the Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the US! its watershed spans NY, PA, WV, MD, DE, VA, and DC!!! this travesty leeched toxic chemicals into the food, water and land for millions of Americans and the US GOVT HID IT FROM US FOR MONTHS!!!!!!
All nine Oceti Sakowin (Sioux) tribal nations have joined together to file a lawsuit to stop destructive drilling at sacred Pe'Sla in the Black Hills. #Landback#BlackHillsBack
TWEEPS: Florida voters are being cut out completely as DeSantis pushes new maps designed to lock in power without a public vote. CA and VA trusted their voters. Florida won’t.
I need 1,000 fast RTs and replies using #StopIllegalFloridaMaps
Please and thank you! 🙏💪
One species of turtle in Florida has over 350 other species dependent on it.
Gopher tortoises dig burrows up to 40 feet long and 10 feet deep. The burrows maintain stable temperature and humidity year-round, survive wildfires from above, and flood only partially during storms.
They are refuges, and more than 350 species use them.
Eastern indigo snakes, gopher frogs, burrowing owls, Florida mice, dozens of snake species, hundreds of invertebrates.
Some species exist only because gopher tortoises exist. The Florida mouse can't make its own burrow and must attach to a tortoise's.
The gopher tortoise has been doing this work for 60 million years.
Development, road mortality, and fire suppression have pushed the species to threatened status. Every subdivision built in Florida sandhills paves over burrows that were housing hundreds of other animals each.
Save a gopher tortoise and you save an entire underground ecosystem.
Buried at the bottom of the trash heap that is the news...
Donald Trump's EPA greenlit more toxic coal ash dumping, removing Obama and Biden-era protections.
You know...
The stuff that's full of arsenic, lead, and mercury that poisons water and causes cancers and other illnesses in low-income communities.
We should be talking about that more.
@choi_ranee06@translatingTXT The internet exists. He could literally use any search engine. ChatGPT is not a search engine. It’s not a good source for accurate information. And it’s proven to cause cognitive decline in people that use it. You can’t pick and choose which parts of ai are bad. It’s all bad.
President Trump's proposed budget sets the stage for the killing of tens of thousands of wild horses and burros or selling them to “kill buyers” for slaughter. Congress stopped this last year, and we are urging lawmakers once again to protect these amazing animals.
https://t.co/w7epX3vzP6
our past present and future is allowing a foreign-owned company conduct what is scientifically one of the most toxic forms of mining in the area where 20% of all freshwater in the US National Forest System is????? eat shit and get wrecked
Take a good look folks.
These are the Minnesota boundary waters. Every Republican senator voted to allow a Chilean billionaire to mine it. The minerals will go to China.
This truly enrages me.
It should you as well.
Fuck, and I mean fuck…
The @GOP 🖕
Remember this at the ballot box: Republicans voted to allow copper sulfide mining - which has NEVER not polluted - to be built in the headwaters flowing directly into the BWCA. Republicans just sold out our pristine public lands & future generations for Chilean billionaires.
Fort Meade, Florida resident says hundreds showed up to their meeting to oppose a Data Center
The town is already on water restriction, they can’t wash their cars, they can’t water their plants, because of toxic water crisis
Their City Commission voted unanimously to approve the data center anyway
“On today's episode of Taxation without representation in the small little rural town of Fort Meade, Florida, central Florida, one of the very few small towns we have left in Florida, the city council had a meeting last night. Hundreds of people showed up against the data center that's wanting to be placed in this tiny, small, rural town. Everyone spoke against it. Literally, none of the locals want it
— Mind you, the area is already toxic from mosaic and the phosphate mine — everyone is on a water restriction right now. We can't water our grass, we can't wash our cars, but we're gonna put a data center that nobody asks for
— Every single one of those city council members need to be recalled right now. It's time to fight back. It's enough. This sh*t has gotten outta hand”
They voted yes, unanimously 5-0.
The Fort Meade City Commission approved a 20-year development agreement with the developer for a massive hyperscale AI data center project.
The vote occurred after a packed meeting with hundreds of residents, standing room only, who overwhelmingly spoke against it during public comment
We are not governed, we are ruled
🚨Republicans just voted 50-49 to hand the Boundary Waters to a foreign mining company that will pollute its headwaters & ship every last mineral to China.
Now it goes to Trump's desk, who has financial ties to the billionaire behind the deal. They're not even pretending anymore.
The Emperor penguin and Antarctic fur seal are now endangered due to climate change, according to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
(https://t.co/XfZHBbQxZl)
He just admitted that his administration is committing crimes and that they’ll all get away with it. In a normal, functioning country, congress would impeach and remove him before that happens.