The Raising Voices environmental committee wishes you a Happy New Year with a challenge: Make a resolution to protect our planet. Resolve to reduce your plastic consumption by 25%. Suggestions to help you succeed: Buy reusable, washable fruit and vegetable bags. Amazon sells them for a very reasonable amount. Get …
Join Raising Voices in celebrating Earth Day (April 22 ) everyday! How can you make an impact? Try one tip a day or week and keep at it. You can make a difference! Download the Tip-A-Day Calendar (PDF) April 2019 “If many little people, in many little places do many …
Our Activist Profile series highlights RaisingVoicesUSA members who have found their path to civic engagement by raising their voice for the issues they’re most passionate about. Want to be featured? Contact us at info@raisingvoicesusa.org to learn more. Issue/Cause: Environment What was your first experience as an activist and what brought …
A fee-for-check-out-bags bill was proposed by Nassau County Legislator, Debra Mule (D). It is very similar to the Suffolk County, Long Beach and Sea Cliff bills and is a critical step for our county in controlling plastic pollution and limiting our impact on the environment. The Presiding Officer of the …
from The New York Times by Livia Albeck-Ripka and Kendra Pierre-Louis A huge oil spill. A river catching fire. Lakes so polluted they were too dangerous for fishing or swimming. Air so thick with smog it was impossible to see the horizon. That was the environmental state of the nation 50 years …
“If only the rocks could talk. If only the sandstones could sing, imagine the stories they’d tell, of dinosaurs, mammoth hunters and the “ancient ones” known as the Anasazi. All roamed southern Utah over the eons, long before Native Americans struggled to hold their land against Mormon settlers, modern life …
From THE NEW YORK TIMES
By NADJA POPOVICH and LIVIA ALBECK-RIPKA OCT. 5, 2017
Since taking office in January, President Trump has made eliminating federal regulations a priority. His administration — with help from Republicans in Congress — has often targeted environmental rules it sees as overly burdensome to the fossil fuel industry, including major Obama-era policies aimed at fighting climate change.
To date, the the Trump administration has sought to reverse nearly 50 environmental rules, according to an analysis by The New York Times.
