Fracking has already caused serious damage to our public lands, particularly in the areas that serve to buffer America’s most precious national parks and monuments. By the end of 2014, oil and gas companies had leases on over 34 million acres of public land, and over 200 million more acres are currently being targeted for drilling.

 No amount of regulation will protect us or our public lands from the impacts of fracking. Regulated fracking still results in harm to people's health, accidental spills of toxic waste, air pollution, earthquakes, drinking water contamination, habitat destruction and worsening climate change. The only way to protect ourselves and our land from the risks of fracking is to ban it altogether. Preventing fracking on federal lands is essential to safeguarding our drinking water and public and environmental health, as well as iconic places in American history and culture. It is also essential in any serious proposal to address global warming.

 Representative Mark Pocan (WI-2) recently re-introduced his legislation to ban fracking on all public lands — and it remains the strongest piece of federal legislation against fracking to date. Please ask your members of Congress to support and co-sponsor the bill to ban fracking on public lands.

We are having daily earthquakes in Oklahoma caused by fracking. This must stop.

The letter attacking Dr. Oz is not from the Columbia faculty. It's from ten physicians, all of whom have industry ties. What it's really about is that the industry is furious that he has taken on genetically modified crops. So you basically have industry henchmen who are after Dr. Oz here. One of them in fact, the head of the American Council on Science and Health, spent some time in federal prison for Medicaid fraud. These groups are called "astroturf groups." That is, they appear to be grassroots groups representing real consumers, but, in fact, they are the henchmen of industry here, and that's what you're looking at with this letter. The media often gets swept up by this; they say, "this is a great story." They get swept up by it, they report it, but they don't look at who wrote that letter.

California is in a severe crippling drought. Instead of building a dirty oil pipeline from Canada to Texas, that will only benefit billionaires while destroying our air, water and environment, let's build a CLEAN water pipeline from the water logged states of Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, etc. to California. The farmlands here feed the nation. This will provide jobs, food and water for the fertile lands of California.

The Friedman Memorial Airport Authority (FMAA) Board is in the process of considering alternatives to their Master Plan which include expanding the airport outside of its current boundary and moving Highway 75 closer to homes—also setting the stage for larger, more intrusive, projects. Future projects are not necessary, and if approved by the FMAA board, projects such as Alternative 7, 5, and 4, would negatively impact the residents of Hailey, Bellevue, and those living in the Bellevue Triangle with increased noise and air pollution. Specifically and of immediate concern, within the draft of FMAA's Master Plan which is currently under consideration is Alternative 7. Alternative 7 would allow airport expansion outside of its current boundary in order to build more aircraft parking spaces, relocate Highway 75 further to the east and closer to the homes and bicycle trail in Hailey's Woodside subdivision, and sets the "basis for future facility configuration planning and subsequent chapters of [the] master plan." FMAA's support of Alternative 7 is being presented as solving the issues caused by the 2014 and 2015 projects which relocated the taxiway. However, by allowing Alternative 7 to be included in the Master Plan the floodgate for future expansion projects will open which will have the effect of delaying, perhaps stopping, airport relocation. If Alternative 7 is accepted into FMAA's Master Plan, other alternatives like Alternative 4 and Alternative 5 could see a resurgence in consideration. Alternative 4 calls for the ranch land between Bellevue and the Airport (west of Highway 75) to be annexed into airport property and relocates the entire runway to this parcel; Alternative 4 poses the very real threat of condemning Bellevue's Chantrelle neighborhood due to intolerable decibel levels caused by aircraft. Alternative 5 would expand the current runway further south into a portion of this same ranch land in order to accommodate a longer runway/larger aircraft. The construction projects of 2014 and 2015 are nearly finished and, once completed this Fall, will have addressed the concerns of the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA). Now is the time for the citizens of the Wood River Valley to speak up and insist on a fundamental shift in decision making regarding the future of Friedman Memorial Airport. What with Friedman Memorial Airport on the verge of appeasing the FAA with the completion of taxiway, terminal, and air operations building projects--the inadequacies which still plague this airport (lack of parking, the poorly placed control tower, length of runway too short for large jets, etc) must be used as reasons for relocation—not as reasons for additional investment. By signing this petition, you agree that future changes (especially Alternative 7) to Friedman Memorial Airport are not necessary and would be contrary to moving this airport to a new location. You agree that Friedman Memorial Airport must stay within its current boundary and, synonymously, that Alternative 7 be kept out of Friedman Memorial Airport's Master Plan. Please sign this petition and tell the Friedman Memorial Airport Authority Board, the Blaine County Commissioners, and the City of Hailey, that you do not want Friedman Memorial Airport to expand outside of its current boundary.

I remember some of the best times of my childhood were spent swimming and hiking at our state parks. Now our state is considering closing them. I want to preserve them so that future generations can enjoy nature as I have.

I do not believe that state land should be sold and used as a limestone mining place.

The Distributed Wind Energy Association (DWEA) is pursuing legislation in the current Colorado legislative session both to establish credits for rural renewable energy gardens and to create a refundable income tax credit for small wind (please see separate sign-on at: http://distributedwind.org/take-action/state/support-colorado-refundable-income-tax-credit-for-small-wind/) New provisions are needed to allow rural cooperative electric associations (co-ops) to use the production from shared wind and other facilities to meet their retail distributed generation requirements under Colorado's renewable energy standard. Subscribers of the shared facilities must be members of the co-op in whose service territory the facility is located, and the renewable energy credits must be allocated to a physical address within that service territory. Distributed generation (DG) systems help diversify our energy supply and relieve some of the burden on energy producers during peak energy times in the summer and winter. Rural DG systems also avoid expensive transmission upgrades and projects that increase costs for all ratepayers. Coloradoans unable install their own wind turbines (i.e. renters and people in low wind areas), can help increase the amount of wind power in Colorado if co-ops are encouraged to allow shared investments in local wind projects. Similar community renewable initiatives are underway in several states from New York to Oregon that engage diverse communities and create accessible pathways to clean energy ownership. Note: If appropriate, please include your company name together with your name or in the comment field.

Exposure to toxic chemicals and radioactive waste is harming the health of communities exposed to fracking and laying waste to prime agricultural regions, where food is grown. Water is contaminated and air is polluted with VOC, BETX gases and PM. Earthquakes are damaging real estate and the corporations responsible are not being held liable!

Governor Walker is using the budget deficit as justification to eliminate scientists from the Wisconsin DNR staff. This will make it very difficult, if not impossible, for Wisconsin to deal effectively with problems such as global climate change, nutrient overloading in lakes and rivers, and chronic wasting disease in whitetail deer. The elimination of the scientist bureau from the DNR seems to be consistent with Walker's overall attack on science.

We are a 4th grade class in Seattle, Washington. We are petitioning Dow Constantine, King County Executive, to give enough money for the Duwamish River to be clean enough for the tribes and other citizens to be able to fish safely, because the Duwamish River is one of the most polluted rivers in the US and the only river in Seattle. The Duwamish River is affecting people’s health. Residents who live closer to the river die 13 years younger than others who live in Laurelhurst. As a matter of fact, there are three tribes that eat fish from the river. It's in the tribes' culture to fish in the Duwamish and we shouldn't take that away from them. So we want King County to give enough money so that people can know it is OK to eat the fish without the risk of getting really sick. The EPA has already released a $342 million, 17 year-long cleanup plan to help. However, it is not removing enough toxins so that locals can fish from the Duwamish safely. Although it will cost King County a lot of money and time, people and animals around the Duwamish will be saved. There are 3 things that you can do to help: 1. sign this petition, 2. spread the word about this problem, and 3. share this petition with others. Our goal is 3,000 signatures by June 1, 2015. June 2 we will be holding a protest and presenting our petition signatures. If you sign it, it will really make a difference to the people and animals that live or fish in the Duwamish River. UPDATE (6/5/15): Guess what happened after our march on 6/2/15 for the Duwamish River? We met with Dow Constantine and talked to him about the problem and some possible solutions. After our discussion about the Duwamish River, we asked him to sign the petition and he did! Dow told us he supports cleaning up the Duwamish River and said that he already has his own plan: the Green-Duwamish River Watershed Cleanup Plan that cleans the area around the Duwamish. As of June 3, 2015, we had a total 2798 petition signatures (719 paper and 2079 online). All of them were collected in just 5 weeks, with people from 8 countries and 38 states!. Although we succeeded with getting Dow Constantine to sign our petition, we still have other PRP’s (Potentially Responsible Parties) to convince. The EPA has identified over 100 PRP’s, but the 4 major ones are King County, Port of Seattle, Boeing and City of Seattle. If you keep showing support and help get these other PRP’s to join in their support, we will achieve our goal. We will share our petition results with all four PRP’s. From, Miss Margie’s 4th grade class

Your favorite flower might be hiding a dirty secret. Neonicotinoids, a highly toxic class of pesticide, are widely used on plants sold by major retailers like True Value and Ace. These pesticides are responsible for killing millions of bees and can have a devastating effect on human health. “Neonics” have been linked to a number of developmental problems, including brain and nervous system functions. Europe has already banned these pesticides because of their problematic nature. It’s time for us to let major retailers, like True Value and Ace know we won’t continue to support their use of neonicotinoids.