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Today, the forest is quieter: On Jane Goodall’s Passing Thank you, Jane, for showing us the world as it truly is: interconnected, precious, and worth fighting for.

Thank you, Jane Goodall, for showing us the world as it truly is: interconnected, precious & worth fighting for. Thank you for never giving up on us, even when we gave you every reason to...The forest is quieter today. But it is not silent." @oscarsoria.bsky.social

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Trump to meet with OMB director Thursday to determine which federal agencies to cut

Trump is using the government shutdown *he caused* as an excuse to fire more federal workers.

Instead of working with Democrats to save healthcare and protect essential services, Republicans are gutting our government so Trump can play king.

The cruelty is the point.
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Republicans shut down the government because they don’t want to fix the health care crisis they created.
Their partisan games threaten paychecks, health care, and vital services for millions of families. Here’s what will be impacted: (THREAD 🧵)

This is not a fight about tax credits.

This is a fight over your ability to go to a pharmacy and afford your insulin.

We have the chance to protect the health care of millions of Americans. We need to take it.

Donald Trump and corrupt Republicans recklessly shut down the federal government.

And the American people know it.

Cancel the cuts. Lower the cost. Save Healthcare.

Massachusetts health coverage on the line in government shutdown fight

It’s simple: Trump and MAGA Republicans shut down the government to cut your health care. Democrats are fighting to protect your health care and lower costs.

Republicans know that undocumented people can’t enroll in Medicaid coverage. That's the law.

They’re LYING to you to distract you as they kick 15 million people off their health care and raise the cost of YOUR health insurance.

Republicans are making us sicker and poorer.

Graphic Copy: The government just ran out of money. How’d we get here? We're in a health care emergency and costs are going up. Republicans would rather shut down the government than work with democrats to save health care. Republicans won’t even come to the table to negotiate, and Trump is telling them “don’t bother.”

Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress just shut down the government.

Why? They don’t want to lower your health care costs.

MAGA Republicans have officially shut down the government.

The harm and chaos this is causing was completely avoidable.

Republicans must end their government shutdown now by passing a budget that protects health care and affirms Congress's power of the purse.

What are carbon credits and why are villagers in Sarawak protesting against an upcoming forest carbon credit project? We break it down for you.

Gutting Food Programs Won’t Make Us Healthy If the Trump Administration truly wants to make children and our food healthier, it must stop dismantling proven programs.

Trump's #MAHA report promised a plan to improve kids’ health. But this new op-ed documents how USDA Secretary Rollins has done the opposite--gutting the very programs that support the farmers who feed our communities and help put fresh, local food on kids’ plates.

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US Ports Get Graded on Protecting Public Health Today, a coalition of national and community-based organizations launched the Clean Ports Report Card Project, grading major U.S. ports.

31M Americans live near ports — breathing toxic diesel pollution daily. The Clean Ports Report Card shows which ports are cleaning up and which are falling behind.

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#COP30 is not a place for polluters to make business deals! Our coalition demands:

📌 A polluter-free COP and presidency
📌 Stronger mechanisms to protect against conflicts of interest
📌 Protection of the Amazon rainforest

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🚨 Breaking: 15 young Americans have filed a historic human rights petition against the U.S. for fueling the climate crisis. They’re calling on the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to take urgent action and protect their rights and futures. PR: bit.ly/petitionfiling

(next to a map of the 2,100 peaceful protests planned for October 18) NO THRONES. NO CROWNS. NO KINGS. SATURDAY, OCT. 18

IT’S OFFICIAL: We now have more protests planned for October 18 than there were back in June.

It’s not even October yet but you’ve already put 2,100 events on the No Kings map.

We hope to see you at the largest day of peaceful protest in American history: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

River cruises are often seen as better alternatives to ocean cruises due to their smaller size, but there is a lot to consider when it comes to environmental damage and impact to pick the best river cruises.

Learn more at foe.org/river-cruise

Under the Clean Energy Transition Partnership, 35 countries pledged to end fossil fuel finance + prioritize clean energy.

Research finds this has driven a 78% drop in fossil fuel finance in 2024!

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Youth Plaintiffs Challenge President Trump’s Fossil Fuel Executive Orders in Historic Federal Hearing — Our Children's Trust As the Trump administration moves aggressively to unleash more fossil fuels through executive orders that worsen climate change, obstruct the clean energy transition, and suppress the very science nee...

22 young Americans just made history in federal court, standing up to President Trump’s fossil fuel executive orders that violate their rights and endanger their lives. Read the full recap of the powerful youth and expert witness testimony: www.ourchildrenstrust.org/blog/youth-p...

Whitehouse, Van Hollen, Merkley Probe ExxonMobil’s Guyana Offshore Oil Contract and the Company’s U.S. Tax Liability - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse ExxonMobil may have used American taxpayer funds to subsidize its foreign oil production, which it does in partnership with a Chinese state-owned company Washington, DC – U.S. Senators Sheldon Whiteho...

Thank you @whitehouse.senate.gov @vanhollen.senate.gov @merkley.senate.gov for calling out a tax loophole that could mean American taxpayers are subsidizing ExxonMobil’s foreign oil production.

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Are GMOs safe? A molecular geneticist speaks out Explore the risks of stacked-trait GMOs and the combined toxicity of pesticide mixtures in this insightful interview with Professor Michael Antoniou.

Are GMOs safe? A molecular geneticist speaks out
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📢 It's time to rise up to #DrawTheLine against the unjust systems at the root of the climate crisis! It's time for #JustTransitionRising!

⚡️ Join us for the Draw the Line Kickoff Rally: it's not to be missed!

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✊ The people united will never be defeated!

🔥💵 Chuck Collins from @patrioticmillionaires.org shares why he is taking action to #DrawTheLine against rising inequality and is calling on the super-rich to stop exacerbating climate impacts at the expense of the rest of us.

This September, join an event near you: drawtheline.world

Members of the MAHA movement and rural Americans like myself have been clamoring for real change on pesticides to protect our health. We need those speaking out about these issues to walk the walk.

Rather than trying to sell the public industry-friendly myths about the EPA, the MAHA Commission should actually fix the flawed pesticide approval process. It serves Trump’s pro-industry agenda instead of America’s children.

Further, EPA's review process is notoriously industry-friendly. The Trump administration, for example, just appointed a former pro-pesticide lobbyist Kyle Kunkler, to one of the top positions regulating pesticides at the EPA.

If the EPA’s review process was “robust,” the use of cancer-linked pesticides wouldn’t be increasing in the US and we wouldn’t still be using 85 toxic pesticides that are banned in other countries.

One of the most outrageous elements is a goal to “ensure that the public has awareness and confidence in EPA's robust pesticide review procedures.”

This is like committing to convince the public that the sky is green. It’s committing public dollars to a corporate cover-up campaign

In May, the MAHA Commission correctly identified exposure to pesticides and other toxic chemicals as one driver of the childhood chronic disease epidemic.

Their new report outlines their plans to tackle these pesticides — but it calls for no real change.

The US currently uses over a billion pounds of pesticides annually on our crops, about one-third of which is chemicals that have been banned in other countries

Many have been linked to serious health problems from cancer to infertility to birth defects.

The Pesticide Industry’s Fingerprints Are All Over the MAHA Commission’s Strategy Report | Common Dreams Instead of delivering real change, the strategy appears to be just another example of the Trump administration putting the financial interests of polluting industries above people’s health.

When it comes to pesticides, the Trump administration’s MAHA Commission has a serious problem.

The Commission’s newly released strategy for addressing childhood chronic disease is better for the pesticide industry than for people.

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