This 46-acre woodlands is an important resource that should be preserved and protected.

PETITION TO ASK LOCAL, STATE, AND FEDERAL OFFICIALS TO OPPOSE KINDER MORGAN'S TENNESSEE GAS NORTHEAST ENERGY DIRECT PIPELINE PROJECT Kinder Morgan is proposing a new high pressure natural gas pipeline from Wright, NY to Dracut, MA. This pipeline creates the risk of chemical leaks and explosions that contaminate our soil, water and air, damage our property, and create hazards in our communities. Chemical off-gassing of known carcinogens, neurotoxins and endocrine disrupters happens at the compressor stations and drilling sites, and wherever pipelines are leaking. A recent study submitted to Governor Cuomo cited 41,000 leaks out of 70,000 welds and cement casing samples checked. The gas that will go through this pipeline is extracted using hydraulic fracturing (commonly known as fracking), which is now irrefutably linked to health problems because of the chemicals involved and the contamination to our underground water supplies. And when methane leaks from fracking, compressor stations, and transmission lines are taken into account, natural gas is far more polluting than coal or oil. Although it has been stated this pipeline is necessary to keep prices down and provide a bridge between older fossil fuels and future renewables, mounting evidence strongly suggests this is not true. Shortages could be corrected by fixing leaks in older pipeline and by increasing energy efficiency in homes and businesses. Both the Kinder Morgan website and their project pre-application letter state that some of the gas from this pipeline will be exported, which can raise our fuel prices like last winter when propane got sold overseas and U.S prices soared. Programs that provide jobs like Green Jobs Green NY, State programs that reduce energy use and provide free energy audits, and alternative energy sources like solar panels or wind make more economic and environmental sense than adding pipeline. Some of these programs provide tax credits and rebates, and some mortgage companies give lower interest rates to homes built or retrofitted with energy efficient components. Therefore, we the undersigned, realizing the risks and costs to our families, our property values, our safety, our drinking water, our clean air, our roads, and the potential costs and stresses to our towns that will be created by the Kinder Morgan Tennessee Gas Northeast Energy Direct Pipeline Project—which will be using fracked shale gas—do hereby state that it is our desire for our federal, state, county, and town leaders to immediately and permanently declare on our behalf that no new or additional high pressure gas pipelines of any kind shall be placed within the boundaries of our towns. Signed, the following residents:

Everywhere fracking is happening, from Texas to Colorado to Pennsylvania, the health of people is suffering -- from children with unexplained nosebleeds, to babies born with birth defects, to workers sickened by exposure to toxic, tiny silica particles. In Maryland, we don’t have fracking -- for now. And we need to speak out now to keep it that way. A three-year fracking review process that Governor Martin O’Malley put in place in 2011 is set to conclude in the next few months, potentially leaving Marylanders with no protections against drilling. In mid-August, as part of this process, the O’Malley administration released a study on the potential health impacts of fracking in Maryland, triggering a public comment period through October 3rd. Among many significant dangers, the report warns that fracking is highly likely to harm Marylanders’ air quality -- exposing people to toxins linked to cancer, birth defects, and respiratory illnesses. Rushed and underfunded, the study also leaves many critical questions about the risks to our health unanswered. Join us in calling on Governor O'Malley to protect our health by keeping Maryland's fracking moratorium in place. Let’s make sure this message is heard loud and clear: If fracking were to start in Maryland now, we’d be the next guinea pigs for testing the industry’s impacts on people, and that’s wholly unacceptable. Sign the petition by the October 3rd deadline!

25 million Americans are in danger from exploding oil trains. Last month — after a record year of unsafe oil trains derailing, spilling, and exploding across the country — President Obama proposed new regulations for unsafe tank cars. But shockingly, these new rules actually protect industry profits while sacrificing public safety and the health of our air and water.

In February, the Los Angeles City Council voted historically in 10-0 vote to draft new rules to stop fracking and toxic drilling techniques in Los Angeles - BUT now we need to officially adopt the law! Fracking and other extreme oil-production methods in Los Angeles and Orange County use dangerous chemicals, including known carcinogens and toxins that are linked to birth defects, developmental problems in children, and can cause harm to the heart, liver, brain, immune, and respiratory systems. Governor Brown has failed to protect Californians. Last year he signed a bad bill into law that will green-light more fracking in our state and could allow oil and gas companies to bypass basic environmental review. Since Governor Brown has failed to act, cities like Los Angeles are stepping up to protect residents. Across the city, we are already seeing health impacts, property damage and dangerous blowouts. L.A. residents are in the line of fire when it comes to fracking and the hazardous activities related to it and the oil industry is working to bring a massive opposition to the next fracking vote. Your Councilmembers need to hear from you now. Sign the petition to tell L.A. City Councilmembers and Mayor Garcetti to support the motion to pass a moratorium on fracking in L.A.

Everyone will be personally affected by this.

Enbridge, the company responsible for the biggest inland oil spill in American history in the Kalamazoo River, has been trying to expand their Clipper pipeline and double the amount of tar sands shipped through the Great Lakes. But since the pipeline crosses the Canadian border, the new construction needs a permit from the State Department. But in an effort to avoid a public review they're instead adding new Clipper pipe on both sides of the border, and then a few miles out on either side, switching the tar sands over to a different pipeline that is already built, running the tar for a few miles across the border from Canada to the US, and then switching it back to the Clipper pipe to continue to the Great Lakes. Enbridge quietly sent this plan to State, and someone in the bureaucracy quietly wrote them back and said, basically, ‘yup, looks fine to me.’ One of two things could be happening here: One, a mid level bureaucrat has gone rogue, and is approving pipelines across the border with essentially no review or oversight from his bosses. That's bad. But the other option is worse: the State Department leadership has deliberately blown a loophole in federal law big enough to pass a tar sands pipeline through, completely invalidating President Obama's pledge to reject Keystone XL if it significantly impacts the climate. Send the State Department a message that this is unacceptable and blow this scheme wide open.

Everyday, millions of Americans, particularly in communities of color and low-income communities, face danger from hazardous waste recycling and reclamation. The Bush administration exempted thousands of these facilities—predominantly located in the nation’s most vulnerable communities—from safety requirements mandated under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. The safeguards protect all Americans from exposure to toxic chemicals, and with your help can be reinstated by a new EPA rule under review by the Office of Management and Budget. Tell President Obama to protect those living just miles or even yards away from refineries, scrap metal yards, chemical plants, smelters, battery recyclers, mines and other facilities that reclaim and recycle hazardous waste. Ask the President to finalize the rule proposed by EPA to reinstate safeguards against dangerous recycling of hazardous waste. The 90-day review period has passed. Now it’s time for the EPA to act. Please ask President Obama to finalize a rule so strong that it doesn’t just change lives, but saves them.

The Obama Administration has launched a new initiative protect bees and other pollinators and try to prevent the recent bee die-offs. It also provides funding to create new bee habitats in five states. But this effort falls far short of what's needed. The plan fails to take definitive action on neonicotinoid pesticides -- a key factor contributing to the bee die-offs and one they could do something about now. Tell President Obama he needs to take strong and immediate action to save bees and ban bee-killing pesticides now!

The Obama Administration has launched a new initiative protect bees and other pollinators and try to prevent the recent bee die-offs. It also provides funding to create new bee habitats in five states. But this effort falls far short of what's needed. The plan fails to take definitive action on neonicotinoid pesticides -- a key factor contributing to the bee die-offs and one they could do something about now. Tell President Obama he needs to take strong and immediate action to save bees and ban bee-killing pesticides now!

SB 270 will greatly reduce the harmful impacts caused by plastic bags. It's on Governor Brown's desk and awaiting his signature. -An estimated 10 billion single use bags are used annually in California alone; -Up to $107 million is spent annually to curb pollution associated with plastic bags; -Southern California cities spent more than $1.7 billion to meet Total Maximum Daily Load for trashed waterways; and -Plastic bags have adversely impacted California's $40 billion ocean industry, with grave impacts to over 267 critical species including birds and fish Plastic bags are wasteful, bad for the environment and bad for the economy.

This is the statement of Abigail, Elizabeth, Patrick, Mike, and Jackie: We, the people of Washington state, are under serious threat from fossil fuels and coal and oil trains. Not only are our railway workers at risk from dangerous working conditions, long hours, and proposed, deadly single person crews – We are all at risk from oil train explosions, coal dust pollution, derailments, Puget Sound acidification, and the devastation of global warming. These are not empty words. Puget Sound salmon are being caught with skin peeling off. The shellfish industry is being forced out. The Sound, a region with high fossil fuel pollution, has four of the state’s five highest cancer rate counties – Whatcom, Pierce, Snohomish and Skagit. Climate disruption is coming home. This year our state has been hit with record fires driven by drought and deadly mudslides triggered by intense downpours. Our water security and jobs are at risk from loss of snowpack on which forests, farms and cities depend in warm months, and from fossil train spills. To avert climate catastrophe most fossil fuels must remain in the ground. Instead, production and shipping of the dirtiest fuels such as coal and shale oil are growing. Moving rapidly to a fossil-fuel-free Washington is not a choice, it is a societal imperative. Therefore, we demand that Governor Inslee enact an immediate moratorium on all fossil fuel trains and deny permits for all coal and oil shipping facilities. The time to act is now. Please sign our petition to show your support for these demands and for making Washington fossil-fuel free. Fossil fuel impacts intensify: • 2012 – Puget Sound acidification forces Taylor Shellfish to move hatchery facilities to Hawaii. • March 22, 2014 – Intense downpours trigger Oso landslide killing 43 people. • July 24, 2014 – Oil train with nearly 100 tanker cars derails under Magnolia Bridge in Interbay Seattle. • July 2014 – Carlton fire burns 251,000 acres, the largest wildfire in Washington history. President Obama declares federal disaster. • August 2014 – Downpour-caused mudslides, strike area scorched by fire, closed highways and stranded motorists. • August 19, 2014 – Drought covers 40% of Washington state.