This petition is about the air I breath and the water I drink. I live in Cape May County and the option of clean energy is on the table. However, our state's Board of Public Utilities has stalled the wind energy leases and is favoring South Jersey Gas, a private fossil fuel company that proposes to go through our Pinelands, that has a huge aquifer of pure water, rather than other routes which may cost them more money. The Pinelands Commission has already denied this route. We need to move forward and no longer use fossil fuels and replace them with clean energy, wind, and solar. This is the future.

Pipe up, pipe out! Shut down Line 5. This is a Great Lakes call to action.

1. The United States must be a leader in fighting global climate change. 2. The United States has made public commitments to fighting global warming ahead of international talks on the issue that will take place in Paris the December. 3. Withholding funds from the Green Climate Fund and IPCC impairs the United States' standing as a global leader on fighting climate change.

WARNING! Our Great Lakes fresh water is in danger! Two 62-year old oil pipelines threatens the Great lakes. They pass between the state's upper and lower peninsulas along the bottom of the Straits of Mackinaw. Oil and water don't mix and if it were to rupture it would spill oil across the Great Lakes. Please act now and make Enbridge replace the pipeline.

We are starting this position to try to influence the Mayor and Oakland City Council to stop advancing a nativist agenda under the false pretense that it's fire risk mitigation. We deserve real fire risk mitigation, not something that claims to be what it isn't and will actually increase fire risk.

World Oceans Day is June 8th and we think it's the perfect opportunity to bring attention to Rhode Island's beautiful waters and heritage as the Ocean State. This summer as we head out to the great blue waters of Rhode Island, we want to remind local leaders and businesses that it takes a continuing commitment to keep Rhode Island's waters clean. We're collecting signatures online for this letter to local officials. We'll put your signatures in writing and share this message with them:

The San Carlos Apache holy land has long been protected under a mandate of the Forest Service. The land has had special protections since 1955, when President Dwight D. Eisenhower decreed the area closed to mining because of its cultural and natural value. A large group of people from the San Carlos Apache have been camped out Oak Flat for more than three months, protesting the latest assault on their culture. In December 2014, Congress promised to hand the title for Oak Flat over to a private, Australian-British mining concern. A fine-print rider trading away the Indian holy land was added at the last minute to the must-pass military spending bill, the National Defense Authorization Act. By doing this, Congress has handed over a sacred Native American site to a foreign-owned company for what may be the first time in our nation’s history. This article was published in the New York Times Opinion Page on May 29, 2015: "Selling Off Apache Holy Land" by Lydia Millet

When shopping at Harris Teeter, we have a right to make healthy, responsible, and informed choices about the food we buy. But we can’t do that because Harris Teeter doesn’t label its products that contain GMOs. While more research needs to be done to understand the full impact of GMOs, they are not without risk. For example, some GMOs are designed to allow for increased use of pesticides, which have been linked to serious health and environmental impacts. And GMOs usually don’t undergo safety testing before they’re allowed onto the market. More than 60 countries, including the entire European Union, already require GMO labeling. And 93 percent of the American public polled supports labeling GMOs.[1] However, Monsanto and other giant agribusinesses are spending millions to counter this public support and block GMO labeling laws. Big Ag even spent close to $40 million against a GMO labeling initiative in California. But while they’re standing in the way of change, the grocery and food industries are slowly starting to respond to the growing demand for labeling. Some stores, like Whole Foods, have started labeling their GMO products. And General Mills recently announced that Cheerios will now be GMO-free. Harris Teeter should follow the lead set by Whole Foods and others, and start labeling their store-brand products that contain GMOs. -------------------------------------- [1] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/28/science/strong-support-for-labeling-modified-foods.html

URGENT APPEAL TO NEIGHBORS, GUESTS OF WILDERNESS LAKE, AND FRIENDS The CT State Police and the CT Department of Environmental and Public Protection's proposed new Firearm Training Facility has been narrowed down to prospective 2 sites, with the major one located in Willington, consisting of 327± acres east of Ruby Road (the other site is located in East Windsor). A brief description of what is proposed: 55,000 square feet of buildings (one, or a combination of smaller buildings) that will contain: - classrooms to hold up to approximately 100 troopers and/or cadets - firearms simulator room - open area training room - indoor active-shooter training (not sure if this means an indoor range) - gun cleaning and smithing space - file storage room - staff offices - firearms vault - ammunition storage vault - recruit/staff kitchen and dinning area - reloading area - target storage area - bathrooms with lockers and showers - a garage Outdoor facilities will consist of: - 2 Range Control Towers - Qualifying Pistol Range (approximately 200 ft x 170 ft) - Active Shooter Training Range (approximately 200 ft x 170 ft) - Rifle Range (approximately 300 yd x 50 yd) - Shotgun Rifle Range (approximately 100 yd x 30 yd) - Approximately 125 parking spaces and the requisite well, septic systems, telecom, and electrical utilities. Residents have overwhelmingly opposed this facility, as has the Board of Selectmen. The concerns voiced range from the noise of the gunfire to the potential lead contamination of soil and water, as well as significant loss of property value throughout the town. There is also concern that, given the size of the parcel, this facility could be expanded to include other related functions under the control of the Department of Emergency Services & Public Protection. As owners of Wilderness Lake Campground, the impact to our pristine park that offers a rural setting getaway, a quiet solitude setting in which our guests share and balance with nature and animals, we recognize that this facility would change the setting of this town treasure. As Willington residents, we work diligently to protect our land and what it provides for us. We are acutely aware of the change that a firearm facility of this magnitude will have on our existence. We ask our neighbors, our friends, our guests, as well as all concerned residents in the region, to please use your voice and speak out against the violation of the rural residential character of this region of Connecticut and our quality of life. This proposed project has now moved into the Environmental Impact Evaluation (EIE) phase. It is now too late for comments to be addressed in the EIE, which is scheduled for release in October, 2015. However, your voice still needs to be heard by our state officials who will have an influence on how this project proceeds. Important contacts are: State Representative Sam Belsito [email protected] Legislative Office Building, Room 4200 300 Capitol Avenue Hartford, CT 06106-1591 860-240-8700, 800-842-1423 (toll free) State Senator Tony Guglielmo [email protected] Legislative Office Building, Room 3400 300 Capitol Avenue Hartford, CT 06106-1591 860-240-8800, 800-842-1421 (toll free) Lieutenant Governor Nancy Wyman State Capitol, Room 304 210 Capitol Avenue Hartford, CT 06106 860-524-7384, 866-712-6998 (toll free) Governor Dannel Malloy State Capitol 210 Capitol Avenue Hartford, CT 06106 860-566-4840, 800-406-1527 (toll free) Benjamin Barnes [email protected] Secretary of Office of Policy and Management 450 Capitol Avenue Hartford, CT 06106-1379 860-418-6200, 800-286-2214 (toll free) Commissioner Dora Schriro [email protected] Department of Emergency Services & Public Protection 1111 Country Club Road Middletown, CT 06457 860-685-8000

With the way our government behaves, sometimes the only way I feel truly American is because of the education I had that informed me of the Native American ways of life. Trips out west to native sacred sites and museums allowed me to dream of a different world. Our world is in desperate need of so many of those values we tried to kill off, in need of sacredness, in need of respect for those that walked here before us, those who have so much to teach us.

Kamali'i Elementary School and all of Kihei were completely smoked out by HC&S cane burning on May 27, 2015. Photos show that you could barely see a stop light a block away. HC&S claimed it was "odor" not smoke and a photo of the smoke with "This is a photo of what HC&S calls 'odor'" made its rounds on Facebook. Obviously the archaic system of calling a no-burn day (wait until after HC&S burns and the sun comes up, look at 4 peaks, if you can see at least one of them, it is ok to burn) doesn't work. We have suggested for the last 4 years that DoH revise this rule to use easily available meteorological forecasts including VOG index, wind speed and direction and predicted inversion layer to call no-burn days PRIOR to HC&S initiating a burn. However they have done nothing despite the literally thousands of complaints they have received.

1. In 1992 only 100 Louisiana Black Bears remained due to a shrinking habitat. 2. Currently, there are only 500 to 1,000 bears believed to be in existence, which is too little to warrant removing from the Endangered Species List. 3. Due to climate change and oil and gas development, many parts of Louisiana's bear habitats are shrinking. 4. The combination of a shrinking habitat and lifting the 30 year hunting ban could bring the Louisiana Black Bear back to the brink of extinction.