Fracking and extreme oil extraction techniques like acidizing are taking place in and around Brea. These wells pose a direct threat to the safety and well-being of Brea residents. There are currently at least 24 cases of fracking and acidizing within Brea’s sphere of influence. The City of Brea owns fracking wells that are located just outside the Olinda Elementary School and near the new Sports Complex. There are more fracking wells in the Blackstone and Olinda Ranch Neighborhoods within a few feet of people’s homes. Fracking is the process of injecting millions of gallons of water, sand, and tens of thousands of gallons of known toxic chemicals deep underground at extremely high pressures to blast open rock formation. This allows hard to reach oil and gas to flow more freely. Acidization is the process of using hydrochloric and hydrofluoric acid to stimulate wells as they melt rock layers that allow oil and gas to flow more freely. Hydrochloric and hydrochloric acid are air toxins that can cause illness and even fatalities if exposure is high enough. Less is known about acidization because it is a newer technique and mainly employed in California, but fracking has a horrendous track record. Fracking has been linked to over 1,000 cases of water contamination including groundwater contamination in 4 states, increases in air pollution and smog, and finally fracking practices and waste disposal wells have been linked to earthquakes as large as a 5.7 in Oklahoma. Fracking is also exempt from the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and Safe Drinking Water Act making it impossible to hold the Oil & Gas Industry accountable to public health and the environment. With the passing of SB4, the statewide fracking regulations bill, we still don’t have enough protections to ensure that the public health and environment will be safe from fracking. SB4 only requires the notification of fracking and disclosure of chemicals. It does nothing to protect ensure that fracking is safe for communities of the environment. This is why we need to take local action to ensure the safety and well-being of Brea residents. This petition calls on the City of Brea to shut down their dangerous wells near schools and homes and to enact a permanent ban on all extreme and unconventional extraction methods as well as waste water injections wells within Brea City Limits.

I am starting this petition because I feel the people of this country as well as the people of our world need to know the truth about what is really going on. For our sake and the sake of our children......We deserve to have full disclosure in this matter.

At the beginning of the year, Rhode Island lawmakers took up consideration of a bill to ban plastic shopping bags statewide. This should be a no-brainer: banning plastic bags would be a huge victory for Narragansett Bay and its wildlife by eliminating a major source of marine trash. That's why we can’t believe top state lawmakers haven’t yet scheduled this for a vote. Send a message showing Rhode Island’s top leaders, as well as your own state rep and senator, where you stand.

Expanding solar in Rhode Island will bring widespread benefits for our health, our economy, and the environment. State lawmakers are moving forward to quintuple Rhode Island's cornerstone renewable energy program with a bill sponsored by State Rep. Ruggiero (Jamestown) and State Sen. Sosnowski (S. Kingstown). But in the busiest time of year at the State House, we need to make sure this doesn’t fall by the wayside. Take action to send a message to your senator, your representative, and the governor.

We're in danger of returning to an age when simple infections are potentially fatal. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, every year more than two million people are hospitalized and 23,000 die because they have been infected with antibiotic-resistant bacteria. The overuse and misuse of lifesaving antibiotics is causing these drugs to rapidly lose their effectiveness against dangerous infections. The biggest offenders: factory farms that mix antibiotics right into the feed of healthy animals. In fact, 80 percent of the antibiotics sold in the U.S. are for animals. Big farming operations discovered that giving antibiotics to healthy animals made them fatter, faster. Now many of them put antibiotics into the daily feed of all their livestock, sick or not. The result? Bacteria that come into contact with these animals mutate and become resistant to antibiotics, and the infections these bacteria cause -- everything from pneumonia to MRSA -- become harder and harder to treat. The World Health Organization, the American Medical Association, the American Public Health Association, and other leading medical groups all warn that the routine use of antibiotics in food animals presents a serious and growing threat to human health. Now, in the face of calls for reform, factory farms are spending big money to lobby against any new rules to curtail the overuse of antibiotics. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has the authority to stop the worst overuse of antibiotics on factory farms. It's time for them to act.

Idling is dirty, inefficient, and unhealthy. Idling vehicles—particularly diesel trucks—produce exhaust that pollutes our air and damages our health and our children’s health. Texas allows cities to pass their own anti-idling ordinances. Dallas and Austin already have. We want the City of Houston to pass an anti-idling ordinance to protect our health!

"We are starting this petition to stop secondhand smoke in vehicles. Tobacco alone kills more people in Michigan than alcohol, AIDS, alcohol, auto accidents, cocaine, heroin, murders and suicides combined! Together, we could help put a stop to secondhand smoke."

If you love Flathead Lake and want to keep the lake and its shoreline healthy and beautiful, then please sign this petition. The bridge to "Dockstaeder Island" now is 1/3 built. We think it was improperly approved and must be removed. The Flathead County Commissioners approved the bridge on the technicality that it was 'not a road'. In fact, the bridge is both a road and a driveway and it crosses the Lakeshore Protection Zone twice. Neither a road or driveway may cross this protection zone. The commissioners need to deny an "amendment" to the permit to allow the bridge to be completed, and they need to rescind the original permit for the bridge. Withdrawing this permit and removing the bridge will protect the lakeshore. It will also restore fair and equal treatment for everyone under the regulations.

There has been a huge increase in the use of rail shipment of hazmat materials along with several catastrophic derailments resulting in fire, explosions and spills. Our region along the Mississippi River is a environmentally sensitive area and any accident would be destructive to our region and states downstream and jeopardize the safety of inhabitants near any accident.

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.