For over thirty years, the public has had the right under federal law to access information (called Tier II reports) about facilities which store dangerous chemicals, including emergency response plans. But Attorney General Greg Abbott recently ruled that this information will now be treated as confidential and largely inaccessible to the public and media. The tragic explosion of the fertilizer plant in West, Texas last year reminded us of the very real dangers posed by hazardous chemicals. The media and the public needs more information, not less, about these facilities in order to protect our communities.

On June 15, 2014, the Associated Press reported that Texas' regulator of the oil and gas industry, the Railroad Commission, has adopted a policy to prevent its staff from doing media interviews. Instead, media may only speak with the commission's PR staff. Oil and gas production has contributed to air and water pollution, reduced property values and perhaps even earthquakes. With so much at stake, it's critical that the media be able to speak with the taxpayer-funded staff responsible for regulating the oil and gas industry.

Because as with drilling for oil, strip mining for coal, nuclear energy, fracking is so misguided and based on short-sighted greed and in no way benefits our planet and life on it.

Because as with drilling for oil, strip mining for coal, nuclear energy, tracking is so misguided and based on short-sighted greed and in no way benefits our planet and life on it.

People should be concerned about this because this is our community and this filth not only brings the property value down but can become the cause of spreading infection, germs, and bacteria which is a health risk to our civilians. By January 2015 we need this to change for a cleaner and safer community. Our police precinct sets in the middle of skid row surrounded by a pile up of trash. Our city officials should be ashamed of themselves for letting this continue.

In April of 2013, planes began flying over my northern California home, turning our blue sky into a white haze. As I began to research and connect with others, I learned that this aerosolized spraying is happening not only over all areas of the United States, but that it is happening in many other countries as well. I also learned that it has been happening for many years in some areas. Initially, the spraying we experienced here severely affected my health. It continues to cause breathing problems for my children and for me. I care about ALL of the children of this world and I believe they deserve better than what our government is doing. Solar Radiation Management (SRM) is a geoengineering technique being "proposed" by scientists to slow down global warming by dimming the sun. Clearly, however, it is out of the "proposed" stage and is already under full-scale implementation. SRM is not an answer to climate change. It will benefit fossil fuel companies that want to continue with business as usual, and it will benefit chemical companies and big pharmaceutical companies, but it is destructive to the health of people, animals, and the environment. And cooling the planet by dimming the sun in a haze of intentional pollution is shrouding the grave issue of ocean acidification. The children of this planet will inherit this mess and the health and environmental issues it creates. We can do better.

The old growth redwood trees in Armstrong Redwoods State Natural Reserve are endangered by a proposed water system project from The California Department of Parks and Recreation. The plans will disrupt the ancient and delicate root system of thousands of years old growth redwoods, to pump millions of gallons of water per year for the humans that use the park! The trees cannot handle the loss of water nor the huge physical damage that would occur with the use of heavy equipment within it. Although public pressure has managed to postpone the project until September of 2015, a united stand against it is the only way to kill the plans all together.

BECAUSE I CARE ABOUT THE FUTURE FOR MY CHILDREN AND THIER CHILDREN!! ONE EARTH! ONE PLACE TO LIVE!!!

Here are many reasons for you to sign this petition: We the people spoke in 2010 and defeated Proposition 16 that PG&E spent $46 million on in an attempt to kill their small but growing competition. Now they’re back, with another stealth attempt to kill the competition with a bill in the legislature called AB 2145, which was introduced by Steve Bradford, a former executive of Southern California Edison, one of the profit-centered utility monopolies. The legislature passed a law in 2002 authorizing Community Choice Energy programs, which provide competition to California’s three profit-centered utility monopolies: Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), Southern California Edison, and San Diego Gas & Electric. Marin County has had one of these competitive programs up and running since 2010, saving their homes and businesses nearly $6 million just in 2014. Sonoma County is just coming on line with one of these Community Choice Energy programs, and citizens of other cities and counties are working toward one, including the cities of San Francisco, Lancaster and San Diego, and Alameda County and several others. Besides providing competition–which, after all, is the American Way–the Community Choice Energy programs benefit consumers in many ways: > reduce global warming generated by fossil fuel power plants > give control to their communities, rather than the profit-centered monopolies > encourage sourcing of power from renewable resources such as wind and sun > enable a new local cottage industry of rooftop solar generation by actually paying homeowners and small businesses who generate more electricity than they use. PG&E has rarely if ever paid for such excess generation > provide more dependable electricity because it comes from numerous local installations rather than via wasteful high-voltage lines carrying power from huge distant fossil fuel plants > provide a vehicle which allows many homeowners and small businesses to join together to get a better deal on rooftop solar installations > by providing the vehicle for homeowners and small businesses to join together, Community Choice programs can stipulate that solar installations will be by workers who are unionized and local > homeowners and small businesses who want to stay with the profit-centered monopoly receive numerous notices telling them how to do that by “opting out” > generally save homeowners and small businesses money on their electric bills

After doing my own research on why food was making me sick , and severe allergies climbing in children I found out that the Pesticides used have been causing us all to get very sick as well as the GM food. I woke up yesterday morning to find out my lovely Organic Garden had been contaminated by the spraying of Roundup in the early morning hours. I am no longer willing to wait for the world to stop and see what is going on, I am going to help spread the word and make my town a safer place for all our children and grandchildren (hopefully!).

BECAUSE I THINK PEOPLE NEED TO RESOLVE PROBLEMS. THEY WANT FRACKING, PUT IT IN THEIR HOME AREAS. OTHERS DON'T, SO TAKE IT AWAY FROM THEIR HOME AREAS.

The Obama administration is on the verge of approving a major fracked gas disaster -- and we need your voice now to stop it. The gas industry wants to build a massive export terminal at Cove Point, on the Chesapeake Bay in southern Maryland, that would take gas from fracking wells across Appalachia, liquefy it and ship it to Asia. This plan would trigger a huge expansion of toxic fracking. The process of exporting fracked and liquefied natural gas is so dirty that it pollutes the climate as much as burning coal! Yet, on May 15, President Obama's Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) released a draft Environmental Assessment for the Cove Point project that sweeps all major dangers under the rug. In other words, FERC is paving the way for the gas industry to make bigger profits -- instead of protecting our health, safety and climate. Now it's our turn to speak out. FERC is accepting public input on its draft environmental review until Monday, June 16th. From increased fracking and pipelines, to worsening climate pollution and safety risks to nearby Maryland residents, we know a massive fracked gas export facility on the Chesapeake Bay is NOT in the public interest. Join with activists across the nation saying “no” to fracked gas exports, and submit your comment today!