Save our Foster City Bay! Protect its wild open spaces. Adults and children alike love the levee, the unobstructed views of the Bay, the trails and the jumps. We want to protect this important Bay habitat for all the birds, butterflies, animals and fish that live there. It is one of the unique, and highly desirable features of our city. We are also very concerned about the overcrowding in our schools; where will the children from the proposed new developments go? The proposed project had its preliminary advisory meeting with our City Council on 28th. April 2014.

Stop the mining in western Wisconsin

Extreme oil extraction methods, including fracking, acidization, and steam flooding (collectively called "fracking" in this petition), are a threat to our water, air, jobs, and health, and add to global warming. Why is this important? Fracking (short for "hydraulic fracturing") is an extreme method of oil and gas extraction that involves high-pressure injection of vast quantities of fresh water, sand and toxic chemicals deep underground – endangering Californians' health, safety, and jobs. Big Oil hopes to expand fracking in California, especially targeting the Monterey Shale formation, which lies under much of California including parts of Alameda County. Did you know there are already several oil wells in Alameda County? In the last ten years, fracking has expanded rapidly in states like Pennsylvania, North Dakota, Texas, and Colorado. Residents living near fracking operations suffer from constant floodlighting at night and noise, endless diesel truck traffic, toxic spills, contaminated groundwater and streams, air pollution which sickens neighbors, increased crime, and falling property values. If Big Oil gets its way, it could spell ruin for California farmers and vineyards. Appallingly, even in severe drought, Big Oil regularly outbids farmers for water rights in order to obtain the huge quantities of fresh water that fracking requires. And the toxic chemicals, heavy metals, and radioactivity associated with fracking operations often contaminate the soil, air, and water, sicken and kill wildlife, livestock, and people, and trigger earthquakes. Despite the clear potential risks posed to Californians by Big Oil’s plans to expand fracking in our state, legislation in 2013 that would have placed a moratorium on fracking was subverted into a law to weakly regulate it, and Governor Brown appears eager to encourage the expansion of these toxic processes. That's why we have to take matters into our own hands and ban fracking at the local level. Cities and counties in California have broad authority to ban the surface activities which support fracking, and it’s up to us to support our local officials stepping in where the state government has failed to protect us. Local bans on fracking may also be one of the most effective strategies for winning change at the state level. A growing wave of cities and counties in California is rejecting fracking, which puts increased pressure on Sacramento to ban fracking in all the whole state. Hundreds of communities across the country, from New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio, to Colorado and New Mexico have successfully passed local bans or moratoriums on fracking in order to protect their water, homes, and health, and pressure state officials to act. Now it's up to us: Even if you have signed other anti-fracking petitions, please sign this petition to ban fracking in Alameda County.

Americans' tax dollars have paid to protect our public lands for the public interest, and for future generations. Our watersheds, airsheds, ecosystems and our own health all depend upon these lands remaining unspoiled. Local economies depend upon these lands being protected, as well. Home-grown tourism, hospitality and recreation are clean industries that supply thousands of local jobs and invest profits in the local communities instead of off-shore accounts. Protection of our public lands serves ALL citizens, and especially those who live and work near them. Allowing vigilante bullies and corporate-controlled politicians to stir up movements to wrest away these lands from the citizens who have paid to preserve and protect them from being despoiled for profit is NOT in the interests of the people of Utah nor their posterity. Nor is it in the interests of United States citizens whose taxes support these lands, nor the visitors who enjoy their unspoiled beauty, clear skies, clean water, starry nights, as well as the chance to recreate, hunt, fish, explore, and honor the ancients cultures who inhabited them.

Lets protect Olathe's nature! Every day, as I drive to work, I notice less and less trees left. I see a new development growing up on the same place where there used to be trees. With every natural habitat that disappears, we destroy not only trees, but animals, insects and reptiles. We should stop destroying nature just for the convenience of a new housing development or strip mall. This petition is against destroying Olathe forest.

We enjoy the openness of our harbor. Please do not build a fishing pier off Stacy Boulevard. It is our opinion that this is not a sensible place to have a fishing pier -- as climate change and storm surges would make it a very risky spot. Many of us feel that a pier in this location would be a stain on the beauty of the outer harbor, the location of schooner races, many paintings and photographs by talented artists and photos from our own visitors who cherish Gloucester for what it is now: historic and not "built up" in the name of "progress." Noise on the boulevard is sometimes a problem late at night in the summertime. A pier would bring in more people who will be up all night fishing. Also, parking and the added traffic congestion during busy summer months when both vehicles and vessels are competing for bridge access would be made much worse in that location. Please don't ruin what has been a peaceful retreat for residents and an attraction to tourists for hundreds of years. Please vote no on this proposal.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) thinks he's ready to be President of the United States, and he thinks global warming is a hoax. Florida Power & Light wants to build a "clean energy tomorrow for future generations," but is one of Rubio's biggest campaign contributors. To be a clean-energy company, FPL needs to stop supplying Rubio with dirty money. "I do not believe that human activity is causing these dramatic changes to our climate the way these scientists are portraying it," Rubio told ABC News on Mother's Day 2014. "I don’t agree with the notion that some are putting out there, including scientists, that somehow there are actions we can take today that would actually have an impact on what’s happening in our climate. Our climate is always changing. And what they have chosen to do is take a handful of decades of research and say that this is now evidence of a longer-term trend that’s directly and almost solely attributable to manmade activity, I do not agree with that." Florida Power & Light is the largest electric utility in Florida. In 2007, FPL's parent company, NextEra Energy, Inc. signed the Joint Statement by the Global Roundtable on Climate Change, which begins: "Climate change is an urgent problem requiring global action to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases." Under the leadership of CEO James L. Robo, NextEra Energy's PAC and employees have contributed $79,490 to Rubio in campaign donations, even more than Koch Industries has given. Robo himself has given at least $6900 to Sen. Rubio's campaign coffers. Given that Rubio rejects NextEra Energy's basic understanding of the danger carbon pollution poses to Florida, the nation, and the world, it's time for Mr. Robo's company to live by their stated values and stop contributing to Rubio.

This is our neighborhood. We are greatly impacted by the constant traffic of heavy equipment. It's noisy, stinky, and often very fast though this family neighborhood. The City Yard facilities are run-down and outdated, and a bond to move the City Yard has already been approved by the voters. We would just like to see it replaced with something amazing rather than high-density tract housing.

There is an excessive and unnecessary waste of energy, materials for electrical systems, and money by leaving unoccupied buildings illuminated at night. "Lights Out" would lead to a major reduction in greenhouse gasses and massive savings in operating expenditures. Much like we are renovating older governmental facilities to be more energy efficient through advanced HVAC systems and insulation, this would have an immediate impact with no cost, just savings.

There is an excessive and unnecessary waste of energy, materials for electrical systems, and money by leaving unoccupied buildings illuminated at night. This would lead to a major reduction in greenhouse gasses and massive savings in operating expenditures. Much like we are renovating older governmental facilities to be more energy efficient through advanced HVAC systems and insulation, this would have an immediate impact with no cost, just savings.

I deeply care about biodiversity, along with many other Americans. The short-minded use of palm oil is contributing to the extinction of many species and habitats. The maps that show the historic range of the rainforest, compared to today, serve as a huge visual cry for help.

If we care about our kid’s future, we can no longer buy products that harm our planet. ConAgra Foods, one of the biggest companies in Omaha, NE and the owner of famous brands like Marie Callender’s and Chef Boyardee, uses Conflict Palm Oil in its products. Much of that palm oil drives mass deforestation in Indonesia. ConAgra could easily help protect people and rainforests if it adopted a policy to buy responsible palm oil instead of Conflict Palm Oil. The damage caused by Conflict Palm Oil is tremendous. Deforestation to make way for palm oil plantations threatens unique and priceless ecosystems. It threatens species like the Sumatran tiger and orangutans. The impact on communities who are forced off their land or pushed into forced and child labor is simply unacceptable. The destruction of forests is also releasing carbon into the atmosphere and driving climate change. Other companies are already dropping Conflict Palm Oil from their products. It’s time ConAgra Foods did the same. Would you help us put some pressure on ConAgra Foods by signing this petition? We’ll make sure it’s a message they can’t ignore.