Rhode Island's legislative session ends this week. Environmentalists have already won exciting victories to expand solar energy, implement first steps of a state composting program, fund public transportation, and more. However, there are some final bills that need final approval. One of them is a critical bill to protect Narragansett Bay by finally phasing out cesspools, an outdated septic method that pollutes the environment.

Why is a home improvement store interested in spreading climate change denial propaganda? The store itself sells things to make homes more energy efficient (doors, windows, insulation, even solar panels), and should be capitalizing on the "green movement", so the only possible explanation is the owner trying to protect his personal investments in fossil fuels. I work part time at the country's third largest home improvement retailer, Menards. We receive a monthly newsletter called, "Menards Memos." The current issue features a climate change denial article, and when I saw it, my jaw dropped in disbelief. (This is the article reprinted in the newsletter: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/04/17/chicken-little-science/ ) I've posted this petition anonymously because I fear retaliation for speaking out, but It isn't right to use power and influence to force personal opinions on employees and try to protect polluting industries for personal profit. As a citizen, I am angered that people spread misinformation that harms our health and the environment just to hoard more money. As an employee, I'm confused as to why you would support misleading information that fights against many of the efficiency improving products we sell.

Rhode Island's legislative session ends this week. Environmentalists have already won exciting victories to expand solar energy, implement first steps of a state composting program, fund public transportation, and more. However, there are some final bills that have passed in the Senate but still need final approval in the House. One of them is a critical bill to protect Narragansett Bay by finally phasing out cesspools, an outdated septic method that pollutes the environment.

The monarch butterfly is in serious trouble. The spread of GMO crops and accompanying pesticides have been wiping out the young monarch's key food source, milkweed. But you can help! Add your name to our petition calling on the EPA and USDA to stop approving pesticide-resistant genetically engineered crops and to instead promote non-toxic pest and weed management to the benefit of farmers, our health, our ecosystems and the precious monarch butterfly.

The monarch butterfly is in serious trouble. The spread of GMO crops and accompanying pesticides have been wiping out the young monarch's key food source, milkweed. But you can help! Add your name to our petition calling on the EPA and USDA to stop approving pesticide-resistant genetically engineered crops and to instead promote non-toxic pest and weed management to the benefit of farmers, our health, our ecosystems and the precious monarch butterfly.

Plastic bags are detrimental to the environment. Sign the petition for your children or grandchildren, who may want to swim in the ocean one day, or eat seafood. Here are the facts: • About 1 million plastic bags are used every minute. • A single plastic bag can take up to 1,000 years to degrade. • More than 3.5 million tons of plastic bags, sacks and wraps were discarded in 2008. • The U.S. goes through 100 billion single-use plastic bags. This costs retailers about $4 billion a year. • Plastic bags are the second-most common type of ocean refuse, after cigarette butts (2008) • Plastic bags remain toxic even after they break down. • Every square mile of ocean has about 46,000 pieces of plastic floating in it. Saint Paul has adopted a ZERO WASTE goal by the year 2020. This Goal cannot be achieved without banning single use plastic bags. Please Sign Now!

The monarch butterfly is in serious trouble. The spread of GMO crops and accompanying pesticides have been wiping out the young monarch's key food source, milkweed. But you can help! Add your name to our petition calling on the EPA and USDA to stop approving pesticide-resistant genetically engineered crops and to instead promote non-toxic pest and weed management to the benefit of farmers, our health, our ecosystems and the precious monarch butterfly.

The monarch butterfly is in serious trouble. The spread of GMO crops and accompanying pesticides have been wiping out the young monarch's key food source, milkweed. But you can help! Add your name to our petition calling on the EPA and USDA to stop approving pesticide-resistant genetically engineered crops and to instead promote non-toxic pest and weed management to the benefit of farmers, our health, our ecosystems and the precious monarch butterfly.

The monarch butterfly is in serious trouble. The spread of GMO crops and accompanying pesticides have been wiping out the young monarch's key food source, milkweed. But you can help! Add your name to our petition calling on the EPA and USDA to stop approving pesticide-resistant genetically engineered crops and to instead promote non-toxic pest and weed management to the benefit of farmers, our health, our ecosystems and the precious monarch butterfly.

To expedite clean up action on Kirkwood Lake.

To stop the fogging of pesticides over and over every summer.

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.