We have a problem - we need a clean energy source to replace the dirty coal power plants that are closing in 2017. Thankfully there is a solution - there is enough offshore wind on our Atlantic coast to power all the homes in Massachusetts. Offshore Wind is a clean energy source that can - Reduce pollution - Increase energy security - Stabilize electric rates - Create thousands of new jobs across the state - Confront the urgent threat of climate change. While there are lots of offshore wind farms in Europe, there are none in the US yet. If we invest first then we will have an advantage in attracting offshore wind jobs. If we wait then New York State will jump on this opportunity and they will have the advantage. We need our state leaders to make sure that Massachusetts is first when it comes to offshore wind! For more information visit - http://www.offshorewindma.com/ http://www.nwf.org/What-We-Do/Energy-and-Climate/Renewable-Energy/Offshore-Wind.aspx

The PennEast Pipeline Company is trying to build a massive pipeline through Hunterdon and Mercer counties that will pollute the water supply and scar preserved land. Pipelines put local communities at risk – and to add insult to injury, PennEast may get the power to take private property against land owners’ wills for this project. The good news is that there's massive opposition to the project. Local townships in the pipeline's path, residents across the state, and members of Congress have weighed in, and they’ve managed to delay PennEast's application for seven more months. If we can mobilize state lawmakers to speak up, we can keep the pressure on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and get the attention of the NJ Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), which needs to approve PennEast’s application too. Tell your state legislators to oppose the PennEast Pipeline and urge FERC and DEP to reject the application!

Gas drillers and their legislative allies are making a last ditch effort to stop new oil and gas drilling safeguards, which could open the door to undoing a ban on fracking waste pits.

Blue Crest Energy of Texas will begin fracking off the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska this June. As data begins to come in about hydro fracking from states and communities that have been adversely affected by fracking, the news that this beautiful and wild area of Alaska is next to be fracked is disturbing. This area is home to the Kenai Moose Refuge, salmon fishing, and Beluga Whales. Tourism in this area is based on the health of the ecosystem. Fishing is world class and the area is home to many whose recreation and economics are dependent on this area being uncontaminated and having clean air and clean water. In addition, this area is very seismic, prone to earthquakes on a regular basis without the risk of fracking creating more and uncontrolled earthquakes. This affects all who live here and those who love this area and come to visit and appreciate one of the last great wild places.

This petition hopes to bring awareness of colony collapse in bee populations, due to Neonicotinoids (pesticide) use. Florida can't afford to lose anymore pollinators, and it's time for us acknowledge these important insects!

Fracking is a type of drilling that injects millions of gallons of hydraulic fluids — a mixture of chemicals, water and sand — into a well to create pressure that cracks open rock underground, releasing natural gas or oil. This process can deplete and contaminate local water, damage the environment and threaten public health. The fugitive methane pollution from the hydrofracturing process is accelerating global warming. On a national scale, a growing body of scientific evidence is building that the climate benefits of switching from coal to natural gas were a total mirage, with the catastrophic Porter Ranch methane blowout the most visible and extreme example of a nationwide surge in methane leakage as a result of the domestic fracking boom promoted by the Bush and Obama administrations. Methane is a greenhouse gas that is 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide on a twenty-year timespan. Fracking threatens our air and water. The toxic results of using hydraulic fracturing to extract natural gas have led to the contamination of drinking water, and disposal of wastewater from fracking causes earthquakes. Oklahoma became the number one place for earthquakes on Earth this year because gas companies inject fracking fluid back into the ground. Toxic and carcinogenic fracking chemicals—as well as hazardous working conditions—are poisoning and killing workers in the fracking industry. Fracking is a large-scale industrial process that doesn’t belong in anyone’s backyard or deserve exemption from laws that protect the health of our children and of our workers. That’s why communities all over the country from New York to California and Texas to Colorado have stood up to the oil and gas industry and said they don’t want fracking in their backyards. We have clean energy solutions to climate change, and fracking is not one of them. The Democratic Party needs to take a clear stand against dirty energy and for a climate-safe future - the party platform should call for an immediate moratorium on fracking everywhere.

It's time for Minnesota to seriously strengthen protections of its' natural resources and combat climate change by banning any proposed future pipelines. It's time to listen to the scientists and not the fossil fuel industry's Big Money.

Non-profit, local public government oversight, local peace and justice request. Love for humanity, family, suffering survivors of the former Rocky Flats Nuclear Production Facility, and global citizens who have died due to radioactive exposure.

Our children are depending on us to leave them a world worth living in, not one whose climate has spun dangerously out of control just so a few corporations can line their pockets a little longer. This is not a game and time is running out!

Western Environmental Law Center is a nonprofit, public-interest environmental law firm. Our expert attorneys are ready to use the full power of the law and the courts to protect grizzly bears. We will be submitting legal comments to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service regarding their proposal, but we need your help! Please join us before the comment deadline on May 10, 2016 by signing this petition and adding your comments to USFWS that you want grizzlies to fully recover as a natural and integral part of our landscape.

The bear hunt of 2015 was opposed by 75% of the state based on email responses and public media polls. Since then public media polls are up to 92% in opposition to the hunt. FWC is still contemplating another hunt and we, the citizens, would like to gain representation through our counties to demonstrate our opposition to the hunt and influence the FWC commissioners to opt against any future hunt.

The community of Mt. Pleasant will lose almost 10 acres of beautiful, open and recreational space because the Trident Academy property has been sold to a developer who plans to construct 19 homes starting this fall. We must insist that our town government follow through on its promise to protect and preserve open/recreational space by recognizing the immense quality-of-life benefits this property provides our families. We urge them to vote against its re-zoning and purchase it for the town.