Colorado succeeded in a fight to not let corporate industry pollute our air while developing our state's natural resources. Our experience can serve as a model for other states.

Our valley and entire state have long been ruled by the funds of environmentally destructive industries that have no regard for the people of this state. It is time to take a stand and protect our safety and the best interest of the people who live here.

NYC tap water is world renowned for its taste and quality. Bottled water of any ilk is less tested and it uses up unnecessary resources from oil to make and distribute the plastic bottles to the oil and work needed to dispose of them. Only one in 5 bottles is actually recycled. While the label on bottled water usually has pastoral scenes of nature including streams and forests, as much as 1 in 4 bottles of bottled water is actually just PLAIN OLD TAP WATER. Some filtered and some unfiltered. How would we even know if it was filtered or unfiltered? I just think of the foreign oil needed to make, distribute, and either recycle or send to landfills for a thousand years when I even SEE anyone drink ANY bottled water. I think as NYC local elected officials, all NYC City Councilmembers AND staff should each CARRY their own BPA free water bottles and shun the tiny 8 oz. bottles of Whatever Springs Water that they are offered daily. 10 REASONS to AVOID BOTTLED WATER 1. It is 1000 times more expensive than tap water. 2. It undergoes LESS regulation than TAP WATER. (Tap water IS FAR MORE REGULATED as it undergoes FDA AND EPA standards) 3. Since it is packaged in a PLASTIC or GLASS bottles, I think of the WORK and ENERGY and FOSSIL FUEL required to package and distribute that bottle worldwide. 4. It tastes like PLASTIC. (tap water out performs bottled water on tests after tests, nationwide) 5. Anywhere from 33% - 60% of all bottled water is JUST tap water. (some filtered and some straight from the tap) 6. Fossil fuel is used to make and distribute the finished bottled water. 7. Each year, the amount of oil used required to make the bottles of bottled water, is enough to FUEL 1 million cars. 8. 80% of bottles end up in landfills where they will litter the earth for 1000’s of years. 9. If you choose to recycle the bottle, think of the work, energy, and fossil fuel needed to ready that bottle for recycling. And even then, while those plastic bottles are not yet in landfills, many are DOWNCYCLED, or turned into lesser plastic parts which will eventually end up in a landfill where it will litter the earth for 1000’s of years. 10. I don’t want to appear like an uneducated consumer of foreign fossil fuel products. I’d rather purchase a reusable BPA free bottle and go exclusively for tap water 100% of the time.

Kentucky, West Virginia, Indiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, North Carolina and Louisiana top the USA in Cancer Deaths and Asthma because of lightly regulated pollution from dirty fossil fuels ... especially natural gas fracking, coal & petroleum diesel. Kentucky, West Virginia, Indiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, North Carolina and Louisiana are not alone. This is a national problem. We need leaders at National Public Radio who firmly debate, with utmost honesty and integrity, issues including natural gas fracking and today's poorly built, poorly maintained and lobbyist-friendly Toxic Coal Ash Dumps. Diane Rehm: Toxic Front Groups Should Not Be Given A Hall-Pass on National Public Radio.

Clean Water Action of Pennsylvania, in alliance with other citizens, demand that the Governors of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and New York order the Susquehanna River Basin Commission to institute a multi-state, comprehensive environmental study of the water quality effects of drilling/fracking operations in the Susquehanna watershed. For more information about this campaign, please contact Nathan Sooy of Clean Water Action at 717-233-1801 or at [email protected].

I believe we should be informed and make our own choices about what we, as consumers eat. To me this is a preventative health issue, and an issue of consumer choice. Please Join me and share this petition with your district 8 friends. If you care what is in your food....there are 3 important things you can do today 1) SIGN this Petition 2) SHARE it with everyone 3) VISIT www.NeedToKnowMARYLAND.org to learn how to get your voice heard in Annapolis and join the growing GRASSROOTS Movement to Label GMOs in MARYLAND.

Nuclear power is inherently risky, as evidenced by the 2011 triple meltdowns in Japan. The waste storage dilemma has not been solved. New small modular designs tout themselves as "self-contained" but will produce nuclear waste that needs storage for thousands of years, making them anything but self-contained. The exorbitant cost of nuclear was painfully shown in the WPPSS bond defaults, which we are still paying for.

Single use plastic bags are commonly used for a short time yet carry long term environmental and economic impacts. They are a temporary product made from nonrenewable petroleum, yet take an estimated 1000 years to decompose. We hope Athens can be a frontrunner of environmental and economic sustainability through the joint efforts of legislators, businesses, and citizens to help reduce this unnecessary product: the single use plastic bag.

The People of the Town of LaPointe and Madeline Island deserve a healthy quality of food. GMO seeds have been touted as a solution to production and overall yield and yet, the companies that are promoting this view have conducted no health studies and can offer no data as to the long term effect of GMO products on the human body or the surrounding environment. However, private studies conducted by individuals in academic research have shown conclusively that GMO products have an adverse effect on the natural biological function of both the human body and the natural environment. We the undersigned are not willing to sacrifice health and security over privatization of the public seed domain. Our ancestors survived without the use of GMO seeds; We The People resolve to do the same.

SJRWMD has doubled the consumptive water usage for Niagara Bottling Company in Groveland, Florida (from 484,000 to 910,000 gallons per day) Central Florida is growing faster than its water supply and the Floridan Aquifer will not be able to sustain our needs over the next decade. Please sign this petition to cancel Saint Johns River Water Management District's 20 year permit to allow Niagara Bottling Company to pump 910,000 gallons of water per day from the Floridan Aquifer

Chronic exposure to lawn chemicals poses severe health risks to residents and unknown side effects to the environment.

Trader Joe's is a leader in the revolution towards healthier, more consciously produced foods, and they have become a major force in the food industry now with over 400 unique markets nationwide. We applaud their policies of only featuring meat and dairy products from animals that are not fed growth hormones or antibiotics. It's time for Trader Joe's to take a strong stand against GMO's. We suggest they no longer carry any products containing GMO's. This includes their fruit and vegetables and also the food that is fed the animals whose meat or dairy products they feature, and even the ingredients in their pet foods. Thank you Trader Joe's for going as far as you have gone. Time for the next step!