Governor Jerry Brown thinks fracking has zero impact on Californians, but we know a few towns in the Central Valley that beg to differ. Kern County is California's most-fracked county. It also has the worst air quality in the nation, and highly elevated rates of cancer and respiratory illness. Although the oil industry has been in Kern for decades, fracking has opened up new opportunities for expansion. For residents of towns like Shafter and Wasco, fracking means more oil extraction and more impacts on their health. Kern County residents are fighting back: they've invited Governor Brown to come see the impacts of fracking for himself. California is at a crossroads, and Governor Brown has a choice to make: go all-in on extreme energy, or finally say "enough is enough." We're calling on him to end fracking in California, but we don't want him to just hear it from us. We're urging the Governor to take Kern County residents up on their invitation.

John Boehner is the most powerful Republican and the GOP is stonewalling efforts to slow human-caused climate change. I fear that the US government will not act until it is too late to reverse climate change and that climate change could be catastrophic.

Out in the country of NC many live within a stones throw of a field of genetically modified crops that are sprayed with toxic chemicals regularly. I can understand some applications to an extent however a helicopter flew around my property spraying who knows what for 30 minutes killing all kinds of organisms both in their crops and on my poor little chemical free sanctuary, never mind myself and my pets.

Conservation work in the US and across the globe will never make an impact on Global warming until the amount of fossil fuel being produced by the gas oil and coal industries is reduced. The U.S. should be reducing the supply of these resources.

I'm starting this petition because I love Pandas and I am an animal person. I feel like we should take care of these beautiful pandas because if we don't, it will effect the animal kingdom as the result of pandas becoming extinct. In China they are killing pandas for their fur, and that's the reason why animals with fur like pandas are becoming more and more extinct.

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.