The western U.S. is experiencing an unprecedented drought. The state of California is currently in a water emergency. We in Oregon should not think that we are immune to these drought related problems. Instead of waiting for a crisis to unfold i feel it is wise to enact water conservation measures ,e.g. limiting lawn watering in parks/residences in 2014, in order to ensure that we don't find ourselves in an emergency situation. Water conservation is one of the most important strategies we can utilize in offsetting the effects of climate change. I believe this foresight will benefit our community greatly.

The Mountains and ridges of our state are important not just ecologically, but for providing clean drinking water and some of the best scenery in the country. It is important that they be protected.

On January 2, 2014 The County of San Diego released an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) covering a massive industrial solar (CPV tracker technology) project destined for the Boulevard area of the County. 7,500 of these trackers are proposed at four sites covering 1500 acres; three of the sites border Scenic designated Interstate 8 and Historic Old Highway 80. Each of the Soitec trackers is 30 feet high and fifty feet wide. Despite being promoted as green, the project would be an “environmental catastrophe” on many levels as follows: • Unprecedented size and density of massive trackers will industrialize this scenic rurual area lining Old Highway 80, a state designated scenic highway and the entry to McCain Valley, a federal public recreation area. Bulldozing will destroy sensitive plants and wetlands, meadows, wildlife habitat and scenic views. • French developer Soitec and San Diego County are betting on 7,500 unproven CPV units, not yet commercially operational for any significant period at any other U.S. site. This fast- tracked project is due to start this year and doesn’t allow time for a careful environmental impact study. • Millions, perhaps even a billion gallons of water will be needed to construct this project and more water will be pumped to constantly clean and rinse these trackers. This heavy water use threatens to drain our aquifers—our sole sources of drinking water--all the way to Borrego Valley and turn much of the San Diego high back country into a desert. It’s outrageous to risk having residents’ wells run dry or water sources for wildlife dry up, given that we’re in the worst drought in California history and our Governor has declared a drought emergency. We should conserve our precious water resources. • Lack of water will impoverish people and devastate abundant wildlife including “endangered” Peninsular Bighorn Sheep, Golden Eagles, Borrego Pupfish and others that are “Species of Special Concern.” Deer, bobcat and mountain lions are also found in this area. • Glare will invade the land and create safety hazards and ruin vistas on I-8 and Old 80. These massive glaring panels are proposed just 100 feet from homes, some surrounded on two, three or even four sides. In the Mojave Desert community of Newbury Springs, Supervisors passed a moratorium to protect residents from glare due to impacts of large solar projects there. It’s wrong to force residents who value rural tranquility to be thrust into the middle of an industrial energy zone. • A project isn’t “green” if it endangers wildlife, destroys ecosystems and rural communities’ character. Solar panels belong in the urban environment where power is used – on rooftops and parking lots, or on reclaimed sites such as former landfills – not on wild and scenic lands that must be bulldozed to industrialize rural America. Our town is a canary in a coal mine – County Supervisors gutted our community plan over the objections of our planning group and residents—and the Soitec project is just one of several Goliath-scale energy projects proposed to decimate our wild and scenic places.

The existence of the frack pit is an environmental travesty. Frack pits are a source of toxic waste-waters and cancer causing agents and pollute our environment through leakage, spillage, and evaporataion of toxic VOCs, thus contaminating water, soil, and the air we breathe. Frack pits are a danger to animal, plant, and human life and have no place in our Commonwealth. In place of the frack pit, all gas operators should be required to use some form of a closed loop system for waste storage. We, the undersigned, demand an end to the open impoundment or frack pit and demand PA place the health and welfare of its citizens above all other interests. To allow the continued existence of frack pits in our Commonwealth is unconscionable

More than 20% of the country's population depends on the Ohio, Kentucky, and Mississippi Rivers and their tributaries for vital water supplies. Safeguarding these resources is essential to the lives and livelihoods of millions of people from Pennsylvania to Louisiana. Thorough analysis of routing alternatives and of the direct, indirect, and cumulative effects of the proposed “Bluegrass Pipeline” project is essential to protecting the public and land, air, and water resources from adverse effects of the construction and re-purposing of pipelines for this project. We, the undersigned, request that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in conjunction with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, undertake a comprehensive Environmental Impact Statement for the entire Bluegrass Pipeline project, ranging from Pennsylvania to Louisiana. We also request that the applicants Williams Companies, Boardwalk Pipeline Partners LP, and the Bluegrass Pipeline LLC be directed to refrain from engaging in any actions, including easement acquisition, that would prejudicially commit resources to one route prior to the conclusion of the analysis of impacts of alternatives (including no action).

There are hundreds of families living without potable water in PA for over 4 years. Our mission is to STOP all hydraulic slick water hydrofracking and correct the problems it has caused. Shalefield Stories educates the public as to what people living near drilling have had to deal with across the US.

Our sacred national properties are at risk. The environment is also going to be adversely affected. Farmlands, water, and climate are at risk.

I've been in northern Alberta before the demand from US & multinational oil companies made it feasible for the oil barons to rape the land. I've seen the pictures since. Not pretty. But it is DRIVEN BY CORPORATE GREED. The State Dept report says: "Approval or denial of any one crude oil transport project ... is unlikely to significantly impact the rate of extraction in the oil sands or the continued demand for heavy crude oil at refineries in the United States." But that is UNTRUE. Not only would a denial send a strong message to Big Oil, it would protect OUR farms, OUR communities, OUR water, OUR air, OUR children. If Obama REALLY wants to lead our country against global warming, he will REFUSE to approve this pipeline.

Herakles Farms is a US agribusiness company who wants to plow through swaths of natural forest in Cameroon’s South west province and convert the area into a palm oil plantation. They have little regard for local laws, the local environment and - least of all - local communities, who have depended on the land for generations. The palm oil plantation be bad news for people. It also threatens the habitat of the chimpanzee. This forest is worth more to the people of Africa and future generations if it is left standing. Tell the people behind this reckless project to walk away and put their money somewhere else.

Utilities companies are pushing the California Public Utilities Commission to change the rules on an important credit for solar panel owners. Stop utility companies from making solar more expensive. When families produce electricity with solar panels on their homes, they get an important credit on energy bills. This reduces our dependence on fossil fuels by making solar energy accessible to more people. Opportunities and incentives for families to “go solar” are essential to scale up the kid-safe, climate-safe energy we need to fight climate change. The California Public Utilities Commission is reviewing the rules on net metering, the credit given to customers with solar power when they give back the extra energy their solar panels produce to the electricity grid. Utility companies want to change the rules to give people partial credit for this electricity. But, people who installed solar expected the rules to be consistent for the 30-year life of their systems. Our kids deserve a clean energy future. When my sons ask how we’re acting to protect our climate, I want to confidently tell them California is creating -- and keeping -- policies that support and increase solar power. Standing up for families who invest in clean energy is one clear way to move toward the kid-safe, climate-safe energy solutions we need. California families who invest in rooftop solar should be able to expect long-term bill savings the entire time their solar system is producing clean energy. Don’t let utility companies hurt families who invest in solar by drastically reducing this credit.

We have a right to know what’s in the food we buy so that we can make healthy, responsible and informed choices about what we’re eating. But most ingredient lists leave something out: whether a food includes genetically modified ingredients (GMOs). That’s why we’re launching a campaign to show grocery chains that their customers want this information, and persuade them to follow the lead of other grocery stores like Whole Foods by adopting GMO labeling. If we can convince Kroger to label their GMO products, not only will that immediately protect our right to know, but it will also create momentum toward a statewide labeling law. Tell Kroger to label GMOs in its store-brand products.

We are MoveOn fracking fighters in Maryland working to keep our communities and climate safe from the biggest single new gas drilling threat on the East Coast: Cove Point. A Virginia-based company called Dominion Resources is proposing a radical detour away from Maryland’s clean energy future: They want to build a massive, $3.8 billion facility on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay in southern Maryland that would liquefy and export to Asia nearly one billion cubic feet of fracked natural gas every day. This proposed Cove Point export facility would help the gas industry maximize its profits by selling gas overseas at higher prices. But the impacts for our communities and climate would be disastrous. Exporting fracked gas from Maryland would dramatically increase pressure on nearby states to expand fracking operations -- and make it harder to keep Maryland’s own fracking moratorium in place. It takes so much energy to extract, process and ship “liquefied natural gas” (LNG) that this single facility would trigger more climate pollution than all seven of Maryland’s existing coal-fired power plants COMBINED. Dominion could invest its $3.8 billion in renewable energy resources and create far more jobs. Instead, they are choosing to double-down on fossil fuels by building a new power plant, new compressor stations, and additional infrastructure to expand production and shipment of natural gas from neighboring states, through Maryland, to more lucrative foreign markets! Marylanders are fighting back -- and we need Governor Martin O’Malley, a leader who cares about climate change, to stand with us. By blocking what would be the first fracked gas export terminal on the East Coast, the Free State is in a position to set a precedent and lead the way to a clean energy future. Please sign this petition to urge Governor Martin O’Malley to oppose the fracked gas export terminal at Cove Point!