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Here is a sampling of the pictures that I took in Ellicott City. Note the sheet plastic and straw barrier, which was apparently built to protect the river from coal contamination. Several of the coal cars tipped over on the bridge, and dumped out their contents. Hopefully I can post more of the pictures later.

I love the bicycle ride to from Baltimore City to Ellicott City, and will likely be visiting again soon. This site is very close to Patapsco State Park, which is a great place for bike riding.

Regards,
proclus
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The plastic you see and use every day is killing endangered birds, sea turtles and seals by the hundreds of thousands. Every year animals get tangled up in plastic, or eat it, with fatal consequences.

Please sign our petition asking the Environmental Protection Agency to curb plastic pollution on our beaches and in our oceans.

Plastic makes up 60 percent to 80 percent of ocean debris; there are 3 million tons of it in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The same durability we value in plastic makes it a persistent pollutant.

Plastic doesn't belong in our oceans; it doesn't belong in the diet of baby sea birds like this Laysan albatross chick; and it doesn't belong wrapped around endangered seals. That's why we're asking the federal government to establish water-quality criteria for plastic pollution.

Please take action to join us in asking the EPA to get plastic out of our ocean ecosystems.

Take action by using this Web address: http://action.biologicaldiversity.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY...

I have some photos of the clean up, near the river in Ellicott City. Many coal cars tipped over. Hopefully, I will get a chance to put them in the blog soon.

Hi,

The Republican and Democratic Parties control the presidential debates and exclude third party candidates.  This is anti-thetical to democracy.  We petition the Commission on Presidential Debates to allow Jill Stein to participate in all of the presidential debates this year.

That's why I signed a petition to Commission on Presidential Debates, which says:

"Allow Green Party Presidential Candidate, Jill Stein, to participate in all of the presidential debates."

Will you sign this petition? Click here:

http://signon.org/sign/allow-jill-stein-to-particip?source=s.em.cp&r_by=985589

Thanks!

 

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At this very moment, the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP)--a trade agreement that could affect the health and welfare of billions of people worldwide--is being negotiated behind closed doors. While 600 corporate lobbyists have access to the text, the press, the public, and even members of the US Congress are being kept in the dark.

But we don't have to stand meekly by as corporate cronies decide our futures. Concerned citizens from around the world are pooling together their resources as a reward to WikiLeaks if it makes the negotiating text of the TPP public. Our pledge, as individuals, is to donate this money to WikiLeaks should it leak the document we seek.

I just helped free the TPP by pledging to donate to WikiLeaks should it leak the TPP text to the public. Join me!

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Thanks!