Tag: Climate
By MoveOn Staff. Tuesday, December 10 2013
The ingredients that go into cosmetics and personal care products aren’t regulated by the federal government—so it’s up to stores to protect their consumers from toxic chemicals in these products. That’s why Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner of MomsRising.org started a MoveOn Petition telling retail giant Target to ban poisonous chemicals from the store’s beauty and personal care aisles, expand their selection of safer products, and increase transparency about their progress in addressing safe cosmetics.
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By MoveOn Staff. Tuesday, November 26 2013
When the Texas Board of Education started working on its once-a-decade selection of science textbooks for Texas classrooms, an anti-science faction tried to force it to give equal weight to nonscientific beliefs like climate change denial and the idea that humans and dinosaurs coexisted. Kathy Miller and the Texas Freedom Network stepped up, creating a MoveOn Petition that asked the Board of Education to stand up for science.
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By MoveOn Staff. Monday, November 25 2013
Apply to be one of 50 MoveOn #FrackingFighters and you could win $500, materials, and expert training for your campaign to end fracking.
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By MoveOn Staff. Monday, October 28 2013
Here’s what you need to know about fracking — and why it’s not such a good idea to blast the earth with a toxic chemical soup.
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By MoveOn Staff. Monday, September 16 2013
A powerful, wealthy developer paid off officials to get his way. He wasn’t expecting this grandmother-grandson team to stop him.
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By MoveOn Staff. Friday, August 30 2013
On Thursday, August 29th, Dorothy Reik, a MoveOn.org member from Topanga, to delivered over 70,000 petition signatures from from MoveOn, CREDO, and Friends of the Earth to State Assemblyman Mike Gatto’s (CA-43) and Assembly Speaker John Pérez’s (CA-53) offices, urging them to add an immediate moratorium on fracking to State Sen. Fran Pavley’s regulatory bill (SB4).
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By MoveOn Staff. Tuesday, August 27 2013
MoveOn members joined Americans Against Fracking—and actress and activist Daryl Hannah—at the White House to deliver 650,000 public comments to the Bureau of Land Management demanding a ban on fracking on public and Native American lands.
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By MoveOn Staff. Monday, August 19 2013
If something is totally harmless, why would a company put a gag order on some little kids about it?
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By MoveOn Staff. Tuesday, July 16 2013
On Sunday, July 14th, MoveOn members across the country hosted approximately 300 individual movie parties to watch Gasland Part II, the sequel to Josh Fox’s Oscar-nominated documentary Gasland, which debuted on HBO last week.
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Climate
By MoveOn Staff. Tuesday, July 9 2013
“Oh, you just wanted to get a glass of water, did you? KABOOM!”
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