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These airgun soundbursts can be heard 2,500 miles away and go off every 10 seconds for months. They are planned on the Atlantic coast from Delaware down to Florida. Please support Greenpeace, Oceana, NRDC, and Sea Shepherd as they oppose this. https://www.ecowatch.com/seismic-tesing-oil-drilling-2402920868.html

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-a-small-town-is-standing-up-to-fracking-w482577

A retired elementary school teacher, her daughter, the local League of Women Voters president, a retired coal company executive, a piano tuner, an interior designer, and other locals passed a law that gave residents the right to local self government. Thus they would no longer be limited to pro-oil state laws. The people have stopped the drilling so far. The retired teacher says she will block the trucks with her body.

Then humans, trees, rivers, wildlife, and the soil could defend themselves against toxic waste. These types of rights of nature laws have been passed in communities in 7 states and in several countries!

Solutions: Require high bonds to pay for the clean-up of polluted water ways and aquifers. Require high bonds for trying to undo harm to human health. Pass local self government (home rule). Give rights to nature. Take away rights from corporations. Support the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund: ttps://celdf.org.

This article says that the movie "The Day After" about how brinkmanship between the US and Russia leads to a allout nuclear war persuaded persuaded President Reagan to reduce the tensions with Russia (http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2017/06/wanted-role-model-of-strength-restraint.html). The stories of devastation affecting believable characters deeply affected Reagan.

Great article on the collapse of big oil: http://www.financialpost.com/m/wp/news/transportation/blog.html?b=business.financialpost.com%2Fnews%2Ftransportation%2Ffossil-fuel-vehicles-will-vanish-in-8-years-in-twin-death-spiral-for-big-oil-and-big-autos-says-study-that-shocking-the-industry

Go to his speech in Boulder on June 8: http://cleanenergyaction.org/

Oil co. Anadarko lobbies against bills requiring information being available to the public while saying that they care for threatened homeowners. They spent $ 7 million lobbying for secrecy and to stop regulations. They hired the former senator, former Secy of the Interior, and former and current corporate atty. Salazar to grease the wheels of government. .:http://www.9news.com/news/local/next/the-political-influence-of-anadarko-colorados-largest-energy-company/441989412

http://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/ken-salazar-working-anadarko-after-promising-honor-federal-ethics-law-2542320

Once they were common in the US and Canada. Then they were hunted for their feathers, skins, and meat. Around 1933 there were only 70 trumpeter swans left in the lower 48 states. Now there are more than 63,000. They recovered because hunting was banned, remnant populations were discovered in Alaska and near Yellowstone, wildlife refuges were created, and they were reintroduced to . Steve Jones gave a great talk to Boulder Audubon about how they are repopulating the lakes in western Nebraska. He likes to go and camp near them, watching their families grow, near spring fed lakes and rivers with otters, and chinook salmon. You can join the Trumpeter Swan Society to help them. http://www.trumpeterswansociety.org/