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Link to article: http://www.denverpost.com/2017/05/17/federal-lawsuit-visitor-center-rocky-flats

You can comment at suwa.org/comment. Also, here is info from High Country News. Here is sample letter from Beverly Kurtz: "President Trump and Secretary Zinke, I have spent most of my adult life recreating in Utah. I am a hiker...

Here is what one activist, Susan Elofson-Hurst, said afterward: "I was at the Sharing session at the Arvada Center last night; the only ones allowed to share were the speakers. It seemed obvious that the U.S. Fish & Wildlife staff...

The plant is being greenwashed- the DOE pretends it is cleaned up by making it a wildlife refuge, which is a way to avoid having to clean it up more fully ( the standards of clean-up are lower for wildlife...

Trump and EPA head Pruitt just reversed the protection of Alaska's Bristol Bay salmon rivers. Please write your politicians and letters to the editor to protest this. Pruitt is approving a mine that will produce 10 million tons of mining...

Ask your senators and representatives to stop the international trade bullies at the WTO and NAFTA from imposing big fines to get the US to drop its "dolphin safe" labels for tuna. These labels allow shoppers to avoid tuna caught...

Click to ask your senators and representative to ban the trade in shark fins in the US. https://awionline.org/content/shark-fin-sales-elimination-act-2017

Leaders in the anti-fracking movement are speaking, after the 4-27-17 pipeline explosion that killed 2 people. pin Front Range Community College Longmont Campus 2121 Miller Dr. Classroom Bldg. Door C-4 Community Rm. https://www.facebook.com/events/105895039964263/ – Dr. Anthony Ingraffea - Professor of...

Enter your zip code and find what plants are good for birds and butterflies. A friend plated a cherry tree that is good for birds and pies too. https://www.audubon.org/native-plants

Swallows are back to nest in the bike path tunnel this morning in Boulder. Sandhill Cranes were flying Sunday morning 4-9-17. Scaups, American widgeon, and blue winged teal are back. The teal come all the way from South America. On...

Boulder City Council in having a public hearing on April 17 at 6 pm. Please come to support municipalizing. You can speak. You can email council at" council@bouldercolorado.gov". Xcel initially, strongly, and repeatedly resists Boulder's attempts to move to renewable,...

Link Earth Guardians won their lawsuit in the appeals court that the health and environment should be protected before allowing oil and gas drilling.

Compound 1080 is is a persistent poison. It kills wolves, eagles, bears, coyotes, and dogs. It can kill humans too. There are better ways to protect livestock. Groups have filed a petition to the EPA to Also, it causes a...

Now we need to get the other ivory markets to close: Hong Kong, Thailand, and Japan. African countries(Kenya, Gabon, Botswana,...) led the movement to shut down. They have been losing their rangers and elephants to poachers. "China Signals Shutdown of...

Jim Green of Friends of the Earth writes in Counterpunch on the 6 year anniversary of Fukashima that the nuke business is sick and dying. http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/03/14/terminal-decline-fukushima-and-the-deepening-crisis-of-nuclear-energy (photo from the environmental justice atlas)

Folks are protesting pipelines in South Dakota, Illinois, Texas, and Louisiana. http://www.ecowatch.com/next-steps-dakota-access-pipeline-2318112920.html . Solutions: march, get involved in politics, support local sustainable food, and divest from banks that invest in pipelines. Here is info on divesting: http://www.defunddapl.org/

Folks are protesting pipelines in South Dakota, Illinois, Texas, and Lousiana. http://www.ecowatch.com/next-steps-dakota-access-pipeline-2318112920.html . Solutions: march, get involved in politics, support local sustainable food, and divest from banks that invest in pipelines. Here is info on divesting: http://www.defunddapl.org/

Scary new photos show how birds look when they crash into glass windows. There are many solutions: covering windows with netting, curtains, patterns, frosting, dark or patterned vinyl, angling them down, having vegetation near the windows, .... threats to birds:...

ACT Donate to the legal defense: waterprotectorlegal.org & freshetcollective.org and the Tribes: standingrock.org & standwithstandingrock.net/donate Take a Pledge: Move Money Out of DAPL Banks Write to DAPL banks, move your money out of DAPL banks and get your city to...