>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.

Climate Change is the Biggest issue of our times. It underlies and exacerbates issues of food insecurity and health, and is tossed around as if it's just politics as usual. We cannot continue to let the issue be normalized to a normal debate. It's time we do something to hold media accountable.

It has been weeks, if not months, since I have seen or heard anything about the water sin Flint. We must not allow our state government, Governor and legislature, to forget that the situation still exists.

Ron Johnson uses the logic that "most of our air pollution comes from Chicago so why should Wisconsin businesses be penalized?" In other words if your neighbor throws his trash on his front lawn and it blows onto your property, the solution is that you start throwing your trash on your own front lawn as well? This is nuts!!! But unfortunately people buy into this crazy logic so we must be the keeper of sanity and denounce this as what it is: Greed at the expense of the air we all—even Republicans—breathe.

As a Texan and a mother, I am personally affected every time someone drinks poisonous water in my state. As an American, I have been appalled by the water crisis in Flint, Michigan. We are, all across the country, dealing with contamination issues with our drinking water due to the aging infrastructure our governments refuse to repair. Anti-anti-discrimination bills, bathroom policy debates, and the creation of MORE corporate wealth should be lower priorities than creating safe drinking water systems for all citizens. I am tired of Republicans wasting legislative time and tax payer dollars on distractions and want them to start making our Pipes Great Again. Deliver on SOMETHING positive that helps everyone for a change.

Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) recently investigated a Certified Humane, cage-free egg farm in Colorado that supplies eggs to Sprouts. The investigators found mass starvation, with hundreds of hens dying every week simply because they could not access food. They also found intense crowding, disease, and cannibalism. During the investigation, DxE found a hen on the brink of death, whose beak was sealed shut with feces. She had been eating feces off the floor because she couldn’t get to the food. Investigators rescued her, saved her life, and named her Annie. Sprouts sells cage-free eggs at a premium because they tell their consumers they are more humane, but the conditions on their farms are anything but humane. Demand Sprouts stop promoting cage-free eggs and other lies about how animals are treated.

Cambria Community Services District: CEASE and DESIST! The Regional Water Quality Control Board has issued more Notices of Violation to the Cambria Community Services District due to failures stemming from their rushed water project. In 2014 the Cambria Community Services District deceived ratepayers and claimed an emergency brackish water project would be temporary and portable, for existing customers only, costing between $100,000 to $4 million and would deliver water by July 1, 2014. The project construction was to be completed by November of 2014 and to run only during a Stage 3 water shortage declared by CCSD. None of these claims proved to be true. The district FAILED - to analyze less expensive alternatives to this project - to provide water by July of 2014 - to design/construct an affordable, temporary project to abate an emergency - to complete construction of the project - to analyze disposal of brine waste - to complete the application for a Coastal Development Permit for the emergency project - to complete an environmental impact report for three years - to respond to three years of comments submitted by regulatory agencies and citizens - to hold project contractor responsible for obvious hydrogeologic and design flaws - to comply with Water Board discharge regulations and monitoring requirements - to comply with County ordinances - to adequately respond to neighbor complaints regarding noise and brine overspray - to offset the $9 million loan by applying a $4 million grant as promised - to provide competent operators to run the emergency project Failing so much, the Cambria Community Services District must be held accountable. In March of 2016 the CSD changed the purpose and intent of this emergency project (renamed it the Sustainable Water Project) to support new water meter connections in Cambria without voter approval. The CSD submitted an application for this growth inducing project in 2017, which describes new water treatment construction options and brine disposal methods without analyzing the costs and impacts of these modifications. The project has not been subjected to the level of review required for a long term public works project that guarantees growth. Ratepayers did not vote for a public works project for growth. The project has already committed us to years of ratepayer debt while our infrastructure fails. Total cost of the “emergency” project and the “sustainable” project is unknown because the district continues to make decisions behind closed doors to revise and correct the current “emergency” water project and to amend contracts to expand their scope. We, the ratepayers of Cambria and others, oppose this deception and abuse of power. No new project for growth should be approved until long overdue habitat protection programs are fully funded and implemented by qualified and independent agents including: - Instream flow studies for both San Simeon and Santa Rosa Creeks - Water Quality Monitoring programs to protect iconic species - Build Out Reduction program to mitigate growth - Cambria Forest Management Plan and Forest Ecologist hired to protect Monterey Pines - Habitat Conservation Plans to protect our local creeks for the future The Regional Water Quality Control Board is preparing a cease and desist order (attached) and an administrative civil liability complaint against Cambria CSD for multiple violations of their permits. San Simeon and Santa Rosa Creeks and wildlife must be protected.

The Trump administration says the EPA cuts reflect a philosophy of limiting federal government and devolving authority to the states, localities and, in some cases, corporations. But environmental groups say the Trump administration is answering the call of companies seeking lax regulation and endangering Americans’ air and water.

In the fall of 2016, Kalamazoo, Michigan agreed to take a 70 million dollar donation from the 1% of Kalamazoo led by Former Monsanto board director, MPI research president (a company that sells animals for scientific testing with several animal abuse cases) and Chair of Michigan Governor Rick Snyder's Political PAC William "Bill" Parfet. Kalamazoo essentially took this money as a partnership with an undisclosed understanding of what the people of Kalamazoo would be committing to with taking this money. We have heard claims of being responsible to raise 500 million in 3 years, that our emergency services will be radically budgeted with Wall Street market performance (not like traditional options). Now Kalamazoo is financially in bed with the same corporate circles who made the decisions with flints water no less. Kalamazoo is hearing whispers that our water is next to be privatized under Michigan government. This petition is here to work as a preemptive statement to say the people of Kalamazoo will not see privatized water like Detroit and Flint. We will not accept this corporate favoritism. Before we hold a local election, we demand to know who will agree to not allow privatization of water for Kalamazoo and Portage Michigan. This petition is not legally binding and is intended to be used as outreach about addressing the problem. No petition addresses corruption alone. This is simply used to let people know this fight is about to happen before it is publicly presented.

Cutting protections in environmental, public health, consumer protection, labor standards, occupational safety and civil rights law affect everyone. With Trump's destroy your department Cabinet, we must keep any control we have to preserve public safety. (Story that captured my attention is from Huffington Post - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carl-pope/the-most-dangerous-bill-y_b_14067390.html?)

These resolutions must not be passed by the Senate. We urge Senators Collins and King to vote NO on H.R. 1430 and H.R. 1431 if they come to a vote in Committee or on the floor. These two bills are backdoor attempts to undermine the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to use science in decision-making and obstruct the process for developing effective public health safeguards.