Tell Governor Brown, "Water is a Human Right"

Human Right to Water bill package!

The governor has signed four bills that will improve access to safe drinking water. These bills passed the legislature with bi-partisan support and will now take effect on January 1, 2012.   Please contact the governor and thank him for signing these important bills!! – Thank the Governor today!!  

Tell the California Legislature and Governor Brown to support AB 591(Wieckowski). This vital bill will require disclosure about what chemicals are being used in hydraulic fracturing - better known as “fracking.” These chemicals may be poisoning our drinking water – but we can’t prove it unless we know what chemicals are being used.

Please sign the petiton! 

Send a message to McDonald's that they should eliminate foam cups

Tell McDonalds’ to ban foam hot beverage cups! It’s been nearly 20 years since they stopped selling food in Styrofoam ^TM clamshell containers (i.e. polystyrene) after determining it was harmful to the environment. Why is McDonalds’ still using foam cups? We know that polystyrene foam litter is contaminating our inland and coastal waterways and that it is 15% of street litter. Research tells us that all kinds of wildlife mistake foam pieces for food and some species, like the Laysan Albatross, are starving with stomachs full of plastic and foam pieces.

Humans are ingesting part of the problem too. Styrene, the main ingredient in polystyrene containers, leaches into food and beverages when exposed to heat, fats, or acids. Think about that with a hot cup of coffee or tea with lemon! Styrene is a carcinogen, according to tests on lab animals and a probable human carcinogen according to federal agency research.

Few of the 80,000-100,000 chemicals in commercial use in the U.S. today have ever been reviewed for their health and environmental impacts. Companies don’t have to show that a chemical is safe before it enters the marketplace; and they can hide information on the product by claiming "trade secret" protection.

California’s Green Chemistry Initiative (GCI) can address these problems. Creating safer chemicals will protect public health and the environment and save millions of dollars in health care and cleanup costs. It will also generate new business opportunities and jobs that will help rebuild the state economy.

Take Action Now: Send an email to Governor Jerry Brown urging him to support this important measure.

Get Rocket Fuel Out of Our Water!

A coalition of industry and corporate agricultural interests has asked Governor Brown to stall all decisions by California’s OEHHA (Cal EPA’s scientific office) as a way to ensure that new protections for our drinking water are not finalized. This includes Public Health Goals (PHG) for hexavalent chromium and for perchlorate that will protect us from these contaminants in our drinking water.

We need health protective standards for hexavalent chromium and perchlorate. - Take action NOW!