Obama

Your weekly news roundup on everything environment

In this weeks issue: 

Obama Calls Taxbreaks for Big Oil "Outrageous" and "Inexcusable"

Ohio Regulators: Fracking Waste Tied to Earthquakes

This Land is Our Land

"I was working at the Fukushima plant when the earthquake hit. I thought we'd seen the worst. Then came the tsunami."

It's been one year since a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami, ravaged the northeast coast of Japan and caused a catastrophic meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Over 19,000 were reported missing or dead from that one fateful day alone, yet the true number of lives lost from exposure to radiation, still remains to be seen. 

One year after Fukushima, there are dozens of nuclear plants just like it operating in the U.S. But President Obama and too many members of Congress are still touting nuclear as 'safe' and 'clean'. It's not - it's a disaster waiting to happen that could impact up to 50 Million Americans. 

Check out the map to see if you live in a nuclear danger zone,  and then tell Congress and President Obama to both shut down existing nuke plants and to stop approving new ones.

 
Over the last few weeks, thousands of Environmental Action members have signed on to our call to END $41 billion in tax breaks and subidies to Big Oil and thier friends. Today, the President made it official - he's in.

Congratulations! President Obama has listened to your call to reject the Keystone XL pipeline, which was planned to run from Canada's oil sands all the way to refineries in Texas.

The sticking point for the Obama administration was the route through Nebraska's Sandhills, an ecologically sensitive region. On Wednesday, the president announced that in rejecting the pipeline application, he is leaving the door open for the Canadian company to reapply using a different route.