RTKnet: Action Alerts

PROTECTING ACCESS TO ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION

This section of the RTK Net is where you will find opportunities to make your voice heard on a variety of right-to-know issues. Please check in again later to see where you can influence specific policies that impact public health and the environment. Or, let us know about an issue!

Let Us Know About An Issue!

If there is a campaign to promote environmental information and access, and you believe we should know more about it, please send us a comment.

(04 Jun 2008)

TAKE ACTION - Tell Congress to Support Research on Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals (The Endocrine Disruption Exchange)

A growing pandemic of endocrine-related disorders, such as ADHD, Parkinsons, Alzheimers, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, obesity, early puberty, infertility and other reproductive disorders, and childhood and adult cancers, is seriously undermining the health and wealth of our nation. TAKE ACTION and demand greater research to identify endocrine disrupting chemicals and determine their safety.

(03 Aug 2010)

TAKE ACTION: Tell Congress to Label Genetically Modified Foods! (Grassroots Network)

The Genetically Engineered Food Right to Know Act (HR 5577) calls for the labeling of genetically engineered food, which may negatively impact health. Potential risks of consuming genetically engineered food include birth defects, sterility, and "horizontal gene transfer," among other adverse effects. Contact your representative here, and defend your right to know!

(22 Jul 2010)

TAKE ACTION - Tell Your Representatives To Support the FRAC Act (Food & Water Watch)

Companies that are threatening our drinking water with hydraulic fracturing can't be held accountable under the Safe Drinking Water Act, and they don't have to disclose the 596 chemicals that they are injecting into the ground. Ask your representative to close the loophole and require companies to disclose the chemicals they are using by passing the FRAC Act.

(15 Jul 2010)

Last Week to Comment On Expansion Of TRI

The EPA has proposed adding 16 carcinogens to the list of Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) chemicals. Public comments on this proposal are due by Monday, June 7, 2010. Comments may be submitted electronically here.

(02 Jun 2010)

Spreading the Word on the Oil Spill (Federal Computer Week)

"Federal agencies are employing their Web sites and social media tools to release emergency response and health information about the leak from BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig off the coast of New Orleans." Tools include an EPA webpage, a NOAA website, a Facebook page, and Twitter.

(05 May 2010)

TAKE ACTION - Support Food Labeling of GMOs (Food Democracy Now)

Stand up for your right to know what's in your food and stop a sneak attack on GMO labeling. Please sign this letter to FDA and USDA.

(27 Apr 2010)

What Do YOU Want? (OMB Watch)

We’d like to hear your thoughts and priorities regarding improved access to environmental information. Please take this brief survey and let us know what is most important to YOU. You can access the survey at http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22AGT9V3K2B.

(22 Apr 2010)

Take Action on Toxic Substances Control Act Reform (Earthjustice)

On April 15, Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) and Reps. Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Bobby Rush (D-IL) introduced the Safe Chemicals Act of 2010. The bill would reform the current Toxic Substances Control Act, which is plagued by flaws and loopholes. The Safe Chemicals Act of 2010 would make several crucial improvements related to our environmental right-to-know, including requiring chemical companies to develop and make publicly available basic health and safety information for all chemicals and expediting safety determinations on several notorious chemicals, such as formaldehyde, vinyl chloride, and flame retardants. Please join our colleagues at Earthjustice and Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families in support of the Safe Chemicals Act of 2010!

(16 Apr 2010)

TAKE ACTION - Ask EPA to support real toxics reform! (Safer Chemicals Healthy Families)

Legislation is now being drafted in Congress to reform TSCA. It is critical that EPA support the strongest version of this legislation, one that includes taking swift action on chemicals we already know to be dangerous. We need you to take action today, to help put EPA on the right path for protecting kids and families. Let your voice be heard!

(06 Apr 2010)