Do not allow yourselves to be bullied by the NRA's support for continuing the gun range. The Park District has allowed operation for over fifty years of an outdoor Gun Range in Anthony Chabot Regional Park—which is otherwise made up of over five square miles of hills and streams, open space and wildlife habitat, trails and campsites. It provides an experience of nature to the masses of people living near San Francisco Bay—except for the gun noise and lead pollution which often shatter their peace and quiet. Dramatic population growth in the San Francisco area in the last fifty years and the central location of this regional park have led to thousands of people seeking an experience of nature here. They are often cheated out of that experience by the explosive sound of rapid gunfire. The Gun Club lease expiration at the end of this year provides a natural endpoint for operation of the Gun Range. Recent independent professional studies commissioned by the Park District reveal that the buildings and other facilities used by the Gun Range will need to be replaced soon and drainage reconstructed, at a cost of about $1.5 million. This is on top of the cost of complying with current State and Federal environmental regulations and reducing the gunshot noise pollution, which will cost about another $1.6 million. Add the two costs together, and you get over $3 million, and that is not even counting the $2.5 million to $20 million it will cost to remove the lead contamination from the soil. The Park District receives $40,000 net per year from the Gun Club, but if the Gun Range were to continue to operate, required cleanup would cost between $62,000 and $166,000 every year, which would require the taxpayers to subsidize the operation. This is unthinkable. Live up to the Park District’s Mission Statement, which says it will provide open space, parks, trails, safe and healthful recreation and environmental education. Let the many other gun ranges in the San Francisco area meet the need for gun training and practice. Restore this park to the thousands of hikers, horse and bicycle riders, campers and other nature lovers, who need it as a place to retreat into nature, to maintain their quality of life and their sanity–end the Gun Range operation.

Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush just announced that he opposes renewing the Voting Rights Act (VRA) -- saying “I don't support reauthorizing it as is.” Governor Bush needs to get his facts straight. Because of a 2013 Supreme Court decision that gutted one of the law’s crucial protections against discrimination at the polls, restoring the VRA “as is” isn’t even an option. Instead, there’s a bipartisan bill before Congress right now, the Voting Rights Advancement Act (VRAA), that’d update the VRA for the discrimination voters still face today and stop laws that block us from exercising our rights. Any candidate who wants our votes - all eligible Americans’ votes - should work to protect and strengthen the right to vote. Jeb Bush should call on Congress to pass the VRAA, and encourage his fellow presidential candidates to do the same. Tell Jeb Bush: if you think the VRA needs to be modernized, then call on Congress to get it done!

I have been a resident bordering Wharton State Forest for 34 years. Ever since Rob Auermuller tried to push the original MAP through without transparency, I have lost all trust in his judgments; I feel as if I cannot trust his involvement in the stakeholder meetings. The current "circle the roads you feel should be opened" process should be reversed to where Rob explains to us on a blank piece of paper what areas should be closed to motor vehicle access due to environmental data pertaining the certain area. We are the OWNERS of the forest and our permission should be asked for.

As a lover of the outdoors, open space, and wildlife, I want to see our lands preserved, protected, and expanded for future generations!

Protect the last of America's Native Wild Horses and Burros from being sent to slaughter in Mexico, Canada, and Japan.

As the oil and gas industry seeks to expand fracking on public lands across the country, including near our national parks and areas that provide critical drinking water for millions of Americans, now is the time to call on our elected officials to take a stand against dirty drilling. The Protect Our Public Lands Act would ban fracking on all federal lands, protecting our most special places from fracking's dangerous and destructive impacts.

Gov Synder sent in Emergency manager,who in turn switched the water from Detroit to the Flint river. This water has high, DANGEROUS levels of lead, which can lead to brain damage and/or death! Demand clean water for Flint and recall Gov. Snyder!

I am from Oregon and grew up with cans and bottle machines at every major grocery store. You drink the contents of the can or bottle, then you set it aside with other empties, then you take it to the store to recycle it and collect your deposit money. A deposit is a HUGE incentive to recycle, and it saves SO many empties from ending up where they never should - the landfill. I was shocked when I traveled to Missouri, Arizona, and especially Oklahoma, where cans are in piles on the side of the road in rural areas (and everywhere.) This is unacceptable. Deposits must be law-mandated across the country. There's no excuse. Although stores tend to charge extra on deposit items, making the point of collecting your deposit money seemingly pointless, having a deposit STILL shows an increase in recycling for states that have deposits. And getting those empties recycled is the whole point. Plus, it's common for people to collect others' cans that have been tossed aside, meaning they earn deposit money when they have not bought the original product. THAT is an incentive. THAT makes an enormous difference.

Verizon Wireless has plans to erect a huge mobile telecommunications facility on the roof of 12345 Ventura Court, a 51-foot tall building. The proposed project includes 12 cellular antennas, 50-foot, 9-inches in height on top of the building! This structure is adjacent to the LA River. This structure would be a terrible eyesore for everyone living on either side of the LA River in Studio City and is clearly in violation of several local Zoning and Community ordinances. This type of development is out of character for our neighborhood. It is crucial to demonstrate OPPOSITION to this project, if we are to have a chance of stopping it. Please sign and share this petition with your neighbors. Time is of the essence. There will be a public hearing on Monday, October 5 at 3:00pm. It's at Marvin Braude San Fernando Valley Constituent Services Center 6262 Van Nuys Bl., Room 1B Please attend and ask to be heard. REFERENCE: Case No. ZA 2014-1797(CUW)(SPP) CEQA NO. ENV 2014-1798-MND

Como empresarios de San Marcos, queremos incrementar el atractivo eco turistico de nuestra comunidad,limpiando el pueblo. Cuando las personas visitan nuestro pueblo, a menudo se dan cuenta de la abundancia de basura plástica en el suelo y la falta de recursos y servicios amientalmente amigables en nuestra comunidad y sus establecimientos. Creemos que al corregir estos problemas atraeremos más eco turismo, para así crear más empleos y recursos financieros localmente. Al firmar esta petición, nos comprometemos a seguir los principios empresariales de la Alianza Internacional de Basura Cero (ver http://zwia.org/standards/zw-business-principles/) para reducir la cantidad de basura que producimos. A través de esta peticion, también estamos pidiendole a la Municipalidad que establezca una meta Basura Cero para que de esta manera también se cree la infraestructura que necesitamos como comunidad para tener un mejor manejo de residuos, reciclaje y sistemas de re utilización para el beneficio de los negocios, las familias y sus hogares, y los turistas de San Marcos por igual. Definido por Alianza Internacional, Basura Cero es: “Basura Cero es una meta ética, económica, eficiente y visionaria, de guiar a las personas a cambiar sus vidas y hábitos al emular ciclos naturales sostenibles, donde todos aquellos materiales que descartamos puedan designarse y convertirse en recursos para otros. Basura Cero es un concepto y una política integral de manejo de residuos que apunta a reducir progresivamente el enterramiento y la incineración de residuos sólidos urbanos, hasta llegar a cero, adoptando una serie de medidas en cada etapa del circuito de los materiales: desde que se producen hasta que se consumen y desechan. Un plan de Basura Cero busca aplicar medidas en todo el circuito de los materiales, apuntando por un lado a reducir drásticamente la cantidad y toxicidad de los residuos que generamos y por otro a que todo lo que se deseche vuelva al circuito productivo o a la naturaleza de forma segura. Al implentar el Plan Basura Cero eliminaremos todas las descargas de desechos a la tierra, el agua y el aire, que son una amenza para la salud del planeta, los animals y los seres humanos. Una meta de reducción de basura municipal nos va a proeever de la infraestructura y el soporte que necesitamos para ganar reconocimiento internacional como Comunidad Basura Cero. Un reconocimiento de tal nivel nos va a permitir dar el ejemplo a otras comunidades alrededor del Lago, así como a todo el país. As San Marcos business owners, we want to increase our community's appeal to ecotourists by cleaning up our town. When visitors come to our community, they often notice the abundance of plastic trash on the ground and lack of earth-friendly items and services in our community and establishments. By correcting these problems, we believe we will attract more ecotourists, allowing us to create more jobs and economics for locals. By signing this petition, we are committing to follow Zero Waste International Alliance's business principles (see: http://zwia.org/standards/zw-business-principles/) to reduce the amount of trash we produce. Through this petition, we are also asking the municipality to set a Zero Waste goal, as well, so that the city will create the infrastructure we need as a community to have better waste disposal, recycling, and reuse systems for the benefit of San Marcos businesses, households, and travelers alike. Zero Waste, as defined by the Zero Waste international Alliance, means: “Zero Waste is a goal that is ethical, economical, efficient and visionary, to guide people in changing their lifestyles and practices to emulate sustainable natural cycles, where all discarded materials are designed to become resources for others to use. Zero Waste means designing and managing products and processes to systematically avoid and eliminate the volume and toxicity of waste and materials, conserve and recover all resources, and not burn or bury them. Implementing Zero Waste will eliminate all discharges to land, water or air that are a threat to planetary, human, animal or plant health.” A municipal waste reduction goal will give us the infrastructure and support we need to gain international recognition as a Zero Waste community. Such recognition will allow us to set an example for the rest of the lake communities and the country-at-large.

If a chemical is known to cause cancer, we should be alerted about it so we know the dangers of using any product that is made with that chemical. That's why California is moving to declare the chemical glyphosate - commonly sold as Monsanto's Roundup - as a carcinogen. Glyphosate has been called a "probable human carcinogen" by the World Health Organization's Agency for Research on Cancer. In light of this finding, and since hundreds of millions of pounds of this herbicide is used every year on crops across the country, it should absolutely be classified as cancer-causing and Monsanto should be required to label it as such.

Documents released from the Pennsylvania Department of Health show that the agency has had a clear pattern of responding inadequately to fracking-related health complaints made by state residents. A recent study found that hospital admissions rates were significantly higher in counties with more fracking wells than in counties with no fracking wells.  Tell Governor Wolf he can no longer ignore the public health problems created by fracking in Pennsylvania. He must act immediately to halt fracking in Pennsylvania and put forward a plan to help individuals already adversely impacted by fracking.