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!

As a born-and-raised Florida resident, I have not once been able to see a Florida panther in the wild, nor have I ever heard their population numbers were not in jeopardy. After looking more into this I found that the leading cause of panther deaths in Florida is being struck by vehicles. This fact alone is heartbreaking, but the proposed oil drill waste disposal well would bring with it hundreds of truck trips that could harass or kill endangered Florida panthers, pushing them even closer to the brink of extinction. We should not entertain any plan that might bring new toxic threats to these already beleaguered cats or the habitat they need to survive. The EPA can still intervene to stop the oil waste injection well and save Florida panthers, but it won't do so unless there's a massive public outcry.

Rather than discovering the future of energy, some within the coal industry spend a majority of their time donating to conservative, intolerant elected officials and bashing President Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency. Although Bob Murray, President of Murray Energy, has seen many die in his coal mines he refuses to acknowledge the dangers of coal mining and incineration, and instead chooses to cut down those who attempt to move the U.S. energy sector forward. If coal-fired power plants ran more efficiently they would burn less coal and emit less carbon dioxide. This field should be the focus of the coal industry, not demeaning agencies attempting to protect Americans from the effects of climate change. Coal mining jobs have been lost, not because of EPA rules, but because of mechanization. In 1951, the leaders of the United Mine Workers of American and the Bituminous Coal Operators Association lifted their opposition to the mechanization of the mining industry. In 1940, West Virginia employed 135,457 miners. In 1968, it was 41,573. Currently there are 22,786 West Virginians employed in coal mines. The job losses over the last 50 years are dwarfed by job losses during an era when the EPA did not exist.

Europe has already fought back against powerful chemical companies and took a big step to protect bees by putting into effect a ban of the top bee-killing “neonic” pesticides. Now it’s our turn! Join Friends of the Earth and our allies in demanding that the EPA take immediate action to protect bees! Bees are critical in producing the majority of our food crops and the evidence is mounting that Bayer and Syngenta’s pesticides are a key contributor to mass bee die-offs. However, the EPA continues to ignore scientists -- even those employed by the EPA -- and has delayed action until 2018. But the bees can’t wait -- and neither can we! U.S. beekeepers have been consistently losing 40-100 percent of their hives. This winter, beekeepers are likely facing yet another season of historic bee die offs. We can’t let the EPA wait another five years to address this crisis. Please take action today and tell the EPA to ban bee-killing pesticides.

Europe has already fought back against powerful chemical companies and took a big step to protect bees by putting into effect a ban of the top bee-killing “neonic” pesticides. Now it’s our turn! Join Friends of the Earth and our allies in demanding that the EPA take immediate action to protect bees! Bees are critical in producing the majority of our food crops and the evidence is mounting that Bayer and Syngenta’s pesticides are a key contributor to mass bee die-offs. However, the EPA continues to ignore scientists -- even those employed by the EPA -- and has delayed action until 2018. But the bees can’t wait -- and neither can we! U.S. beekeepers have been consistently losing 40-100 percent of their hives. This winter, beekeepers are likely facing yet another season of historic bee die offs. We can’t let the EPA wait another five years to address this crisis. Please take action today and tell the EPA to ban bee-killing pesticides.

Europe has already fought back against powerful chemical companies and took a big step to protect bees by putting into effect a ban of the top bee-killing “neonic” pesticides. Now it’s our turn! Join Friends of the Earth and our allies in demanding that the EPA take immediate action to protect bees! Bees are critical in producing the majority of our food crops and the evidence is mounting that Bayer and Syngenta’s pesticides are a key contributor to mass bee die-offs. However, the EPA continues to ignore scientists -- even those employed by the EPA -- and has delayed action until 2018. But the bees can’t wait -- and neither can we! U.S. beekeepers have been consistently losing 40-100 percent of their hives. This winter, beekeepers are likely facing yet another season of historic bee die offs. We can’t let the EPA wait another five years to address this crisis. Please take action today and tell the EPA to ban bee-killing pesticides.

Europe has already fought back against powerful chemical companies and took a big step to protect bees by putting into effect a ban of the top bee-killing “neonic” pesticides. Now it’s our turn! Join Friends of the Earth and our allies in demanding that the EPA take immediate action to protect bees! Bees are critical in producing the majority of our food crops and the evidence is mounting that Bayer and Syngenta’s pesticides are a key contributor to mass bee die-offs. However, the EPA continues to ignore scientists -- even those employed by the EPA -- and has delayed action until 2018. But the bees can’t wait -- and neither can we! U.S. beekeepers have been consistently losing 40-100 percent of their hives. This winter, beekeepers are likely facing yet another season of historic bee die offs. We can’t let the EPA wait another five years to address this crisis. Please take action today and tell the EPA to ban bee-killing pesticides.

Europe has already fought back against powerful chemical companies and took a big step to protect bees by putting into effect a ban of the top bee-killing “neonic” pesticides. Now it’s our turn! Join Friends of the Earth and our allies in demanding that the EPA take immediate action to protect bees! Bees are critical in producing the majority of our food crops and the evidence is mounting that Bayer and Syngenta’s pesticides are a key contributor to mass bee die-offs. However, the EPA continues to ignore scientists -- even those employed by the EPA -- and has delayed action until 2018. But the bees can’t wait -- and neither can we! U.S. beekeepers have been consistently losing 40-100 percent of their hives. This winter, beekeepers are likely facing yet another season of historic bee die offs. We can’t let the EPA wait another five years to address this crisis. Please take action today and tell the EPA to ban bee-killing pesticides.