"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure," certainly applies to our Great Lakes. These pipelines are old and pose a severe risk to our region's most precious natural resource. During your campaign you spoke about being a strong protector of our natural resources. Now is your chance as a lawmaker to let your walking do your talking. Please take actions that would immediately shut down this dangerous infrastructure across the Straits of Mackinaw.

Bees are a critical part of our agriculture. Without bees, we would only eat black tea and brown bread. They are important to the development of our food and life. Without them, we wouldn't survive.

I know many people dislike bees because they are allergic or they do not like to get stung; none of us do. But did you know that bees, especially honeybees, help with our survival? They carry pollen to what we need to eat, as well as what the animals that provide us with meat need to eat. Sadly, 90% of wild bees have died out! Albert Einstein said, "If honeybees become extinct, human society will follow in four years." Does that not make you think? For more information please go to: http://blog.targethealth.com/?p=58 or http://www.ars.usda.gov/News/docs.htm?docid=15572

There are only 97 vaquita porpoises left in the world. The vaquita are being caught and drowned by fishermen chasing the endangered totoaba fish. The totoaba are prized in China for their swim bladders, and we have evidence that they are being smuggled right now from Mexico into Hong Kong. The Mexican government already placed a two-year ban on destructive gillnet fishing in the vaquita's home, and even the United States has stepped up efforts to stop the illegal trade. But inaction in Hong Kong threatens this progress. Take action now. Tell Hong Kong Chief Executive CY Leung to stop this before it's too late!

As a child we always had a garden. Vegetables of all kinds were always on my dinner table. I am worried about the future of my children, their children, and children all over the world if the bees keep disappearing.

If there's hardly anything left to pollinate anything, we're going to have another big ol' fun dust bowl, friends.

Hydraulic Fracturing is hazardous to the health of the Kansas community. It can destroy the water table with carcinogenic chemicals that cannot be removed affecting the entire population. Farmland could become toxic because of fracking and have a huge negative impact on the Kansas economy. The recent earthquakes are caused by hydraulic fracturing and can destroy our homes and endanger lives. It is urgent that fracking ends in Kansas. Several states in the US have fought and won against the oil and natural gas companies who are endangering our well being and public safety. It's time to End Fracking in Kansas!

Neonicotinoid pesticides have been positively linked to Colony Collapse Disorder in bees and adversely affect the health of many other beneficial insects. Most of the plants in Lowe's garden centers have been treated with these dangerous chemicals. Customers do not have a reliable way to determine which plants are harmful to bees. If these treated plants were labelled, people could make informed decisions about what to plant in their landscape.

Every American alive today has seen the state of endangerment that many species are in today. In Alaska, the Polar Bear. In Florida, the Condor. I do not want to live to see a vital animal in Michigan be hunted for sport in the state of Michigan.

This 62 year old tar sands pipeline is a serious threat to the Great Lakes. It has poor maintenance and is operated by Enbridge, known to have repeated pipeline leaks in their system and owners of the line that devastated the Kalamazoo River. A leak from this line, already known to have pinhole leaks, will be an environmental and economic catastrophe in the Great lakes.

Not only is this rider of the 2015 National Defense Authorization Act (signed into law as Public Law 113-291 by President Obama on 12/19/14) an insidious affront to (already besieged) tribal sovereignty, but it is a classic case of congressional corruption: Rio Tinto (Resolution Mining's parent company) affiliates have been McCain campaign contributors, and Senator Flake was formerly a paid lobbyist for Rio Tinto. Even the local miners' group opposes the land swap because it won’t help the local people or economy. Rio Tinto has been called out in the past for environmental devastation (info courtesy of Lydia Millet of the NYT: http://nyti.ms/1M1iMhi). This sacred land has been used by the Apache people for countless generations for coming-of-age ceremonies and gathering traditional foods. The Apache people have been hosting a protest on the land for the past several months. Let's support them in their efforts to save their land! Repeal Sec. 3003 of H.R. 3979!

Challenge: Set your kitchen timer for two minutes and then say out loud all of your concerns about the PennEast pipeline. If you're like me, you didn't get very far before the bell rang. And yet the Delaware River Basin Commission thinks that two minutes is enough time to share all of your concerns with them AND with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission! That's right! DRBC is proposing a combined DRBC/FERC hearing that would allow a mere two minutes to make your comment. And let’s be honest, while DRBC is making a decision about whether to allow PennEast to cut through our communities; FERC is just deciding how it is going to go about approving it. We need a full opportunity for DRBC to hear us – two minutes just isn’t enough. DRBC says they're thinking of you — they want to cut down on the number of hearings you have to attend. They don't understand that you need every second you can get to make the case to save your families, your property, your communities and your environment! Let’s take DRBC at their word — If it's your convenience they're so concerned with, we're urging you to say, "Come to me, DRBC!" Tell DRBC that you want separate hearings for DRBC and FERC and you want DRBC to schedule hearings in at least 7 towns along the pipeline route.