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.

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