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Seldom  does a day goes by that we don't hear in the news of the latest chemical or oil spill or some other equally hazardous disaster that man has inflicted on the environment.

The  hazardous industrial waste and pollution from  thousands of  oil, chemical,  plastics, pharmacuedical and otherhigh polluting companies and the millions upon millions of fossil fuel burning combustion engine automobiles are destroying our environment.  Although these impacts seldom  get the attention they deserve in the mainstream corporate controlled news media,  they have extremely hazardous consequences to the entire ecosystem and to human health.

 What you don't know can not only hurt you,  it can kill you.

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 Below is a list of  hazards that have already been dumped on our environment

TEXACO FINED FOR CLEAN AIR VIOLATIONS ON NAVAJO NATION

OIL SPILL CONTAMINATES ECUADORIAN AMAZON

Park Service Approves Oil Drilling in Florida Preserve
WASHINGTON, DC, January 17, 2002 (ENS) -
The National Park Service has given its initial approval to a proposal to drill thousands of holes and detonate thousands of underground explosions in a search for oil beneath Big Cypress National Preserve in Florida. Environmental groups warn the proposal could harm the 30 rare and protected species which find refuge in the preserve's swamps and forests.

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    Signs of Global Warming     

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Environmental-Links

National Wildlife Federation       Natural Resources Defense Council       eNature    Friends of the Earth  
Green Cross International        Mercury Policy Project         Environmental Law Center

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News Alert from Robert Redford

Americans voted for many things this past Election Day, but one thing
we did not vote for was a sweeping attack on our environment. Yet
President Bush is already acting as if we did.

If you don't have time to read my letter, then please go straight to
the BioGems website at http://www.savebiogems.org/takeaction.asp and
send messages to your U.S. senators and representative telling them
to stand up in defense of our environment.

Barely two weeks after the election, the Bush administration repaid
big corporate campaign contributors with a massive new loophole in
the Clean Air Act that will allow them to dramatically increase air
pollution and harm the health of millions of Americans.

Days later, it was the timber industry's turn to cash in. On
Thanksgiving eve, the administration proposed new rules that would
allow it to put all 155 national forests on the chopping block for
logging and other commercial activities without having to take public
input or study the devastating impacts on wildlife.

It's no accident these special interest handouts were announced after
Election Day. They are a radical departure from the values of
conservation that most Americans hold dear.

But the worst is yet to come. The White House has signaled clearly
that the sacrifice of our clean air and national forests is only the
leading edge of a much broader attack that will come early this year.
It will be a determined and systematic effort to dismantle our
nation's entire framework of environmental protection.

Last year, the U.S. Senate was the firewall that saved us from
President Bush's most destructive raids on the environment. Not any
more. Key Senate committees in the new Congress will be chaired by
stalwart allies of polluting industries who are flat-out hostile to
our environmental laws.

Industry lobbyists are already circling, ready to plunder the public
treasures they have coveted for so long: the Arctic National Wildlife
Refuge, the Alaskan rainforest, the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem,
and many more of our last wild places.

No one voted for these environmental disasters on Election Day, but
they will come to pass if we don't unite right now to prevent them.

The president's campaign to undermine our environmental laws could be
derailed instantly if millions of Americans would hold Congress
accountable for its upcoming votes. The fate of our natural heritage
will be determined by a handful of moderates, Democrat and
Republican. Senators on both sides of the aisle won close races this
past Election Day by promising to protect the environment. It's time
to make them keep their word.

Please go to the BioGems website at
http://www.savebiogems.org/takeaction.asp and send electronic
messages directly to your U.S. senators and representative. Tell them
to defend 30 years of bipartisan environmental progress by putting a
stop to the Bush administration's assaults.

And if you want to do even more for the environment, please forward
this message to as many people as you can. Remember, the White House
can continue this sweeping attack on our environment only if
Americans remain silent. Thank you for speaking out.

Sincerely,

Robert Redford
Board of Trustees
Natural Resources Defense Council