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Joined March 2009
Public lands don’t need to be “put to use.” They already serve a purpose. Public lands are living landscapes with value far beyond what can be developed or removed. #nationalpubliclandsday
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Always delighted to be featured in @mygreenpod In the September edition, EARTHDAY.ORG’s James Banks explores why healthy soil is critical infrastructure for our future, supporting food systems, biodiversity & resilience. Read more: mygreenpod.com/magazine/ #MyGreenPod
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BREAKING: The Trump Administration is seeking to weaken a key provision of the Endangered Species Act by changing how protections apply when wildlife is unintentionally harmed or killed as a result of commercial and economic activity.
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🚨 AMERICA’S OLDEST FORESTS ARE UNDER ATTACK 2 logging bills just got attached to the NDAA as “riders.” If passed, they could: 🪓 Open giant sequoia groves to industrial logging ⚖️ Gut your right to challenge illegal logging in court Take 2 min to act: earthday.org/tell-congress-k…
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There’s nothing more American than our national parks. And yet, there’s something painfully American about destroying them for more money. #publiclandsarenotforsale
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BREAKING: As of tomorrow, the Environmental Protection Agency plans to repeal rules limiting greenhouse gas emissions from coal and natural gas power plants. Pollute away, America says!!! abcnews.com/US/wireStory/tru…
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BREAKING: Vatican releases major new document on climate change and Creation care.
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The International Theological Commission, with Pope Leo XIV's authorization, published "Caring for Our Common Home" on September 2, calling the ecological crisis a theological issue, not just scientific.
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The document warns of an "unprecedented" ecological crisis, urges "ecological conversion," and states plainly: "everything is connected" the cry of the Earth is linked to the cry of the poor. vaticannews.va/en/vatican-ci…
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BREAKING: The Trump EPA has approved the use of the pesticide trifludimoxazin, despite concerns about its potential health & environmental impacts. Trifludimoxazin is classified as a PFAS, or “forever chemical,” because of its persistence in the environment. Previous EPA assessments have also identified “suggestive evidence of carcinogenic potential” based on thyroid tumors observed in animals.
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Here’s what could be coming to your #FoodSupply: 🌽 Corn 🌾 Oats 🍎Apples 🌾 Wheat 🥜 Peanuts & more. Food for Our Planet™ will tackle some of the most urgent food-related challenges facing our world today. More to come soon: earthday.org/earth-day-2027/
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EARTHDAY.ORG retweeted
Seven countries now generate 100% of their electricity from renewable energy: buff.ly/BsB17aj It can be done. No time to wait. #ActOnClimate #climate #energy #renewables
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GOOD NEWS: California Legislature passes balcony solar bill The state legislature has passed a bill that would allow residents to install small, plug-in solar systems, potentially making it easier for more people to generate their own clean energy.
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