WILDALERT: Drilling Project Threatens the Wyoming Range

The Wyoming Range is a hidden gem, but an oil and gas company has discovered it and is seeking permission to drill 136 gas wells in one of the largest roadless areas of Wyoming's namesake mountain range.

An industrial gas field in the Wyoming Range would displace crucial habitat for sensitive species, degrade migration corridors for big game travelling within the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, and disrupt an increasingly important recreation-based economy in Wyoming. Citizens have spoken up before and now we need you to do it again: The Wyoming Range is just too special to drill.

Click here to help protect the Wyoming Range from drilling.

A large natural gas field in the Bridger-Teton National Forest, home of the Wyoming Range, is simply a bad idea and would turn the area over to a single industrial use.

Public comments on this drilling proposal are being accepted until February 7. Please urge the Forest Service to protect the Wyoming Range. Click here to take quick, effective action.

Sincerely,
Kathy Kilmer
The Wilderness Society

Wonderful Green Info

Environment: Easy to Be Green

By Joan Raymond
Newsweek

Jan. 8, 2007 issue - You don't have to ditch leather or sell your car to help the environment. We've gathered 10 simple tips for living greener in 2007. Hey, it's a lot easier than losing those 15 pounds.


1. Feed the Bees Pesticides, pollution and habitat destruction are taking a toll on the birds and insects that pollinate about 80 percent of the world's food supply (or about one out of every three bites of food we eat), says Rose Getch of the National Gardening Association. To lend a helping hand, plant a pollinator garden. Yellow, blue and purple flowers will attract bees, while red and orange will attract hummingbirds. For more information, go to kidsgardening.com.

2. Clean Up, Naturally Household chemicals contribute to both in-door and outdoor pollution. This year, use more natural cleaners like the Greening the Cleaning line at imusranchfoods.com. Or make your own using vinegar, baking soda and lemon juice. For some great tips on green cleaning, go to eartheasy.com.

3. Ditch Your Junk Not only is junk mail annoying, it kills trees. Do yourself—and the forests—a favor by getting off the mailing lists of companies you don't support. You can contact the firms yourself, or check out subscription services like greendimes.com or 41pounds.org that promise to lighten your junk-mail load. For more information: thegreenguide.com.

4. Air Your Laundry Make like Grandma and line-dry your clothes once in a while. It not only saves money, but also decreases your yearly carbon- dioxide emissions. Likewise, run your washer on cold whenever possible—and use it only when it's full.

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DIRTY COAL ON THE RISE IN TEXAS

With all of the attention on the recent elections, you may have missed a story with serious implications for the future of our planet.

In Texas, the TXU Corporation plans to spend $10 billion to build 11 new dirty coal-fired power plants that will guarantee huge amounts of global warming emissions for decades to come. The company announced it is also considering major coal plant projects in the Northeast and Midwest. According to a recent New York Times article, opposition groups say "that TXU is embarking on its immense construction campaign without taking account of its role in an emerging environmental catastrophe." And the state of Texas is already the number one carbon emitter in the country. It appears that Governor Rick Perry is fast-tracking the permit process for TXU so that the plants can be built before federal laws will hopefully be put in place.

A growing number of Texas mayors are opposing the TXU proposal through the Texas Cities for Clean Air Coalition, including the mayors of Houston, Dallas, El Paso, Fort Worth, and over a dozen other cities statewide from both political parties. Conservative Republican Robert Cluck, the mayor of Arlington, is leading the charge on global warming in Texas -- concerned for the environmental impact but as a medical doctor also for the public health impacts of dirty coal.

SPREAD THE WORD: "AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH" AVAILABLE NOW!

Movie critic Roger Ebert said, "In 39 years, I have never written these words in a movie review, but here they are: You owe it to yourself to see this film." Buy two copies of "An Inconvenient Truth" and donate one to a school. BUY DVD NOW

TAKE ACTION IN SCHOOLS

Teachers and Students: To learn more ways to take action at your school, visit the new Classroom section of StopGlobalWarming.org

TELL A FRIEND

By marching, you have taken the first step to be part of the movement to stop global warming. We are now over 517,000 marchers strong. The best way to grow the movement to stop global warming is to urge your friends and family to join the March too. CLICK HERE to invite friends to join the March.

Keep Marching!

Laurie David
Founder
StopGlobalWarming.org