Let's keep UCI racing in Southern California. We need West Coast UCI cyclocross representation let alone UCI cyclocross racing in California!

Newspapers need to stop publishing letters that deny climate change.

Newspapers need to stop publishing letters that deny climate change.

Newspapers need to stop publishing letters that deny climate change. In South Florida, we are particularly vulnerable to the effects of the warming oceans. Our future depends on recognizing and addressing this. The Miami Herald needs to stop publishing letters that deny climate change.

Newspapers need to stop publishing letters that deny climate change.

I don't want the environment and the land to be destroyed due to the greed of the oil industry. I want to preserve and improve, not further destroy the health of our environment for our children and their children. Fracking contributes to global warming. We deserve to have clean air and drinking water. Gov Brown can stop the fracking as did New York State and Hawaii. Our State legislature needs to do more to promote development of clean energy instead of subsidizing the oil industry's rape of California.

Without an RPS, Florida's Energy Policies will be controlled by the Utility Companies who favor nuclear energy and fossil fuels to meet future energy needs. Florida citizens can regain control of a clean energy future with more jobs, a cleaner environment, and regain a leadership position in utilization of Florida's #1 energy resource Solar, and deserve the title of the Sunshine State. Florida needs your support.

The April 2013 ammonium nitrate explosion at the West Fertilizer Company storage facility in West, Texas, which killed 15 people and leveled dozens of homes, was a tragic reminder of the real dangers toxic chemicals pose to Texas communities.

Honey bees, native bees and other pollinators are responsible for one out of every three bites of food we eat. Bees pollinate 71 of the 100 crops that make up 90 percent of the world’s food supply. Many fruits and vegetables, including apples, blueberries, strawberries, carrots and broccoli, as well as almonds and coffee, rely on bees. These beneficial insects are critical in maintaining our diverse food supply. Honey bee populations have been in alarming decline since 2006. Widespread use of a new class of toxic pesticides, neonicotinoids, is a significant contributing factor. In addition to killing bees outright, research has shown that even low levels of these dangerous pesticides impair bees' ability to learn, to find their way back to the hive, to collect food, to produce new queens, and to mount an effective immune response. Despite the mounting evidence, the EPA has delayed action until 2018. Last week 15 European countries imposed a two-year restriction on the use of several of these chemicals. Bees in America can't wait five more years – they are dying now. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has the power and responsibility to protect our pollinators and must take action now. Our nation's food system depends on it.

My mom feels terrible when she eats food with genetically modified ingredients, like corn or beet sugar. Everyone should be able to know - before they buy something - if it has any GMO components.

Many residents around the state who have been following this fracking issue, and some of the larger environmental organizations as well, such as the IL Sierra Club, are extremely disappointed with the new rules for fracking recently published by the IDNR. We must take action for the protection of Illinois residents and our environment from the many dangers of fracking.

Working in a wildlife rehabilitation center, I have seen first hand raptors, snakes and coyotes bleeding from their mouths and eventually dying. This is such cruel and inhumane behavior and the residents of all California communities need to join together to have these products removed from the shelves!!