A quarter of everything we eat, from apples to watermelon, depends on bee pollination. But toxic pesticides, known as neonicotinoids, have been linked to the mass die-off of bees and other pollinators. This is a threat to our food supply and local businesses.

We are creating this petition to ban plastic bottles in Mount Shasta, California. Plastic bottles are just horrible for everyone and everything. By eliminating plastic bottles in schools, offices and public areas in Mount Shasta, we can do our part in eliminating unneeded waste in landfills, littering in our National Parks and reduce greenhouse gasses. This petition will also serve as a response from the residents of Mount Shasta to reflect our feelings about a environmentally risky project is taking place in Mount Shasta conducted by Crystal Geyser in 2015, and due to their lack of a "Through Environmental Review". The newly announced Crystal Geyser Plant could produce chemicals that could potentially runoff could overwhelm the wastewater treatment plant.

As a UL student and Cardinal fan it is embarassing that our school's athletics department sends so many recyclables to the landfill.

Create awareness surrounding the effects this extreme fossil fuel extraction is having on agricultural land. Quality food can not be produced when VOC's like benzene, toluene, known carcinogens, neurotoxins, the very agents used to kill soldiers on the battle field and endocrine disruptors are vented off into the atmosphere and deposited on the nearby soil. Radioactive agents have been found in frack waste. Irradiating food for human consumption is ludicrous!Now lets talk about the water...

I am starting this petition to ask for support to defeat H.B. 7859, a proposed change in the law that protects otters from hunting and trapping.

This petition is to urge our local lawmakers to support twelve important bills required to regulate 'fracking' operations in Illinois. My interest stems from the fact that I live in Illinois, breathe the air, drink the water, and enjoy the natural beauty, pay taxes, and need protection from cleanup and liability if 'fracking' operations are inadequately regulated

Installing a low-flow toilet, riding your bike, and reusing grocery bags are worthwhile actions that save energy and inspire others to do the same. However, individual actions are not enough to have an effect on climate change. Yesterday the UN released the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. According to the report, greenhouse gas emissions must be cut by 40-70% by 2050 to hold the global temperature increase to 2 degrees Celsius. Cuts this large will require an international effort, but the US is the world's largest economy and we can and should be leaders on this issue. A carbon tax would be the quickest and most efficient way for the US to cut its greenhouse gas emissions. The carbon tax should be revenue-neutral, meaning that any revenue generated from the tax should be offset either by reductions in distortionary taxes (such as income tax) or government transfers.

This series provides stories of how climate disruption is already affecting people's lives. The science of it all is well-explained, verified. While Showtime is to be commended for airing the series, it really needs to be picked up by a network that more people are able to watch. An informed public is crucial to dealing with the crisis impacting our climate.

For years, activists and environmentalists have pushed to make GMO labeling the norm, letting Americans know about the genetically engineered crops and mutant products stocking their shelves. That dream came true when Sen. Barbara Boxer and Rep. Peter DeFazio introduced the Genetically Engineered Food Right-to-Know Act to require GMO labeling this April. But Rep. Mark Pompeo has other plans — including teaming up with Monsanto to drive food regulation back to the Dark Ages. Pompeo's bill has been nicknamed the DARK Act: Denying Americans the Right-to-Know. Backed by the "Big 6" chemical companies like Monsanto and Dow, Pompeo wants to block both states and the FDA from requiring GE labeling, allow "natural" foods to have genetically engineered ingredients, and label animal feeds non-GMO even if they're packed with them. Ninety-three percent of Americans want GMO foods labeled, and evidence is growing that the health and environmental risks of pesticide-coated fraken-crops are much more serious than the Big 6 told us.

Sunoco Pipeline LP petitioned PA PUC for public utility status, a move that would impact property owners and municipalities in the path of the Mariner East pipeline. As a public utility, Sunoco would have the power of eminent domain and would be exempt from local zoning requirements. A December 2013 PA Supreme Court ruling overruled Act 13’s evisceration of municipal zoning in gas operations and upheld our local government rights. We petition PA PUC to uphold the Pennsylvania Constitution and deny public utility status to the for profit entity, Sunoco.

Thanks to a state law passed in 2007, Colorado's for-profit utilities, like Xcel Energy, have eliminated energy waste equivalent to 210,000 households, reducing over a million tons of air pollution and saving millions of dollars. Now, however, Xcel wants to roll back their effective energy savings programs by a third, and they’re asking the Colorado Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to let them do it. Stand up for Colorado energy efficiency: Tell the PUC to stop Xcel's energy savings rollback. Comments are due to the PUC by April 21st, so we need to act fast. And the PUC doesn't get a lot of public comments so trust me: your voice can make a difference. Sign the petition and we'll hand deliver it by the 21st.

I see mile-long Bakken oil trains⎯each carrying approximately 3 million gallons of volatile crude oil⎯roll through my small Skagit Valley community nearly every day. If all oil-by-rail permit requests are approved, many more potentially explosive oil trains will travel through Washington state every day. The dangers to the health and safety of our communities and our environment of transporting oil by rail, given the flammability of Bakken crude oil, the poor safety record of the tank cars currently carrying the oil, and the increased number of derailments as more trains transport oil, need to be studied and addressed before allowing more oil-by-rail trains to travel through Washington state.