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Duke EA Weekly Action Alert

3.18.07 -- 3.24.07

• Air & Water

Support families struggling for clean water
Agency: UNICEF
Lack of clean water is the second largest killer of children under five, and lack of drinking water is one of the most urgent health and environmental justice crises facing human kind today. Pledge to take action in your own life and show that you support bringing access to clean water for all children and their families.

• Farms and Food

Tell the FDA you don't want cloned meat for dinner
Agency: ConsumersUnion.org
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is considering allowing milk and meat from cloned animals and their offspring to be sold as food, without any requirement to label this food as derived from clones. Such new food technology should be proven safe for humans and animals before being allowed on the market. Urge the FDA to keep the moratorium on meat and milk from cloned animals and to require food from clones to be labeled if it is ever allowed on the market.

Help protect the integrity of the organic label
Agency: National Environmental Trust
Don't let the impacts of current salmon farming practices hide behind a seal of environmental quality they have not yet earned.

• Climate Change & Energy

Tell Congress to increase fuel economy standards
Agency: Sierra Club
America needs to cut its dependence on oil and tackle global warming while saving money at the gas pump. Ask your representative to co-sponsor the Markey and Platts fuel-economy bill.

Call on car companies to cut America's global warming pollution.
Agency: Environmental Defense
Cars and trucks in the US emit 333 million tons of carbon dioxide each year - that's more than 20 percent of our nation's global warming emissions! And, automobile fule economy hasn't improved in 10 years. The time for national action on global warming is now. Sign a petition calling on automakers and congressional leaders to support efforts to cut America's global warming pollution.

A better way for NC's energy future
Agency: North Carolina Conservation Network
Right now North Carolina sends $10 to $15 billion a year out-of-state to buy oil, coal, natural gas and uranium to meet our electricity and transportation needs - $1.6 billion of this is for fuel to generate electricity. It doesn't have to be this way. With a smart energy plan, we can create North Carolina jobs, lower electric bills, and reduce global warming emissions.

Urge the Auto Alliance to stop suing states
Agency: Union of Concerned Scientists
A third of all U.S. global warming pollution comes from vehicles. Under the Clean Air Act, states have the authority to go beyond federal vehicle pollution standards and adopt stronger standards for cleaner cars. Unfortunately, rather than make the vehicles consumers want, automakers--led by their legal and lobbying group, the Auto Alliance--are trying to eliminate these clean car rules, making dubious claims about the cost and effectiveness of these standards. Please contact the Auto Alliance and tell them that consumers want global warming solutions, not more spin and lawsuits.

Support effective and real global warming action in 2007
Agency: Environmental Defense
Let's make this the year for meaningful legislation on global warming. Take action to support new global warming policy by sending an email to your senators today!

Exxon: Pay the victims!
Agency: ExxposeExxon
It's been 18 years since the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill and ExxonMobil still has not paid the punitive damages it owes to the victims of the spill. Tell Exxon it's time to pay up!

• Conservation & Land Management

Urge your senators to protect U.S. forests
Agency: Union of Concerned Scientists
Programs to fight the arrival and spread of new forest pests have been under-funded for years, allowing critical threats to spread and endanger state after state. Left unchecked, these foreign insects and diseases could easily cost forest managers, nurseries, the wood industry, homeowners, and municipalities billions of dollars. Call your senators and ask them to sign on to a request for funding.

• Wildlife and Wilderness

Our wolves need your help
Agency: Defenders of Wildlife
On January 29th, 2007, federal officials announced their proposal to remove federal protections for gray wolves in the Northern Rockies--a plan that could lead to the slaugther of hundreds of wolves. Make your voice heard...Urge federal officials to maintain strong protections for our Northern Rocky Mountain wolves.

Stop Canada's cruel seal hunt
Agency: Humane Society of the United States
Join the fight against the largest commerical slaughter of marine mammals on the planet. Last year, fishermen clubbed and shot more than 350,000 seals in the North Atlantic. Almost all of them were babies, some as young as 12 days, and reports indicate that some were skinned while alive and conscious. Stand up today and help stop the seal hunt forever.

Ban trophy hunting of polar bears
Agency: International Fund for Animal Welfare
The effects of warming temperatures on declining polar bear populations and ice habitats--including drowning and starving. With polar bears more in danger than ever, it is time to close the trophy hunting loophole. Polar bears are the only marine mammals that are allowed to be trophy hunted and brought into the U.S. by sport hunters--and there's no reason it should continue. Please contact your federal representative and senators and urge them to support The Polar Bear Protection Act.

Put an end to animal fighting
Agency: Humane Society of the United States
The Animal Fighting Prohibition Enforcement Act would make it a felony to transport an animal across state or international borders for animal fighting. Please take action to help this critical legislation move forward.

Grizzly bears in peril
Agency: National Resource Defense Council
Tell the Forest Service to protect essential grizzly bear habitat in Shoshone National Forest.