As a Florida college student in an earth-friendly environment, this issue concerns me.

A multi-national corporation that has taken initiatives for social justice should start at home with the waste it produces and managing it for a sustainable environment.

North central Florida's coast remains virtually unspoiled and is the only known calving area for the North Atlantic right whale (once numbering in the 100's of thousands, the population was hunted almost to extinction and now numbers about 500). These extraordinary gentle, slow moving whales travel from Nova Scotia down to Florida to give birth. The proposed Eubaelena Oculina National Marine Sanctuary will expand the current tiny critical habitat of the North Atlantic right whale and protect the area permanently from seismic air-gun blasting and oil and gas - http://www.nominate.noaa.gov/nominations/ - but the fishing/boating/oil and gas lobbies are working overtime spreading falsified information in order to prevent this protection. Tell President Obama and Senator Bill Nelson to establish this National Marine Sanctuary before it's too late! Stop the oil and gas industry from destroying these magnificent creatures and our Florida waters!

A proposed 250-acre drag racing facility will create significant noise and light pollution as well as toxic runoff that could threaten decades of work and critical Hawaiian coastline that includes Mahai`ula and Manini`owali (aka Kua Bay). We ask elected representatives to encourage more compatible use of those state, "ceded lands" while working to find win-win solutions to the public's varied recreational goals, including providing utmost protection of Hawai`i Island's natural beauty, environmental and cultural integrity.

Money and politics are a bad combination.

Eight youth plaintiffs just won a precedent-setting court victory in Foster et. al. v. Washington Department of Ecology. The Western Environmental Law Center, a nonprofit public interest law firm, represented the youth who filed their petition in collaboration with Our Children's Trust, a nonprofit leading a global legal campaign for a healthy atmosphere and stable climate. In a landmark decision, the King County Superior Court ordered the Washington Department of Ecology to reconsider their decision denying the youth’s request for a rule regulating carbon dioxide emissions and to consider the best available climate science. We need your voice to help us ensure that Governor Inslee does the right thing by directing Ecology to regulate carbon dioxide emissions by August 7, 2015.

Many recognize NPR as a leader in unbiased news and information. Its integrity is weakened when it benefits from advertising money from an industry contributing to climate change and climate disaster.

PG&E is applying for a license extension on the operation of Diablo Nuclear Power Plant’s twin reactors (located near San Luis Obispo), adding an extra 20 years to its expiration dates of November 2, 2024 and August 26, 2025. By these dates, each reactor would have already been in operation for 40 years. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will conduct two public hearings on August 5 at the Courtyard by Marriott San Luis Obispo, 1605 Calle Joaquin Road. The first session will run from 1:30-4:30 p.m. and the second from 7-10 p.m. Having a Nuclear Power plant with two reactors that reside near a minimum of 2 earthquake faults, (2.5 miles from the Hosgri Fault, 1 mile from the Shoreline Fault) is a danger to the people and property in the surrounding regions. Nuclear reactors that can house the radioactivity of the equivalent of thousands of Hiroshima bombs do not belong in earthquake country and populous regions. They did not belong in Fukishima, Japan, and they don’t belong in California. The Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power plant is located a little over 200 miles from the heavily populated San Francisco Bay Area to the North and about the same amount of miles to the second most populous region in the United States, Los Angeles-Long Beach metropolitan area to the South. Whether by earthquake, terrorism or just a simple mistake the devastation could be so monumental as to impact California for decades at minimum. This facility cannot be granted another 20 years of operation. Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant must be shut down by its scheduled license expiration dates, if not before.

Not only are these two Great Lakes the source of freshwater for millions of people in several states, they also provide thousands of pounds of edible fish - all of which is in danger of being ruined if this decades old pipeline should burst. We in Michigan have seen how slowly Enbridge responds to pipeline leaks and the results in the Kalamazoo River are heart breaking, but they pale in comparison to what could happen if something happens to the 62 year old pipeline that runs beneath the confluence of Lakes Michigan and Huron.

All throughout our country industrial agriculture using CAFOs has been housing dairy cows, pigs, chickens and other livestock in small confined areas. The volume of urine and manure produced is beyond what a sustainable environment can handle. This results in nitrate contaminated water supplies and significant air pollution. A recent federal court case in Yakima County, Washington presented EPA and other scientific data to the federal judge and he determined that the industrial dairies were polluting the ground water with nitrates through leaking manure lagoons, long term storage or composting of acres of unused manure, and over-application of manure on fields. He determined that manure is an environmental hazard when produced in great quantity and inappropriately managed. He determined that manure should be regulated as a solid waste. Almost immediately a U.S. Congressman from the Yakima Valley, Dan Newhouse, attached amendment 613 to H.R. 2822 that would reverse the court’s decision and prevent the EPA from regulating manure as a solid waste. For the sake of our land, water, air and the innocent neighbors of CAFOs, this amendment needs to be withdrawn or defeated.

The City of Cherokee Commissioners must make ALL necessary repairs to the city's water system. The people of Cherokee spent in excess of $1 million installing a reverse osmosis treatment plant. But now the water coming out of our taps smelling like pond water and is the color of tea or worse. Many of the water mains are old rusted iron pipes that need to be replaced. Clean water is the most vital resource. Please sign this petition.

We need to protect our local community from overwhelming corporate interests. Please support our HOA and local residents fight the proposed Verizon cell tower being built in our residential community.