PROTECTING ACCESS TO ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION

RTKnet: Action Alerts

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!

Sign Up: Webinar on Communications Strategies to Change Chemical Policy (Reproductive Health Technologies Project)

The Reproductive Health Technologies Project will conduct a webinar to discuss ways to communicate the health risks of toxics and move individuals and organizations from awareness to activism.

(22 Oct 2009)

TAKE ACTION – Tell Congress to Force Disclosure of Toxic Drilling Chemicals

A controversial natural gas drilling technique is suspected of contaminating drinking water across the country, but more research cannot be done because the drilling companies won't disclose what toxic chemicals they are pumping into the ground. Congress is now considering legislation that would force drillers to disclose what chemicals they are using, but it needs our support against Big Oil and Gas.

(17 Sep 2009)

EPA Asking the Public to Help Set Enforcement Priorities (OMB Watch)

The EPA is collecting ideas from the public on what its enforcement and compliance priorities should be for the next three years (FY 2011-2013). These priorities address the most pressing environmental problems. The public may comment on an online forum on the EPA's blog until Sept. 30.

(17 Sep 2009)

TAKE ACTION – Tell Congress to Force Disclosure of Toxic Drilling Chemicals

Tell your members of Congress that you want disclosure of chemicals threatening drinking water.

(05 Aug 2009)

Tell Household Cleaner Manufacturers to Come Clean on Chemical Ingredients (Earthjustice)

Procter & Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive, Church and Dwight, and Reckitt-Benckiser are refusing to follow a law requiring them to disclose the chemical ingredients in their products and the health risks they pose.

We need your help to get them to come clean.

Take action today!

(07 May 2009)