Natural Disasters and Impacts on People, Wildlife, and Habitats.

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Plus climate action, a trail-blazing monarch and education programs that help the natural world. View in Browser SHOP NWF  |  E-NEWS SIGN UP  |  DONATE     Save the Wild Things, Save Ourselves Wildlife champions from hundreds of communities across the country came together to tell their stories and share pictures of wildlife and wild places that matter most to them. Read the messages, see the inspiring photos, and urge our leaders in Washington, D.C. to take action on climate. Hurricane Irma: Impacts on Florida Wildlife & Habitat Hurricane Irma was the strongest Atlantic hurricane on record and maintained winds of 185 mph for longer than any tropical cyclone in the world. As we begin to recover from this extreme storm, the fate of many of the state's unique wildlife species and native habitats remain unknown. Texas Birds and Bays — Hurricane Harvey's Ecosystem Impacts As the nation's eyes focus on the state of Texas, it is worth taking time to consider the region's significant ecological importance and the potential impacts from the storm on the natural world. Here is a look at some of the species — and the places they depend on — that could see impacts from Hurricane Harvey. Top 10 Reasons to Join Eco-Schools USA Why have almost 5,000 schools joined this global education program that empowers students to be change makers for wildlife and the environment? Read about the free Eco-Schools USA program. A Tale of a Trail-blazing Monarch What started with a dedicated teacher and students planting milkweed in the schoolyard, ended up with the longest recorded migration of an Oregon tagged monarch butterfly! Learn about monarch butterfly education and surprising outcomes. Join the Conversation         DONATE Forward | Sign Up | Contact Us Privacy Policy | Unsubscribe NWF.org © 2017 The National Wildlife Federation, all rights reserved The National Wildlife Federation is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization PO Box 1583, Merrifield VA 22116-1583

Puerto Rico devastated by #Maria -- We need your help now

Maria has ravaged our island. Once again, low-income communities and others in low-lying areas are bearing the brunt of wind damage, flooding, and contamination from hazardous waste sites. We need your help.

Maria has devastated Puerto Rico You can help by making a donation to support relief and recovery efforts happening now. 100% of donations will go to community-led recovery efforts. DONATE NOW Reader, Hurricane Maria has now slammed into Puerto Rico, and it's much, much worse than Irma. We're experiencing torrential rains, high winds, and flash flooding. Our entire island -- 3.4 million people -- has lost power. Our wastewater pumping stations are offline. With most cell phone towers down, many of us can't communicate with our loved ones to see if they are okay. For most of us, evacuation is impossible. But most of us want to be shoulder to shoulder with our neighbors working to clear the first layers of debris. However, we will be feeling the ecological aftereffects of these storms for decades. Coal ash, which which contains heavy metals like arsenic, mercury, and chromium, has been left in mounds exposed to the wind and rain and now two hurricanes. Puerto Rico's 23 Superfund sites are being slammed by the storm, churning toxins out into our environment. We need your help. We are already working with community-based partners in emergency relief efforts from Irma -- including our Puerto Rico Chapter. You have been so generous in your support of Gulf Coast residents and organizations -- thank you -- and we hope that you'll again step up to help those most vulnerable to Maria's wrath. If you're willing and able to pitch in to help communities impacted by Hurricane Maria, will you please rush a donation of $5 or more today? 100% of your gift will go directly to those impacted by this catastrophic hurricane. Make a donation to the Sierra Club's Maria relief efforts today. Remember, 100% of funds donated will go directly to community-led recovery efforts in areas impacted by Maria. Once again, low-income communities and others in low-lying areas are bearing the brunt of wind damage, flooding, and contamination from hazardous waste sites. The people in Maria's path need your help. The Sierra Club will once again work with local organizations in the communities hardest hit by this unrelenting storm. Your emergency donation of $5 or more today will help ensure that, as we promised in Texas, no person or community is left behind. 100% of donations will go towards Maria relief. Please, contribute what you can to support on-the-ground relief and recovery efforts for Puerto Rico. 100% of donations will go towards community-led Maria response efforts. Thank you for your empathy and generosity, as we hunker down in Puerto Rico to ride out this epically disastrous storm and prepare for long-reaching recovery. Please, stay tuned for ways that you can continue to help in the weeks and months to come. Sincerely, Adriana Gonzalez, Environmental Justice Organizing Representative, Sierra Club Puerto Rico Chapter Image: Ave. Luis Muñoz Marín, Santa Juana, PR. Photo by Ashley Amanda Peña Colón.

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Harvey has flooded one of the most heavily industrialized places on earth #HurricaneHarvey #HelpForHouston

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From: "Bryan Parras, Dirty Fuels Organizer" <reply@emails.sierraclub.org>
Date: Aug 29, 2017 6:53 PM
Subject: Harvey has flooded one of the most heavily industrialized places on earth

Learn how you can help impacted communities in Texas.

Harvey has devastated Texas and Louisiana with historic rainfall -- impacting millions of people -- in an area with more heavy industry than almost anywhere else in the country. Congress must make sure disaster relief includes funding to address toxic releases, superfund sites, and a just recovery for frontline communities. Photo by Bryan Parras Dear Reader, My name is Bryan Parras -- I'm a founding member of Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services (TEJAS) and a Dirty Fuels Organizer for the Sierra Club. I'm a long time organizer and resident of Houston, Texas and the Gulf Coast. The Gulf Coast region is my home, and as I'm sure you've heard my hometown has just been struck by catastrophic flooding. This is the third "500-year" flood event to impact Houston in the last three years, but this is the worst disaster Texas has ever seen.1  In the next couple of weeks Congress will vote to approve funding to help Houston recover. Tell your member of Congress we need a comprehensive relief package that is equitable and just for all Texas residents. A comprehensive relief package must include: Funding to clean up toxic sites,  Ensure the right to return for communities at risk of displacement,  Resources to be distributed to everyone who is impacted -- not just citizens, and  A focus on sustainable and locally-led development. The Gulf Coast region is one of the most heavily industrialized areas in the country. For many years I've been monitoring heavy industry like oil refineries, toxic waste disposal tanks, injection wells, and chemical plants. Some estimates place more than 10,000 potentially hazardous sites in the impact zone of Harvey. Already people are reporting toxic smells, headaches and nausea across Houston -- I myself have experienced these symptoms. Pipelines are leaking, and already one gas spill has been reported.2 When Congress meets to discuss a disaster relief bill, we can't let them forget the toxic toll this heavy industry will have as part of our recovery. They must make sure they authorize funding to address the particular toxic hazards faced by communities in the path of the flooding. Please, take a moment to send a message to your representative now. Thank you,  Bryan Parras, Dirty Fuels Organizer Sierra Club Share this alert on Facebook Share this alert on Twitter [1] The Washington Post, Houston is Experiencing its Third 500-year Flood in Three Years -- How is that Possible? [2] Houston Public Media, Texas Regulators Report Gas Spill Due to Harvey.

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Don't Rollback Protections for Wildlife

We need your help NOW!

Please don't look away or there may be nothing TO see in the future!

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Date: May 10, 2017 7:04 AM
Subject: Don't Rollback Protections for Wildlife

Tell the Environmental Protection Agency: Don't rollback basic protections for wildlife!   |   View in Browser Don't Rollback Basic Protections Depended on by Wildlife Dear Visitor, I won't mince words. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's "regulatory reform" that includes "repeal, replacement, or modification" of safeguards is anything but reform. It is a frontal assault on decades of basic protections that ensure wildlife and habitat have the clean air and healthy waters they need to survive and thrive. Take action TODAY by urging the Environmental Protection Agency to keep in place important protections for wildlife and not rollback these safeguards. TAKE ACTION » Rolling back basic environmental protections would be devastating for wildlife and the outdoors. We can't afford more toxic mercury in our air and water that will compromise loons' ability to thrive, more paved over wetlands that destroy crucial aquatic habitats, or unchecked climate pollution driving higher temperatures that fuel more devastating forest fires and tick infestations in moose. Almost five decades worth of bi-partisan protections supported by Republican and Democratic administrations, based on laws passed overwhelmingly in Congress, are at risk. Without strong protections for clean air and clean water and a safer climate, the rivers, lakes, streams, mountains, coasts, plains and climate that we and wildlife depend on will suffer. The Environmental Protection Agency intends to bow to industry pressure and rollback or remove many of these protections. The Environmental Protection Agency is accepting public comments right now, please submit a message BEFORE the May 15th deadline. Under both Republican and Democratic Presidents, protective rules were crafted—based on sound science and well vetted, transparent processes—to keep wildlife like loons and thousands of others safe from pollution and habitat degradation. Virtually all evidence suggests that the benefits of these protections outweigh the costs, often vastly. Moreover, the benefits accrue broadly to the public, keeping people healthier, protecting wildlife and enabling everyone to better enjoy our abundant natural resources. Take action now. Wildlife can't bear the costs of the pollution that a rollback of basic protections would bring. Thanks for all you do for wildlife and our natural world. Sincerely, Collin O'Mara President; CEO National Wildlife Federation Action Fund Join the Conversation     © 2017 The National Wildlife Federation Action Fund, all rights reserved The National Wildlife Federation Action Fund is a 501 (c)(4) non-profit organization DONATE 11100 Wildlife Center Drive, Reston, VA 20190-5362 Forward Sign Up Contact Us Privacy Policy NWF.org

New England Braces for it's next wave of Significant #SNOW #NH #ME #MA #VT 24 hour event

Hour-by-hour: Track the nor'easter Sunday and Monday https://t.co/YVuITrpya0 pic.twitter.com/jdBVqm6u2C

— WMUR TV (@WMUR9) February 12, 2017 DIRECT LINK

Avalanche Watch NWS Gray/Portland (Southern Maine) - Simple Weather Alert https://t.co/IZ4StVTWUJ

— Dave Peatfield (@dpeatfield) February 12, 2017

Bighorn sheep are at risk in Grand Staircase - Escalante National Monument #NPS

At 1.88 million acres, Utah's Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument is larger than the combined footprints of the state's "Mighty 5" national parks and Cedar Breaks National Monument.

That's too big, according to a resolution approved Wednesday by the Utah Senate after passage last week in the House.

HCR12 calls on Utah's federal delegation to support a reduction or modification of the monument, which was created by then-President Bill Clinton in 1996.

H.R. 861 - To Terminate the Environmental Protection Agency #NPS #HR861 (update)

If you love the outdoors and want future generations to enjoy it as well, we can't let them dismantle everything that helps the outdoors and our environment! Stay involved and speak up!

The EPA is a vital agency conducting science and management to protect the public. This is why we have #ScienceMarch! #NPS #Resist #HR861 pic.twitter.com/SL26EeVnof

— AltUSNatParkService (@AltNatParkSer) February 9, 2017

Shortly after I posted the above tweet this morning it was taken down by someone.  The bill is real and I have posted the new link to the bill below.

H.R.861 - 115th Congress (2017-2018): To terminate the Environmental Protection Agency. https://t.co/o7uCkwJiFb

— Dave Peatfield (@AdvertiseStuff) February 9, 2017

Get involved! Get the APP! #Congress Check out "Contact Congress" https://t.co/gbp2Gq9fnl

— Dave Peatfield (@dpeatfield) February 9, 2017

Find out the latest news of what is happening in government! Check out "The Hill" https://t.co/G2jxW4TgJE

— Dave Peatfield (@dpeatfield) February 9, 2017

Did you know? #NoDAPL #AllPipesLeak #SaveOurParks #NPS

Fun infographic: all pipes leak, regardless what code they originally adhered to. #NoDAPL #Allpipesleak pic.twitter.com/WOL9lqUpOv

— AltUSNatParkService (@AltNatParkSer) February 5, 2017

Drilling in our national parks? NO! CALL YOUR REPS & urge them to REJECT "H.J. Res. 46". #NPS  https://t.co/OL85E030xj #SaveOurParks! pic.twitter.com/WgTvhdveUF

— AltUSNatParkService (@AltNatParkSer) February 4, 2017

Solar Employs More People In U.S. Electricity Generation Than Oil, Coal And Gas Combined

Niall McCarthy , CONTRIBUTOR
Data journalist covering technological, societal and media topics
Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own

In the United States, more people were employed in solar power last year than in generating electricity through coal, gas and oil energy combined. According to a new report from the U.S. Department of Energy, solar power employed 43 percent of the Electric Power Generation sector's workforce in 2016, while fossil fuels combined accounted for just 22 percent. It's a welcome statistic for those seeking to refute Donald Trump's assertion that green energy projects are bad news for the American economy.

 Just under 374,000 people were employed in solar energy, according to the report, while coal, gas and oil power generation combined had a workforce of slightly more than 187,000. The boom in the country's solar workforce can be attributed to construction work associated with expanding generation capacity. The gulf in employment is growing with net generation from coal falling 53 percent over the last decade. During the same period, electricity generation from natural gas increased 33 percent while solar expanded 5,000 percent.

 Fuel production and electricity generation together directly employed 1.9 million workers last year, according to the report, with 55%, or 1.1 million, working with fossil fuels. The DoE ident..... cont. below Solar Employs More People In U.S. Electricity Generation Than Oil, Coal And Gas Combined

source: forbes

Go Parks! #NationalPark

Happy 102nd anniversary to @RockyNPS! 🎉 #Travel to the 10th #NationalPark and see the Rockies! https://t.co/V8IV7iHeaj 🌄 #FindYourPark pic.twitter.com/Nc0f2AoH6a

— Natl Park Foundation (@GoParks) January 26, 2017

Congress moves to give away national lands, discounting billions in revenue and millions of jobs | Environment | The Guardian

Congress moves to give away national lands, discounting billions in revenue and millions of jobs | Environment | The Guardian:

'via Blog this'

Follow @AltNatParkSer on TWITTER #SaveOurParks

Can't wait for President Trump to call us FAKE NEWS.

You can take our official twitter, but you'll never take our free time!

— AltUSNatParkService (@AltNatParkSer) January 25, 2017

140,000 gallons of diesel mix spill from a broken pipeline in Iowa. This is why #EPA is invaluable for citizens.https://t.co/b8RYgel1it

— AltUSNatParkService (@AltNatParkSer) January 26, 2017

Meanwhile, this article should help guide our comradely 'Alt' accounts in managing their own going forward. https://t.co/foBtSzZWCo

— AltUSNatParkService (@AltNatParkSer) January 26, 2017

Pay us a visit sometime!#climate #sciencematters https://t.co/YnUXXUzT5B pic.twitter.com/s0dmUS7MKW

— AltUSNatParkService (@AltNatParkSer) January 26, 2017

DWITT Dailys: #Resist #Badlands SAVE OUR PARKS

DWITT Dailys: #Resist: Thank you all for the completely overwhelming response to my cartoon today.    For anyone interested in supporting me and my work you can...

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US Capitol

US Capitol

Capitol Dome

Capitol Dome

Overview of The Library of Congress, Washington DC

Overview of The Library of Congress, Washington DC.

Dave Peatfield 12/2016

Library of Congress

Christmas tree@ The Library of Congress in Washington DC. December 2016