In case you missed it in all the hubub around the state budget, the Catskills Region received $7.35m in funding!!!  These resources will go to fight invasive species, improve trails and outdoor recreation, protect our vibrant forests, and support our communities.  Our thanks goes out to Governor Cuomo, the New York State Senate and Assembly, and to all of you--our work together made this possible.

Event Details: Science March & Peoples Climate March

Our environment and communities are being threatened daily.  In Washington, D.C. we have science deniers making policy and budgetary decisions that will impact all of us for generations.  They’re working on handing huge giveaways to the world’s biggest polluters, and we’re pushing back.  This month, there are two opportunities to hit the streets and show the world what really makes America great.

Today’s a hard day. Our president just released an executive order that puts our lives at risk so that his cronies in the fossil fuel industry can make another buck—he’s giving away our clean air, clean water, and hard fought climate change regulations for profit.

But we have an opportunity to fight climate change here at home. With one phone call, you can make a difference—call Governor Cuomo and tell him to keep fighting back against President Trump’s lunacy by keeping climate programs and funding in the New York State budget (1-518-474-8390).  

Today the oil and gas industry is trying to run roughshod across the U.S., disregarding our health and environment, the sovereign rights of Indigenous nations, farmers' interests, and the voices of millions of Americans who care about our climate. We are coming to you with a call to action, both on a national fight, and one here at home. 

WHAT: We Stand United - NYC Pre-Inauguration Rally
WHEN: Thursday, January 19, 2017 @ 6:00 pm
WHERE: Trump International Hotel & Tower (Corner of Central Park West and West 61st Street)

Catskill Mountainkeeper is a sponsor of an upcoming rally at Trump Tower. Please join us, along with Catskill Mountainkeeper board member Mark Ruffalo, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, Rev. Al Sharpton, Michael Moore, Rosie Perez, Shailene Woodley, Alec Baldwin, and advocates from community organizations and thousands of New Yorkers for an important event in New York City the night before Trump's Inauguration!

Please take a minute to click on our 10^th Anniversary Stakeholder Report and take a look at all of the work and victories that our activist supporters made possible over the past decade. 

As 2016 comes to a close on this last day of the year, Catskill Mountainkeeper is already gearing up to protect our wild Catskills and empower communities in 2017. Unfortunately, we expect the new pro-Big Oil and Gas administration in Washington, DC to present huge challenges to our efforts. Give now!

President-elect Donald Trump announced he will appoint Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to head the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA). Let’s be clear: Scott Pruitt has been a bitter opponent of the USEPA. Trump may as well have put a heroin dealer in charge of the Drug Enforcement Agency. For Catskill Mountainkeeper, our supporters, and everyone who breathes air or drinks water, this is a disastrous decision and we need your support now more than ever.

Our good friends at Hunt Country Vineyards in New York’s Finger Lakes region are an outstanding example of how a successful business can be run in a sustainable way. And, through December 31^st, Hunt Country is generously donating 10% of the sales from its Wine Provisions to Catskill Mountainkeeper.

Call President Obama 1-202-456-1414 now and ask him to direct the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to revoke the permits under ‘Nationwide Permit 12,' to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline once and for all, and to immediately halt the violent police activity against peaceful water protectors.