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Help Salmon Today Pacific Northwest wild salmon are a national treasure, and a vital economic resource for rural communities across the Pacific coast. Unfortunately, four costly and out-dated dams on the Snake River are wasting taxpayer dollars and driving wild salmon towards extinction.
A federal judge recently ruled that the Bush Administration's salmon plan for the Columbia & Snake Rivers is illegal - threatening already-endangered salmon with extinction. Across the Pacific coast, salmon are critically important to a healthy environment and healthy economy - fishing and recreation businesses rely on abundant salmon runs and good habitat. Please help advocate for real salmon recovery! With no legal plan in place, Congressional leadership is needed! Ask your Representative to co-sponsor the Salmon Planning Act- HR 1615!

Pacific Salmon Are in Serious Trouble And Need Our Help Please join more than 50 (so far) chefs, restauranteurs, and others in the culinary trade - add your name to the "Chef's 'Salmon Letter' to the United States Congress" today! (the Letter will be delivered to Congress later this spring.) Please join more than 50 (so far) chefs, restauranteurs, and others in the culinary trade - add your name to the "Chef's 'Salmon Letter' to the United States Congress" today! (the Letter will be delivered to Congress later this spring.)

Appetite for a Change: A campaign to reduce children's exposure to pesticides, toxins, and junk foods. Children need better protection from toxic chemical exposure while at school. According to the National Academy of Sciences report, Pesticides in the Diets of Infants and Children, children are among the least protected population group when it comes to pesticide exposure. The report finds that EPA generally lacks data on children necessary to protect them. Due to their small size, greater intake of air and food relative to body weight, developing organ systems and other unique characteristics, children are at higher risk than adults to pesticide exposure. Thirty-one states have taken some action to step in and provide protective action to address pesticide use in, around or near their schools. These include a mixture of pesticide restrictions and parental notification and posting of signs before certain pesticides are used. However, the state protection is uneven across the country and children in nineteen states are provided no protection at all.

Protect Our Kids' Health - Fight the American Childhood Obesity Crisis
Courtesy of Trust for America’s Health
In the last 20 years, obesity rates have doubled in children and tripled in adolescents in the U.S. More than 9 million American children are either obese or overweight and at risk of developing serious chronic diseases like Type 2 diabetes, heart disease, stroke and certain cancers.
With the start of a new school year, it's time to get serious about the obesity epidemic in American children. Let's get the junk food out of schools and insist that all kids have a chance to participate in physical activity during the school day.
Limited federal programs and attempts at "quick fixes" to the growing obesity epidemic aren't working. Federal funding for chronic disease programs, including those related to obesity is only about $3 per American per year – less than most fast food meals. But combating America's immense fast food culture will take much more investment than this.
The government needs to fully fund sound, long-term policies that will produce significant, sustainable reductions in obesity rates.

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