Earlier this year the House of Representatives introduced the Toxic Chemicals Safety Act, which will require companies to prove that chemicals are safe before they hit the market.
To keep this bill moving, we need your help to recruit co-sponsors. Since elected officials listen to their constituents, we need you to email your Representative today telling them to co-sponsor.
Click here to ask your US Representative to co-sponsor the Toxic Chemicals Safety Act, H.R. 5820.
Don’t miss this excellent “mockumentary” that explores the life cycle of a plastic bag.
(From www.grist.org) ”Today we explore the cycle of life of this curious creature, the plastic bag, on its migration to its home, the Pacific Ocean,” narrates the deep tones of Jeremy Irons (who lent his voice to Scar in The Lion King, of course).
Despite dangers lurking around every corner — Park Services employees, teacup Yorkies, tree branches, hungry dolphins — the persistent plastic bag finally takes its place in the marine millings of the great plastic herd known as the Pacific Garbage Patch.
The cinematic jest is the work of environmental nonprofit, Heal the Bay, in its efforts to keep the non-native plastic bag from invading Pacific waters. It’s part of a campaign in support of a bill to ban the bags from California retailers, their primary vector for invading the salty seas.
Watch the awe-inspiring footage captured of this persistent creature here.
