The UK government quashed torture lawsuits by saying that admitting the facts would embarrass the US. Then it began lobbying the CIA to stop the US Senate from acknowledging the torture, because if it did, that would pull the rug out from under the UK's self-serving argument.

US citizens: call on state governors to stop transferring prisoners to private prisons out of state.

US citizens: call on the SEC to adopt the rule to make publicly traded corporations declare political spending.

US citizens: call on the EPA to make power plant CO₂ rules tighter.

The smallest porpoise species, found in the Sea of California, is facing extinction due to gill netting.