to protect clean water.
Tell EPA to ban fracking waste from our local water treatment plants!


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Keep toxic fracking waste off our rivers!

Fracking creates millions of gallons of wastewater that's laden with toxic and sometimes radioactive chemicals.
Now, the Coast Guard is considering allowing fracking waste to be shipped on barges down the Ohio River.
A special oil & gas industry loophole in national environmental law exempts its waste. The result? Fracking's hazardous waste is magically called nonhazardous, even though it can contain heavy metals or benzene.
o if fracking waste is sent down our rivers it won't be governed by the same safeguards as other toxics. It will be treated as nonhazardous.
Unfortunately, spills are almost inevitable -- two 2013 barge accidents have already caused serious oil spills. And when spills occur, they will contaminate the drinking water of the 3 million people who get their water from the Ohio River.
Tell the Coast Guard to keep fracking waste off our rivers!


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Obama: reopen the investigations on fracking

We need your help to protect communities living with fracking! Urge President Obama and Gina McCarthy to reopen the fracking investigations.
Over the past year, the Obama administration has advocated an "all of the above" energy strategy, including pushing for natural gas extraction from fracking. Despite clear evidence of water and air pollution that harms the families with extraction in their backyards, and a promise from the President himself not to drill unless it is done safely, the Obama administration continues to turn a blind eye to the devastation caused by oil and gas extraction.
When early results of investigations in Dimock, Pennsylvania, Parker County, Texas and Pavillion, Wyoming showed that the EPA had evidence linking gas drilling and fracking operations to groundwater contamination, the Obama administration chose to "see no evil" and abandon the investigations. Leaving impacted communities to fend for themselves.


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Protect the Chetco Wild and Scenic River

Protect the Chetco Wild and Scenic River

 The Wild and Scenic Chetco River is renowned for world-class salmon & steelhead runs, and crystal clear water.
But it is still vulnerable to mining thanks to the General Mining Law of 1872 -- which gives mining precedence over all other uses.
Thankfully, the Interior Department is considering protecting 17 miles of river from mining for the next 5 years -- to give Congress time to pass more lasting protection.
But the clock is ticking! If the Interior Secretary, and Congress, don't act soon the river will be open to mining once again.
TAKE ACTION: Tell the Interior Secretary and Congress to protect the Chetco Wild and Scenic River from suction dredge mining. 


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Fracking, Science, not secrecy

Fracking, Science, not secrecy

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has a chance to set an example for how the rest of the country should protect public health from fracking's impacts.
But right now, it looks like the only example he's going to set will be a bad one.
The state's health review is proceeding under a veil of secrecy, without any chance for input from health profesionals, or directly impacted communities.
To make things worse, the state is moving forward with fracking rules before the health review is even finished -- severing science from the rulemaking process.
TAKE ACTION: Let Governor Cuomo know we're watching. Tell him to release the public health review and allow public comment.
He needs to keep his promise to allow the science to determine whether New York moves forward with fracking.


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Protect the Wild and Scenic Illinois River

Protect the Wild and Scenic Illinois River

Oregon's Wild and Scenic Illinois River is now protected from mining because of its scenic beauty, salmon and steelhead fishery, and recreational values.
But that protection is set to expire in June 2013 -- leaving 13 miles of the river at risk.
Please tell the Interior Department to renew the Illinois River's protection against mining! Because some places simply shouldn't be mined.


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Perú: defensores de la naturaleza criminalizados

Perú: defensores de la naturaleza criminalizados
 
El elevado costo del oro para las regiones mineras
Ninguna persona puede ser asesinada, ni herida, amenazada, intimidada o detenida por manifestarse en búsqueda de la justicia social y defensa de los derechos humanos y la madre tierra. Pero eso es lo que ha sucedido esta semana en Perú. Los manifestantes se oponían al proyecto minero Conga, que secará cuatro lagunas y afectará negativa e irremediablemente la vida de los pobladores de Cajamarca.
La Empresa Minera Yanacocha no tiene en absoluto licencia social y sin embargo ha obtenido carta blanca de su gobierno para ir adelante con su proyecto minero de oro Conga. Esto es la causa de las continuas protestas en Cajamarca.

Libertad inmediata para los detenidos
Marco Arana, así como los demás detenidos arbitrariamente, no han cometido ningún delito y no se sabe de qué les acusan.
Marco Arana fue detenido en una plaza pública de Cajamarca, golpeado y torturado (ver vídeo). Los pasados días la abogada de la organización local Grufides, Amparo Abanto, fue también agredida.
En este clima existe gran preocupación por la integridad de los defensores de la vida y la naturaleza en Cajamarca. Responsabilizamos a las autoridades del gobierno causantes de esta arbitrariedad de lo que pueda sucederles.
En su reciente gira por Europa el presidente Humala recibió la preocupación de jefes de gobierno, diputados y la opinión pública en manifestaciones para que escuche los reclamos de los pueblos afectados por la gran minería.
Estos hechos no deben repetirse nunca y se requiere la rápida reacción y solidaridad internacional. Si firma la carta, esta se enviará automáticamente a varias embajadas y ministerios de Perú.


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Protect Our Water From Diesel

Protect Our Water From Diesel

EPA needs to hear from the public about their draft policies for protecting drinking water from diesel use in hydraulic fracturing gas and oil drilling. Diesel is a special risk for drinking water because:
- The chemicals in diesel are linked to numerous adverse health effects including cancer, kidney and liver problems and nervous system damage.
- They are toxic at very low levels and are soluble in water, which is of particular concern when injecting them into the ground near underground sources of drinking water.

Earthworks is calling on EPA to:
- Ban the use of diesel in hydraulic fracturing
- If use of diesel in hydraulic fracturing is not banned, EPA’s final Guidance should put in place the strictest possible requirements in order to protect underground sources of drinking water.
- Initiate formal rulemaking, in order to give the protections the full force of the law.
- Use a broad definition of “diesel” to best protect drinking water from BTEX compounds.


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Bancos financian destrucción de selva en Panamá

Bancos europeos financian destrucción de selva y ríos en Panamá

La selva de los indígenas Ngäbe en la provincia Chiriquí es un paraíso para anfibios y reptiles. Ahora, parte del mismo debe desaparecer, para generar la energía hidroeléctrica, de la que llaman „limpia“. Los Ngäbe afectados por el proyecto piden ayuda para detener la obra financiada por bancos de desarrollo, algunos europeos como el DEG de Alemania.
Por favor, participe de la nueva protesta escribiéndo a los responsables del banco, según el modelo de carta que hemos preparado. Puede hacerlo casi con un simple click.


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Stop trashing the world's waters

Stop trashing the world's waters

March 22, is celebrated globally as World Water Day. With 7 billion people on the planet, the world's rivers, lakes, streams and oceans are more overstretched than ever.
So we should be working to sustain and strengthen these precious resources, right?
Tell that to the mining industry. They seem to have missed that memo.
Every year, gold, copper and other metals mines dump over 180 million tons of mine waste into the world's waters – and much of this contaminated with toxic chemicals such as arsenic and lead.
This massive dumping is taking a tremendous toll on communities and ecosystems from Alaska and Canada to Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
This World Water Day, tell the mining industry to stop trashing our waters!
Thus far, just one major mining company, Australia's BHP Billiton, has a written policy against dumping wastes into rivers and oceans, and not one has a policy against dumping in lakes.


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Tell Senate Leader to block attack on clean water rules

Tell Senate Leader to block attack on clean water rules

The rules protecting our water from pesticide contamination are once again under attack. This time, the pesticide lobbyists and their supporters in Congress are using the specter of West Nile virus to try to reopen recently closed loopholes for pesticide use near waterways.
Take Action» Tell Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to continue blocking efforts to strip pesticides from the Clean Water Act. So far, Senator Reid has held the line. He needs to know we appreciate — and continue to need — his leadership.
We all know that West Nile virus is a serious threat to public health, and protecting communities deserves top priority. We also know from on-the-ground facts that pesticide spraying is rarely the best approach. Pointing to West Nile as a reason to weaken our federal water laws is simply disingenuous.
A court decision recently closed a longstanding loophole, bringing pesticides under the Clean Water Act when sprayed near waterways. As industry lobbyists know well, this national water law provides much stronger protections (and enforcement) than our old and weak federal pesticide law.


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Perú: ¡ El agua es vital, el oro es mortal !

Desde Cajamarca en Perú ¡ El agua es vital, el oro es mortal !

Ocho mil campesinos vigilan desde hace días sus lagunas a 4 mil mts sobre el nivel del mar para evitar su destrucción. El sistema hídrico está gravemente amenazado por la minería, y consideran que de éste depende su vida. Exigen que el gobierno de Ollanta Humala, quien hizo campaña electoral prometiendo que protegería el agua- cancele el proyecto minero de oro La Conga. Firma una carta dirigida al presidente y autoridades responsables.


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Save the Colorado River

A private developer has a scheme to suck 81 billion gallons a year from Wyoming's Green River and pipe it more than 500 miles, over a mountain range, all the way to Colorado.
This pipeline would devastate trout populations, protected wildlife habitats, and local tourism and recreation spots in Wyoming, Colorado, and Utah. Plus, the water shipped to Colorado would be the most expensive in the state's history.


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No more dumping mine waste in our waters!

The mining industry is using our lakes and streams as waste dumps
Mining corporations are using two Clean Water Act loopholes to dump their toxic mining waste directly into the waters we all rely on. In the process, these multinational companies are turning some of America's most pristine lakes and streams into industrial waste dumps.

Death by mining waste
In Alaska, the Kensington gold mine is pumping hundreds of thousands of gallons of toxics per day into Lower Slate Lake, killing its fish and aquatic life.
And we can expect more of the same: given the choice between treating their waste properly and just dumping into lakes and streams – mining companies will take the easy way out every time.


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