Save California’s State Parks/Wildlife

November 1, 2010

Years ago, I recall an Mtv “Get Out the Vote!” campaign where rocker, Lenny Kravitz says,“Vote, it’s not illegal…yet.” If you’re a resident of the Golden State, Planet Check implores you to vote YES on Proposition 21: Establishes $18 annual vehicle license surcharge to help fund state parks and wildlife programs. Grants surcharged vehicles free admission [...]

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Urban Releaf Green Street in Oaktown

October 7, 2010
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Planet Earth On Thin Ice

October 3, 2010

This past summer in Southern Alaska, I was fortunate to bear witness to glaciers calving into the ocean during my tour of the majestic Kenai Fjords National Park. Ever since that experience, I have been absorbing as much information as I can about  melting glaciers. The world’s two great ice sheets in both Antartica and Greenland [...]

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California Coastal Clean-Up Day

September 27, 2010

For the past five years, California Coastal Cleanup Day has shown steady growth in both volunteer and debris totals, and the initial results from 2010 look to continue this trend. California’s beaches and inner waterways may be collecting spots for marine debris, but Californians have demonstrated their support for clean beaches by turning out by [...]

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Stop Texas Oil

September 19, 2010

Don’t let Texas oil barons mess with California’s climate change law! Texas Oil companies are spending millions to fund Proposition 23 — a deceptive ballot initiative that would abolish California’s landmark anti-global warming law (AB 32), passed in 2006. We can’t let them get away with it. Help the CREDO Victory Fund Against Prop 23 [...]

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Stop the Spray in California

September 16, 2010

URGE THE GOVERNOR TO SIGN SB 1157 INTO LAW Call or fax the governor and ask him to sign SB 1157, a new law that has passed the California legislature and requires that California public schools and child care facilities use integrated pest management to reduce children’s exposure to pesticides.  Here are the Governor’s phone [...]

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September 12, 2010
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September 12, 2010
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Alaska’s Chuit River at risk to proposed coal project

August 15, 2010

The proposed coal strip mine project by PacRim LP would mine through 11 miles of active salmon streams in Alaska’s Chuitna River. It is hard to believe but there is NO law that bans mining through a salmon stream. To date, no permit allowing mining operations to mine through and destroy a salmon stream has [...]

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EPA slashes mercury from cement plants

August 9, 2010

GOOD NEWS! As predicted earlier today, the US EPA has come forward with final standards designed to slash mercury and other toxic emissions from cement plants. Details are available on EPA’s website here http://www.epa.gov/ttn/oarpg/t3pfpr.html We are still going through all the details, but generally this is an extremely positive step towards cleaner air, taken despite [...]

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