Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) recently investigated Jaindl Turkey Farms, the famed supplier of Thanksgiving turkey to the White House for the past 50 years. While Jaindl has been rated in the top 98th percentile for animal welfare, investigators found thousands of baby birds in cramped and filthy conditions, taken away from their mothers, and with their beaks seared off. Many turkeys were unable to walk due to broken limbs. In the course of the investigation, DxE rescued a turkey and named her Avery (PresidentsTurkey.com). President Obama, a self-proclaimed animal lover, has the opportunity to take a strong stance against violence this Thanksgiving. Sign the petition and ask President Obama to pardon all the turkeys presented to the White House and cut ties with Jaindl and other animal abusing corporations.

Cherry Point, or Xwe’chi’eXen, is considered sacred to the Lummi Nation and protected by the Treaty of Point Elliott of 1855. In May, the Army Corps of Engineers recognized this treaty and denied permits for a coal shipping terminal at Cherry Point. Now, we are requesting that the state Department of Natural Resources follow the Corps' lead and protect Cherry Point for all future Lummi Nation people by adding the sacred 45 acres of land to the Cherry Point Aquatic Reserve. The deadline for commentary is November 18.

I am a California citizen who voted for Kamala Harris in the 2016 elections. One of the main reasons I supported her was her fierce stance on protecting the environment. On her website it states "For too long, Congress has refused to pass any legislation to fight climate change and global warming." However we have not heard her stance on the Dakota Access Pipeline, which is now gathering national and worldwide attention. As a supporter, I would like to know her stance on this issue.

Rocky Mountain Power is trying to dramatically increase the cost of electricity for Utahns who want to power their homes with solar energy. It has proposed new charges on consumers who choose to install solar that: - Would be bad for business and will kill thousands of solar jobs in Utah. - Unfairly punishes consumers who are trying to save money by using less power - Would allow Rocky Mountain Power to take advantage of its monopoly by eliminating consumer choice, energy independence and a consumer’s ability to do what they wish on their roof tops. The proposal by Rocky Mountain Power is the most aggressive, anti-consumer, anti-competitive and anti-solar proposal ever made by a utility in the United States.

A President-elect's denial of climate change is a threat to us all. The Wharton School is the only institution of higher learning which Donald Trump attended (earning a Bachelor of Science degree in 1968). Consequently, the Wharton School should send a message to Trump that it holds its graduates accountable to accept scientific consensus on climate change.

Governor Tom Wolf recently announced the new PIPE program that takes $24 million from an alternative energy program to further incentivize construction of natural gas pipelines in the state. This program would connect schools, hospitals, municipalities, manufacturing plants, and industrial parks to natural gas distribution lines, creating even more customers for the industry that is putting our communities and our most vulnerable populations -- children, the elderly, and the infirmed -- at risk. Building more pipelines when we should be transitioning away from fossil fuels is irresponsible. Asking the very populations that are most vulnerable to the immediate health and safety impacts to contribute to their own potential undoing is completely unacceptable.

Connecticut's drinking water has been found to contain chromium-6, which is reported by the EPA as extremely toxic and a human carcinogen (cancer causing agent). Specifically, the town in which I live with my three children, Hazardville, has been found to have the highest levels in the state. The EPA currently allows for 100 ppb (parts per billion) of chromium-6, based on old research that only supposes this as a safe level. In a March 21, 2016 release by www.ctpost.com it is reported that "Connecticut has one of the highest cancer rates in America". We cannot say whether this is related to chromium-6, but neither can we deny that it may be. It is time for the EPA to act in favor of people having safe drinking water. Not merely for Hazardville, a subsection of Enfield, Connecticut, but for all of Connecticut and the country. Please help in asking the EPA and legislators for stronger regulation of chromium-6, by signing your name. Today one small town's drinking water, tomorrow every small town's.

I'm inspired by Morgan Spurlock's documentary, RATS, to ask for better trash and recycling practices to be placed on restaurants and eateries throughout the city to control the mouse and rat problem. I grew up in Brooklyn and I can't imagine living anywhere other than New York. This wonderful city is overrun with these disease-carrying pests. Everyone's health is at risk.

Climate change is real, scientific fact and is slowly but surely threatening any hope of a safe planet for future generations. By allowing a climate-change denier to take control of filling positions at the EPA, President-elect Trump is contributing to the destruction of a planet we all love and depend upon.

In a time when it's crucial to combat climate change, our country can not afford to appoint a denier as the head of the EPA position. 46 years ago, the EPA was created because our American rivers were so contaminated that they burst into flames and smog-filled skies were over our country's beautiful cities. That was only 46 years ago. We can not go back 46 years with Myron Ebell.

If the processes behind Global Warming are not addressed (The Donald promised to shut them down). Billions of people including Americans will perish in the rising seas and storms that will prevail.

The democratic process has spoken, and Donald Trump will be sworn in as the President of the United States on January 20, 2017. Whether or not you supported Trump in the election is no longer an issue. The issue at hand is this: You love this planet. As an outdoorsman or woman your time spent outdoors is therapeutic, exhilarating, singular, and convivial all at the same time. The unfortunate truth (No pun intended) is that our President-elect does not believe in climate change. Environmental science has come too far to be dismissed as a "hoax" implemented by our industrial competition to keep us out of a global manufacturing economy. The fact of the matter is that the United States has evolved past the industrial revolution, if this nation wants to become an industrial powerhouse again it will have to be done in an environmentally conscious manner. That's where you come in, sign this petition to get President-elect Trump to start by simply ACKNOWLEDGING that Climate Change exists, and we'll take it from there, as a nation.