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.

We are writing you today to request your help to pass a resolution that would ban the use of single use plastic bags in Keene, NH. Plastic bags are an unnecessary environmental hazard since many eco-friendly options exist like canvas shopping bags. As Greenpeace has stated: “Every year, 15 billion pounds of plastic are produced in the U.S., but only 1 billion are recycled. At a time where many people are trying to find ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, we are collectively using about 12 million barrels of oil to produce the plastic bags that are used each year. Many of these bags end up on the streets and sidewalks or caught in tree branches. Others wind up in rivers and streams, where they are washed out to sea. Once these bags end up in the oceans, they join other types of plastic trash from around the world and are often swept up in currents to make its way to enormous whirling eddies of trash. The largest, near Hawaii, is more than a thousand miles across and contains more plastic than plankton. Plastic bags and other bits of floating debris are mistaken for food by seabirds, turtles, and other marine life. Up to 1 million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals and turtles die each year as a result of plastic debris.” We can break ourselves of the plastic bag habit. Some governments and retailers have begun taking steps to phase out plastic bags. San Francisco banned them in 2007, and several countries have either banned or taxed the use of plastic bags. Just recently, Cambridge, Massachusetts passed a ban on plastic bags. We hope that Keene can be another example of a community that shows environmental responsibility. I encourage you to take a stand and add our city to the growing list of cities and towns that are banning plastic bags.

Industrial hemp is an agricultural commodity that is cultivated for use in the production of a wide range of products, including foods and beverages, cosmetics and personal care products, and nutritional supplements, as well as fabrics and textiles, paper, construction and insulation materials, and other manufactured goods. Hemp can be grown as a fiber, seed, or other dual-purpose crops. Congress added Sec. 7606 to the 2014 Farm Bill which defines industrial hemp as distinct from marijuana and authorizes hemp research and pilot programs by universities and state departments of agriculture. In 2015, states including Colorado, Kentucky, Oregon and Tennessee authorized hemp pilot programs conducted by farmers and more than 3,900 acres of hemp were harvested. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has been certifying hemp crops organic under the National Organic Program (NOP) for more than 15 years and hundreds of millions of dollars of consumable USDA organic hemp products have been sold worldwide. Currently hemp foods and supplements are sold by thousands of U.S. retailers and hemp seed products are widely recognized as safe and nutritious. Hemp crops in Canada, Europe and China are certified organic under the NOP each year. Hemp seed and fiber is 100% legal to import and sell in the U.S. and legal USDA organic certified hemp products, made with hemp grown in other countries, are sold in thousands of retail outlets across the U.S. Sterilized or processed hemp seed is excluded from the definition of marijuana under 21 U.S.C. 802(16): (16) The term ‘‘marihuana’’ means all parts of the plant Cannabis sativa L., whether growing or not; the seeds thereof; the resin extracted from any part of such plant; and every compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation of such plant, its seeds or resin. Such term does not include the mature stalks of such plant, fiber produced from such stalks, oil or cake made from the seeds of such plant, any other compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation of such mature stalks (except the resin extracted therefrom), fiber, oil, or cake, or the sterilized seed of such plant which is incapable of germination. - Petition prepared by the Hemp Industries Association (HIA) -