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.

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.