US citizens: call on the EPA to protect the rusty patched bumblebee (and many other species) from the pesticide cyantraniliprole.

US citizens: call on Congress not to extend the corrupter's tax cuts for the wealthy. The Capitol Switchboard numbers are +1-202-224-3121, +1-888-818-6641 and +1-888-355-3588.

If you phone, please spread the word!

Tories have converted the UK's planned "green day" at last minute into a fossil fuel bonanza. *Dirty money powers the [Tory] government.*

*[New] Quality standards [proposed] to hold carbon offsetting industry to account.*

Both the sellers of offsets and the buyers have a monetary interest in undermining the goal, and they have found plenty of ways to do so. This initiative is meant to prevent that, but they will keep trying, and I think they will find new ways to undermine it.

That is why I advocate greenhouse emission taxes rather than a marketfor trading quotas.

Idaho Republicans plan to make it a felony to "procure an abortion"for a minor.

This would clearly be wrong and harmful. Just how much harm it will do, I am not sure; it depends on precisely what it means to "procure an abortion", which is not clear here.