Please take the time to write an email or letter to the Environmental Protection Agency by April 30
A new study has shown that the monarch population declined dramatically in just the past year. There are 16 million fewer monarchs than this time last year, and it's increasingly likely that they'll go extinct unless we do something.
Monarchs won't survive without milkweed; it's the main source of food for their caterpillars, and where they lay their eggs. Roundup kills milkweed, and in recent years, the amount of Roundup we're using in the United States has skyrocketed.
Just like bees, monarch butterflies are critical pollinators. Their loss would have an untold impact on thousands of plant species. Monsanto won't stop using Roundup on their own. That's why we need the EPA to ban this toxic pesticide.
Please take the time to write an email or letter to the Environmental Protection Agency by April 30, expressing your concern for the monarch butterfly and demanding that glyphosate be banned in the United States.
Send comments online to:
www.regulations.gov and search for this docket number: EPA-HQ-OPP-2009-0361.
Or, just click here to go directly to that docket and make your comments
Send snail mail comments to:
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
EPA Docket Center
Docket number: EPA-HQ-OPP-2009-0361
Mail Code 28221T
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20460
(Information for this alert was provided by Environmental-Action.org)
"The ultimate test of man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard."
Gaylord Nelson, former governor of Wisconsin, founder of Earth Day