I am a Sierra Club member who sees that this reclassification of National Monuments and public lands will do irreparable harm to our state, both now and in the future. As someone who spends most of my vacations in these locations, I am alarmed at the possibility that they will be destroyed by corporate development.

The Trump Administration is considering pulling the United States out of the Paris Agreement, currently the world’s best chance at slowing climate change. The Paris Agreement is an agreement dealing with greenhouse gases emissions mitigation, adaptation and finance starting in the year 2020. The language of the agreement was negotiated by representatives of 195 countries at the 21st Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC in Paris and adopted by consensus. Climate change may be the most important challenge humanity has ever faced. The Paris Agreement -- ratified last year -- stands as an unprecedented global pact among 196 nations to take steps to prevent catastrophic climate change and ensure a cleaner, safer planet for future generations. U.S. participation in the agreement deserves our support more than ever to ensure it remains strong. The Obama administration had promised the world that the United States would reduce its emissions by 26 to 28 percent below its 2005 levels by the year 2025. If the United States pulls out it will effectively be the end of the agreement.

Everyone is affected by climate change and the resulting damage to environment, health and economic prosperity.

The company behind Keystone XL wants to build a fracked-gas pipeline through Western Maryland. If built, the Eastern Panhandle Expansion project would transport fracked gas from Pennsylvania to West Virginia, crossing through Maryland and under the Potomac River and the C&O Canal along the way. More than 6 million people get their drinking water from the Potomac River, and this pipeline project would jeopardize the quality of the water they depend on. Governor Hogan recently signed the statewide ban on fracking into law, and now he has the chance to protect the drinking water for millions of Marylanders again by denying the Clean Water Act certification that is required for this pipeline to move forward. Urge him to deny the Eastern Panhandle Expansion project's 401 Water Quality Certificate.

President Trump wants to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement. We ask you to join with others States concerned with protecting our Earth and form a States United of America that will join the agreement and agree to meet the goals of the accord.

Bret Stephens is a bigot and climate-science denier. He has a Constitutional right to share his attacks on Muslims, women, climate scientists. However, he doesn't deserve the payment and prestige of the New York Times. Stephens' first column, "Climate of Complete Certainty," was riddled with misleading statements and factual missteps. Stephens' work is in service of a campaign of deceit devised by ExxonMobil and other members of the fossil-fuel industry—which has been well reported by the Times. For years, the Times ran misleading and false ads by ExxonMobil attacking climate science on its opinion pages. Thankfully, that past error has since been corrected. Since the election of Donald Trump, the Times has been running an ad campaign claiming the paper's leadership believes "The Truth Is More Important Than Ever." It is time for the Times to remain consistent with its professed respect for the truth, reverse its hiring error and let Bret Stephens go.

Preserve the beauty and integrity of our Historic Neighborhood. The sub station could potentially expose our community to health hazards, destroy the water supply, create noise pollution and definitely decrease the property values.

Hydro-Québec, Canada’s mega power company, wants to build the “Northern Pass” – 1,100 power towers across 180 miles of New Hampshire’s forest and farmland. These gigantic towers would cut through the heart of the White Mountain National Forest and on to power New England.

Turning a blind eye to the planned Federal destruction of wetlands, historic sites, homes, and communities in spite of the fact that there have been no environmental impact studies or public input is not acceptable. The case in point is the Branford to Guilford Quad track expansion proposed by the Federal Railroad Administration. The FRA’s Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) has no environmental studies specific to the new track planned between Branford and Guilford. Equally outrageous is the fact that the FRA failed to inform the “at risk” communities of their intentions. In addition, there is no benefit to the people of New Haven, Branford, or Guilford (or anyone else in Connecticut for that matter). In the entire thousand plus page report, only twenty-nine words were devoted to this 150 to 300 foot wide eight mile long easement. None of those words referenced an environmental study specific to the new track proposed. Furthermore, the exact location of the new track was not provided. This is just another example of a government “Bridge to Nowhere.” This portion needs to be removed from the FRA’s plans.

The moratorium on fracking in the Delaware River Basin may be at risk! We know that the Delaware River Basin Commission has been discussing fracking regulations that, if approved, would lift the moratorium on fracking in the Basin. We're not about to let the DRBC expose the communities and natural resources in the Delaware River Basin to fracking's devastation, nor will we allow the Commission to put at risk the drinking water supply of 17 million people! Your signature will send a message to the DRBC commissioners and executive staff that it's time to ban fracking outright!

>Human activity is fueling accelerating global warming: Global temperature rise is already causing dangerous shifts in weather and climate, in the form of more frequent and severe heat waves, droughts, storms, heavier precipitation, river flooding, sea level rise, accelerated species extinction and loss of land available for growing food. Scientist’s agree that the only way to leave a habitable planet to our children and grandchildren is to dramatically curb our emissions by KEEPING THE MAJORITY OF THE REMAINING FOSSIL FUELS IN THE GROUND. >The impacts of climate change are already local: San Leandro is already experiencing the impact of global warming. The long-awaited Marina Development Plan is once again delayed, this time due to changes that must be made in order to protect the buildings against anticipated sea level rise. This will have major financial impacts. This past winter’s storms and heavy rains wrecked havoc on our city’s roads and storm water drain system. In nearby Pleasanton, heavy rains caused torrential flows on the Arroyo De La Laguna Creek and eroded 30 feet of three families' backyards . Their homes are now just a few feet away from falling into the creek. San Jose’s reservoir overflowed into the creek that runs through town, flooding 36,000 homes and requiring emergency evacuations by boat of thousands of residents. San Jose officials state the damage total $73 million. How prepared is our city for similar impacts? >Local governments must drive solutions to protect their communities: The impacts of climate change are felt at the local level. With expected damage on the rise everywhere, it is unlikely we would be able to depend on future financial assistance from our state or federal government. Collectively, local governments are driving solutions to protect their communities with comprehensive emissions reduction and adaptation strategies. San Leandro has already invested significant resources toward our goal of “reducing our carbon emissions by 25% below 2005 levels by the year 2020.” (San Leandro’s 2009 Climate Action Plan). But for San Leandro’s Climate Action Plan to ultimately be successful, our city’s carbon reduction strategies must address ALL of our city's contributions to carbon emissions. Arguably, the significant financial holdings we have in banking institutions that finance pipeline development may negate the achievements we make toward our current Climate Action Plan goals. This is why our strategy must ALSO include defunding and divesting our city’s financial investments in institutions bankrolling ongoing fossil fuel extraction. Future generations of San Leandrans are depending on you. The following banks providing the bulk of the financing for the multiple oil and gas pipelines currently under construction in the US. We ask our city to avoid future financial relationships with any of these institutions: Wells Fargo Comerica Bank Bank of America U.S. Bank PNC Bank Barclays JP Morgan Chase UBS Goldman Sachs Deutsche Bank Compass Bank Morgan Stanley Origin Bank (formerly Community Trust) HSBC Bank Citibank (Citigroup) TD Securities BNP Paribas DNB Capital BBVA Securities SunTrust Sumitomo Mitsui Bank Credit Agricole ABN Amro Capital Intesa SanPaolo ING Bank Natixis BayernLB ICBC London Societe General Scotiabank Citizens Bank Credit Suisse DNB Capital/ASA Royal Bank of Canada The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Mizuho Bank Sources: https://www.epa.gov/climatechange https://climate.nasa.gov/ http://www.sanleandro.org/depts/pw/climate_action_plan.asp http://www.citylab.com/tech/2017/01/in-the-trump-era-all-climate-progress-will-be-local/513947/

I am a resident of Pawtucket and I want to see all sorts of conditions IMPROVED for the city I and my neighbors live in, not degraded by this high impact asphalt plant. There is no reason to place such a plant in this or any such urban area near residents. The plant would threaten the health and safety of all people, both nearby and those in the path of winds blowing fumes.