History has shown that the potential exists for unplanned "incidents" to occur at or within Nuclear Power Plants. Fukushima, Three Mile Island and Chernobyl are just 3 examples of when the best intentions can go wrong. The results of such an unplanned "incident" can be catastrophic and long lasting. Given the proximity of Turkey Point to the major population centers of South Florida, it's close location to the unique and environmentally sensitive Everglades and it's coastal location potentially exposing it to the effects of rising sea levels, The Turkey Point Nuclear Power plant exposes the population and natural environment of South Florida to unintended, but nevertheless, extraordinary risk. Given the advent of viable and relatively benign alternative power generating technologies, I do not believe the benefits of Nuclear Power any longer outweigh the risks to the people and environment of South Florida. I respectfully request Florida Power and Light immediately withdraw its application to the NRC for these two new Nuclear Power Plants at Turkey Point and the associated High Voltage electrical distribution network planned to traverse South Florida. Please sign this Petition.

The Badger-Two Medicine is important to Montanans, locally and throughout the region, as a place to sustain cultural traditions, hunt, fish, hike and admire. Pristine and ancient, home to original flora and fauna, the Badger-Two Medicine is a treasure. There have been tremendous accomplishments achieved in the campaign to protect this landscape. But it is still vulnerable. Oil and gas developers, motorcycles and ATVs all threaten to scar “The Badger” permanently. By signing this petition, you are supporting the protection of the Badger-Two Medicine from extractive, industrial and motorized threats. As the community of caring people willing to stand together grows, so does the promise of protection for this culturally - and ecologically - irreplaceable wild land.

“A problem so serious that it threatens the achievements of modern medicine.” This quote comes straight from the World Health Organization, which just released the disturbing results of a worldwide survey of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Their findings were the latest in a string of increasingly dire warnings from the public health community: Because of overuse and misuse, the lifesaving antibiotics we depend on are rapidly losing their effectiveness against dangerous infections. We're now in danger of returning to an age when simple infections are potentially fatal. Our decision-makers need to hear from the public, and it needs to happen quickly. That’s why OSPIRG and our national federation have launched a campaign to stop the overuse of antibiotics where the problem is the worst -- on factory farms that mix antibiotics right into the feed of healthy animals. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has the authority to stop the worst overuse of antibiotics on factory farms. Please join us in calling on the FDA to act now.

The fossil fuel industry is rising up against the strongest limits ever proposed to end the worst climate change polluter: dirty coal plants. But, the industry doesn’t have the public’s support. We do. Dirty power plants are the single largest source of carbon pollution that is driving climate change. Right now, these plants are dumping as much carbon as they want into the atmosphere, and we and our children are stuck with the costs. It's time to adopt common sense limits on carbon pollution from power plants. Tell the EPA you support these limits on carbon pollution and to make them as strong as possible. The polluters and their allies will be doing everything they can to stop it. So let’s give this everything we can.

I am concerned about the potential for ground water contamination and the undisclosed possible effect of the toxic chemicals used in fracking.

like so many issues of health and wellness, this one primarily affects the very young and very old - those whose physical constitutions [their bodies] are not yet fully formed or already beginning to decline. that said, in the same way we all need clean air and water - we all need clean foods.

For years, Navy sonar has been killing whales and dolphins on coastlines around the world, including the United States, the Bahamas, the Canary Islands, and Greece. Now it’s happened again! In April, beaked whales mass-stranded and died during U.S. Navy joint exercise offshore of Crete – the 4th time that sonar trainings have caused catastrophic strandings in these same waters. The killing must stop! A year and a half ago, more than half a million of us joined our voices in protest by signing a petition to deny the Navy permits for expanded sonar and explosives exercises in whale habitats off U.S. coastlines. The U.S. Fisheries department rubber-stamped the Navy’s request and issued the permits anyway. Now it time for us to go directly to the top of the command chain and demand that the President invoke his constitutional powers to stop this senseless slaughter. Article 2 of the U.S. Constitution gives the President, as Commander-in-Chief, direct command over the army and the navy, as well as responsibility for "taking care that the laws are faithfully executed." With a stroke of his pen, by Executive Order, the President can direct his Secretary of the Navy to cease all sonar training in whale habitats. And he can direct the head of National Marine Fisheries Service, the federal agency charged with enforcing the laws intended to protect whales, to revoke the Navy’s permits to conduct sonar trainings until it puts real safety measures in place. The Navy has reluctantly agreed to conduct comprehensive Environmental Impact Statements on all its U.S. coastal ranges – but not on foreign ranges where it trains. That’s why tragedies like the mass stranding in Crete are doomed to be repeated – unless you and I take action and convince the President to end the U.S. Navy's war on whales and dolphins, once and for all! I promise to print out every petition and personally deliver them to the White House. For more information, please visit our website at http://whaleanddolphinwatch.org/

Monsanto and Roundup contain poisons that are effecting your health. Monsanto has taken over the food industry and putting small organic farmers out of business.

We are Save Our Sandy, which is also our battle cry! We are in a fight to preserve what has existed in rural Marshall County, Illinois for generations. We live along Sandy Creek, where our pioneer ancestors settled after looking for clean water, trees for their cabins, and grass for their livestock. Now a mega hog factory wants to locate next to our beloved creek, and next to us. Their plan is to house nearly 20,000 hogs in three huge buildings, storing the animal waste in deep concrete pits below the hogs. We are devastated by the news. Our fears are many because the environmental track record of hog factories is poor. Many hog factories have been prosecuted for polluting nearby streams. Hog waste contains antibiotic-resistant superbugs and harmful gases. The fumes travel several miles downwind. The proposed hog factory will produce an incomprehensible 10 million gallons of waste annually. We will be unable to enjoy the outdoors or keep our windows open. Our homes will be extremely difficult to sell, losing much of their value. Our county board is against this hog factory, but the decision is not in our community’s hands. Changes to the Livestock Management Facilities Act need to be made so neighbors like Save Our Sandy are protected.

People are growing increasingly aware of the environmental hazards of plastic water bottles; it's time to take it a step further and challenge large corporations to further reduce plastic use and consumption by switching to biodegradable choices where they exist. Starbucks and its subsidiary companies should be leading the change on reducing their environmental impacts by using biodegradable and green to-go products. Further use of single-life plastics is contributing to the global trash epidemic; which is leaving our oceans and lands littered with plastic, creating health hazards and endangering many animal populations.

For a long time I have witnessed the flybys that leave chemicals. These chemicals sit in the sky and spread out and as a result the morning blue sky turns grey. We need our sun. You are killing this planet. Why? You make claims that other countries have weapons of mass destruction. My view is this is the greatest weapon of mass destruction.

According to National Geographic explorer-in-residence Enric Sala, "It's the closest thing I've seen to the pristine ocean." Tuna are in trouble and have been unable to get protection. The loss to the U.S. tuna fleet will only be 3%. And sport fishing removes the largest specimens that tend to be the last breeding stock for the future. Along with no energy exploration, there must also be no extraction of fish. Joey Racano, Director www.OceanOutfallGroup.com On Facebook: Ocean Outfall Group