I'm starting this petition because I personally believe that the BSL-4 is completely safe and it will be very good for the city of Boston and the surrounding areas. This facility will attract the best and brightest from around the World and will make our great city a leader in the Biotech field. The facility has already gone through rigorous state and federal safety approvals and I believe Councillor Yancey is overreaching his mandate by trying to prevent the opening of this facility. Learn more at http://www.bu.edu/neidl/2014/03/17/bu-questions-claims-behind-proposed-ordinance/ http://www.bu.edu/neidl.

A Virginia-based corporation called Dominion Resources is seeking sign-off from Maryland regulators to build a massive fracked gas export facility on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay in southern Maryland. Dominion wants to take nearly a billion cubic feet of fracked gas each day from drilling wells across Appalachia, pipe it across Maryland, liquefy it to 260 degrees below zero and then ship it to Asia -- at high costs to our climate and communities. If the Cove Point export terminal gets built, the increased pressure to frack throughout our region will be enormous, as will the pulse of new planet-heating pollution that wrecks our climate. In fact, the process of fracking, liquefying and exporting gas is so polluting, that Dominion’s plan could trigger as much or more greenhouse gas emissions than all seven of Maryland’s coal-fired power plants COMBINED. On top of it all, the U.S. Department of Energy itself concluded that exporting fracked gas would raise prices for Americans, harming every sector of the economy BUT the super-rich gas industry. They win big at our expense. People across Maryland and across the Mid-Atlantic region are rising up to stop Cove Point. You can join them today by submitting a comment to the Maryland Public Service Commission. Between now and April 2nd, the PSC is taking public input on whether a key permit Dominion needs to build its fracked gas export facility is in our public interest. Sign on to urge the Public Service Commission to put our health and climate above gas industry profits and deny Dominion’s Cove Point permit.

Maine has led the way in using federal grants to ensure the response by public safety will be effective and match the changing environmental conditions in the wake of climate change. Maine is no stranger to the challenges of extreme weather because of climate change, and we are a leader on climate change preparedness, but with superstorms like Sandy taking out the Northeast and droughts plaguing the Midwest, the American people deserve to know that our government is prepared for all possible scenarios.

REASONS TO SUPPORT THIS PETITION 1. CLIMATE CHANGE WON’T WAIT FOR NEW THINKING 2. NOBODY VOTED TO DESTROY HISTORIC STADIUM 3. FEDERAL LAWS ARE SUPPRESSING CANDLESTICK INVENTIONS 4. STATE LAWS ARE ALLOWING DEVELOPERS TO CHEAT 5. SAN FRANCISCO IS HIDING ITS SUPPRESSION OF INVENTIONS 6. CITY HALL IS RUSHING DESTRUCTION TO HIDE SUPPRESSION 7. KIDS NEED TO SEE ADULTS THINK OF THEIR FUTURE 8. ETHIC OF CONSERVATION NEEDED TO BATTLE GLOBAL WARMING 9. REJUVENATION OF EXISTING STRUCTURES NEEDS PROMOTION 10. WESTERN CULTURE IS STILL CONSUMING TOO MUCH FOSSIL FUEL 11. WESTERN CULTURE IS OBLIGATED TO HELP SLOW CLIMATE CHANGE ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: UPDATE ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: September 8, 2014 APOLOGIES TO SIGNERS: The authors of this petition – Richard and Judy McRee of Eureka Valley, San Francisco – have returned after experiencing some months of further suppression of their U.S. Patent for a new green technology inspired by Candlestick – renewed suppression this time owing to the interference of a compromised Federal Magistrate in their 9-year struggle to defend their own work in the face of unconstitutional U.S. Patent Law that has allowed and enabled that suppression, and which has consequently deprived American Industry and Culture of any benefit from the energy-saving inventions. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~`` NOT JUST A LOCAL ISSUE: -< This PETITION is far from simply a personal issue – it defines a State, Federal, and International issue that has relevance to everyone. Despite the above-mentioned further suppression, it has already been signed by individuals from France to Thailand, from the East Coast to the West Coast – people who recognize that Global Warming has been caused by bad habits like excess consumption of fossil fuel and the unnecessary destruction of sound structures like Candlestick. All unnecessary destruction contributes to increasing Climate Change. There is no Magic Fuel; no Magic Product; no Magic Legislation that will fix the problems that old habits have caused. New habits and awareness are needed. Proper legislation is nevertheless vital. UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY: -< President Obama, Governor Jerry Brown, and San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee have a unique opportunity with this PETITION to help set our culture on a new path to help better address climate change. By temporarily suspending the impeding demolition of historic Candlestick Park, they will allow time to investigate how long-outdated Federal and State legislation allows the unnecessary destruction of Candlestick Park and the suppression of its related inventions for new Green Industry. “NO BRAINER”: -< With the support of signers like you, many good things can happen. A moratorium can require San Francisco to back up a bit in its headlong, politically-motivated rush to destroy a useful and valued civic structure worthy of rejuvenation and respectful integration with proposed surrounding development. Our petition is not asking for anything unreasonable. Master Planners know that it is much easier and often wiser to modify existing plans before bulldozers create an irreversible and expensive mistake. AMERICAN SOCCER POPULARITY GROWS: -< Some have claimed that soccer simply won’t work at the existing 69,000-seat Candlestick Park. However, the new stadium in distant Santa Clara just hosted an international soccer match that drew 67,175 fans – S.F. Chronicle, Sep 7, 2014, p. B9). There are over 100 soccer teams in the Bay Area. PROMISE: -< Talented local Architects, Planners, and Engineers can open new doors of wonderful possibilities for our economy and culture. A Federal/State Moratorium can create some simple policy shifts that will help our Culture reorient to an exciting and imaginative Conservation Ethic instead of a habitual cycle of Destruction-Replacement touted by some as essential for a notion of “Progress” that presently rules the day among moneyed interests of the World. 35 YEARS OF WARNINGS: -< Today - thirty five years after the early warnings of Climate Change in the 1970’s - there is no longer any rationale for continuing environmentally-destructive habits like unnecessary destruction. This PETITION can help open minds to intelligent alternatives to unnecessary destruction. One by one, attitudes can change, and the President, Governor, and Mayor are now on respectful notice to act. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: F.Y.I. ==== PREVIOUS POSTINGS You may wish to cut/paste to your own file for further detailed study ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: May 19 -26, 2014 America only has one person for every twenty other people in the entire world. …yet it has habitually consumed almost one out of every three barrels of oil. Too many of us delude ourselves that American culture has no more accountability for climate change than anyone else. …however, “one out of every three barrels of oil” equates to four inches for every foot of the sea rise predicted to impact billions of people as the world’s ice melts on account of using fossil fuel like oil. In either a court of law or a court of ethics, America would appear to be held accountable for the disparity. Saving and extending the useful life of Candlestick for many decades instead of destroying it will demonstrate how to not only conserve “embodied energy” but also create green technology and green jobs for dealing with the dramatic changes that humanity is now facing – largely because our own culture over the past four decades has waited too long to assess the true cost of unnecessary destruction that is done in the name of “Progress” – such as Candlestick if we do not stop its demolition and seek a better way. … The world watches … and knows the Truth. When America admits and acts on the Truth, there will be new possibilities and opportunities for creating Good Will and Green Progress. … Saving Candlestick Park can help show the way. :::...

Asia Pacific Resources International (APRIL) is Asia Pulp and Paper (APP)'s main competitor, APP has recently committed to end deforestation while APRIL still hasn't. It is important for both our future climate and endangered species of animals that we get APRIL to commit to a zero deforestation, zero peatland, zero human exploitation policy.

Last year, under pressure from the oil industry, the California Legislature failed to pass a moratorium on fracking. Since then, fracking has continued to expand in California, putting our communities, our water supply and the environment at risk. Californians have another chance to pass a fracking moratorium bill. Senators Holly Mitchell and Mark Leno introduced SB 1132, a strong moratorium bill that, if passed, will protect California from fracking and other dangerous well stimulation techniques. We have a real opportunity to pass a moratorium this year. The oil industry will spend huge amounts of money and political capital fighting this bill, so we need your help. The first State Senate committee hearing is on April 8. We need a yes vote to move SB 1132 forward. Sign the petition to urge our California elected officials to vote yes on SB 1132 for a fracking moratorium now.

little seems to be done to avoid our coastal waters becoming contaminated w/mercury. There is no separate refuse collection for these items, the only way to safely dispose of them is to drive to the city recycling plant - I believe most people are just tossing them in their garbage where the mercury contaminates the soil and ultimately enters our waterways to the detriment of fish & bird life and us when we consume the fish. I suspect many do not know that these bulbs contain mercury or the damage that it will cause.

The Illinois Supreme Court ruled in Citizens Opposing Pollution v. Exxon that citizens cannot sue for substantive violations of the coal mining statute. IDNR gives illegal permits and we need to sue over permanent site conditions like Exxon's 422 acres of illegally impounded hazardous slurry that has poisoned water formerly used for drinking by everyone in the Albers - Germantown, Illinois area.

I live minutes away from the draft-permitted drilling site. Fracking will use carcinogenic products benzene and methane to move the water into the earth and deliver oil and gas. The bond posted by the drilling company is inadequate in case of emergencies, and the safety details are nonexistent per a report delivered here last week March 11. Dick Armey (Former House Majority Leader and former Chairman of FreedomWorks) and Rex Tillerson (CEO of Exxon) are plaintiffs in Texas about the same sort of water-well and potential drilling near their homes that will "decrease property values, increase noise and air pollution from fracking water trucks, disturb personal health, safety [wording from the lawsuit]" and more. Our water levels are deteriorating and this new site will lead to further depletion plus storage of millions of barrels of contaminated water with no science to clean it.

SEVERAL CITIZENS OF HOLLY SPRINGS, MS WOULD LIKE TO PETITION AGAINST THE HIGH COSTS OF UTILITY BILLS THAT ARE UNPREDICTABLE MONTH TO MONTH REGARDLESS OF USAGE. IN A LOW-INCOME PAYING CITY WITH A POPULATION OF AN ESTIMATED 7,699 CITIZENS, THE AVERAGE UTILITIES (LIGHT/WATER/GAS) BILL IS $450 USD AND HIGHER IN THE CITY OF HOLLY SPRINGS. SEVERAL CUSTOMERS' UTILITIES COST MORE THAN THEIR MORTGAGE PAYMENTS, HOUSE NOTES AND/OR RENT. THE CITIZENS AND THE HSUD NEED TO FIND A COMMON GROUND TO CONSERVE ENERGY AND FINANCIAL RESOURCES FOR THE COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE. SIGN THIS PETITION AND SUPPORT A GOOD CAUSE.

Both parties just made themselves complicit in turning the rest of American politics over to Walmart and Monsanto. Don't let our president finish the job!

The Worcester National Grid Smart Meter Pilot program exposes the community to unprecedented risks in violation of local democracy.