Kauai has the third highest electricity prices in the nation behind Lanai and Molokai. Many utility customers are working-class folks who have to work 2 or sometimes 3 jobs to make ends meet. Many would benefit from reducing their expensive utility bills by installing a solar water heater or PV system, but most simply can't afford the cost outlay. Many have bad credit, so can't borrow the installation costs from a bank. Non-profits have the challenge of raising substantial capital to install solar systems and also cannot claim the generous federal and state tax credits. The GEMS program changes the game, helping all these people. With the GEMS program, the utility lends the money to the rate payer directly with the loan payments incorporated into their utility bill. And the best part is that the loan doesn't follow the customer -- it follows the system. So if a renter moves out of a house, the new renter takes over the payments until the solar system is paid for. According to their website (gems.hawaii.gov) GEMS has the ability to finance the installation of over 44 MWs of energy across the state. Join me in signing this petition to ask KIUC to participate in the GEMS program.

I have seen all of the forests in the state of Indiana in perpetual decline due to logging and believe it is affecting the environment of today as well as for future generations.

This will affect citizens of Dublin in many ways, such as creating water shortage and traffic jams. Let's stop this waterpark!

Nestle has a water bottling facility in Madison County. They started pulling water from Blue Springs a number of years ago completely free. They don't pay any type of fee or tax for the water they take. In other words, they are stealing water from Florida. They have even fought to reduce or eliminate the property taxes they pay to our county. It's time we end this and ask Nestle to pay their fair share.

In September, 2014, federal protections for gray wolves in Wyoming were reinstated after a federal judge invalidated the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service’s (FWS) delisting of wolves in that state. In December, 2014, federal protections were also reinstated for wolves in the western Great Lakes region—including Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin—after another federal judge invalidated FWS’s delisting of wolves in that area. Wildlife management decisions should be based on the best available science, not politics. If Congress delists wolves from the Endangered Species Act, it would completely undermine one of our nation’s bedrock environmental laws—a law that Americans rely on as a safety net for our nation’s wildlife, plants, birds, insects, and fish. We have just begun to recover wolves in parts of the United States. This recovery effort has had some great successes, as we now have populations in the northern Rockies and the western Great Lakes region. But it is too soon to take wolves off the endangered species list, as multiple courts have confirmed. There is suitable habitat in numerous states where wolves have not yet reestablished populations. Continued federal protections are essential to allow existing populations to stabilize and expand to other suitable habitat. This is not just about the wolf – there are broader implications for the Endangered Species Act, as well. The Act is one of our most effective and important environmental laws, supported by nearly 85 percent of Americans. Unfortunately, the 2011 appropriations rider that delisted wolves in Idaho, Montana, and in parts of Washington, Oregon, and Utah, set a terrible precedent and rendered the Endangered Species Act vulnerable to other congressional attacks. Since the 2011 wolf rider, we’ve seen an uptick in bills and riders that undermine or block protections under the Act for particular species, along with other types of proposals to weaken the Act. We must not allow further “death by a thousand cuts” erosion of this bedrock environmental law.

The 450 unit apartment complex proposed in the "heart of the Agua Fria community" will: - destroy the community's rural residential and historical character - increase traffic congestion, noise, accidents, pollution - adversely impact city residents' use of water due to water scarcity and imposed drought conservation measures - significantly increase all other infrastructure demands on the community - set a precedent which will lead to more medium-high density development in the community; and - there are other city zoning districts that already allow for medium-high density development.

Bee colony collapse is a danger to our food supply. Lowe's recently stopped selling plants treated with neonicotinoids. It's time for Home Depot to follow suit.

I am a concerned citizen and I am personally affected by the lack of water here in Los Angeles. Preserving our natural water should be a top priority. Stopping external companies from bottling and exporting our own water is one step in this direction.

In December, the world will reach its deadline to hash out a global-climate treaty, some calling it our last chance to save the planet. But what good is a climate treaty if the nations that sign it lose their sovereignty to multi-national corporations? Trade deals such as NAFTA and the TPP bestow corporations with outrageous new powers, including the right to directly challenge participating governments for enacting any measures that jeopardize their profits. These corporate grievances are heard by unelected, unaccountable trade tribunals—and as history has shown, the energy and mining giants will seize on them to try to gut all manner of environmental laws. The expansion of such agreements has gone hand in hand with the accelerating rise in greenhouse gas emissions. In short, this corporate free trade model that the TPP represents isn't only destabilizing our economies—it's also a key reason why our governments have failed to come to grips with the climate crisis. If President Obama and the U.S. Congress are going to be serious about climate change, they need to start by rejecting the TPP.

Water is too precious and scarce to waste. Using drinking water to extract oil does not make any sense. We can not afford to waste a drop on non-essentials. This is an emergency and an emergency response is appropriate. Moratorium on water use for oil extraction insures we are securing the safety, health and well- being of essential water for the benefit of the community to the best of our ability. It is the right thing to do.

The oil spill caused by the negligence of Plains All American Pipeline has now reached as far as Sands Beach (near Isla Vista, CA). The beaches are now covered with oil, threatening the endangered snowy plover population, the wildlife and environmental study area in and around Devereaux Slough, and the overall health and well-being of our communities. The county should be reimbursed for all cleanup costs, wildlife deaths and injuries, damage to public health, and loss of tourism revenues, and it should take whatever steps are necessary to shut down oil drilling in this vulnerable and important area.

The spill of more than one hundred thousand gallons of oil in Santa Barbara is devastating, and is just another example of the significant impacts the oil and gas industry is having on California's environment and people. In the last few months it's been revealed that billions of gallons of oil industry waste water was pumped illegally into aquifers that hold water for drinking and agriculture; Water Defense also conducted testing that demonstrated that recycled oil wastewater was being used to irrigate crops in California's Kern County; and there have been increasing studies demonstrating that fracking and the disposal of fracking waste in injection wells is leading to earthquakes. Rather than continuing to allow the oil and gas industry to have its way with California, Governor Brown must take real action to protect California's water, air, health, beaches and the climate on which we all depend. Governor Brown recently signed a pact with leaders of several countries to set emissions targets for 2050, but we also need real action to protect California now. That's what real climate leadership would look like.