Its time that we all open our eyes and realize that the plastic bags that we conveniently acquire at our local supermarkets, retail pharmacies, and convenience stores are extremely HAZARDOUS to our environment. They are responsible for so many PREVENTABLE marine and wild life deaths with the simple use of a reusable or bio-degradable bag . They affect 267 animal species annually including whales, fish, birds and turtles. The Pacific Leatherback sea turtle mistake the bags for jellyfish and consume them resulting in their declining population of 95% in the last 20 years. :-( -Over the last 25 years 7,825,319 plastic bags were collected from beaches around the world. -Of the 115 BILLION bags used nationally each year only 5% are recycled. -MILLIONS of taxpayers dollars are SPENT annually on landfill costs, litter prevention, cleanup efforts and enforcement. MONEY THAT COULD BE USED FOR BETTER PURPOSES. We are in charge of our planet. It is our God given right to protect it. Its time that we take a stand and make the essential changes needed to save our planet for ourselves and the future of our children before its too late. Please take a moment and sign this petition. Thanks

Gov. Corbett's newly appointed Department of Environmental Protection Secretary, Chris Abruzzo, just said “I’ve not read any scientific study that would lead me to conclude there are adverse impacts to human beings, animals, or plant life at this small level of climate change." Does this include Superstorm Sandy and Typhoon Haiyan? The devastating heat waves that have hit the country? Mr. Abruzzo is dangerously out of touch. Apparently he hasn't read the studies showing that warming-induced sea level rise has doubled the risk of Hurricane Sandy-scale coastal flooding. Or the studies showing that global warming-induced heat waves and droughts are already making life harder for corn farmers across the Midwest. Or the studies that link warming to pine beetle infestations and ecosystem shifts that threaten to drive many species to extinction. Clearly, Chris Abruzzo isn't the right person to figure out how Pennsylvania is going to tackle maybe the biggest problem facing the Earth—because he isn't even sure it is a problem. Tell the Pennsylvania Senate to reject Chris Abruzzo's nomination to lead the Department of Environmental Protection.

Our state senate is going to vote on Chris Abruzzo's nomination to head up the DEP as early as this week. Here's what he told the Environmental Resources and Energy committee when asked about climate change. "Abruzzo told the committee he does believe climate change is occurring and that it seems to be at least partially attributable to human factors, but he does not view it as harmful and sees no reason for Pennsylvania to adopt new policies to address it." And still the committee voted to approve him 10 - 1! Daylin Leach was the ONLY member of the committee to vote NO! Our senators need to know we don't want a climate denier heading up the DEP! http://stateimpact.npr.org/pennsylvania/2013/12/04/corbetts-pick-to-run-dep-does-not-view-climate-change-as-harmful/

Fracking is a dangerous practice that our government has failed to protect the public from. Stop fracking in California.

I live on a 50 acre farm in the most amazing and beautiful Skagit County. It would break my heart NOT to be able to drink the water from our well or swim in the pristine creek that runs through this land. I am sending out this petition to ban fracking in Washington State, because I want our children and our grandchildren to be able to drink clean water and breathe clean air.

Indiana deserves long-term solutions to energy supply, and not at the expense of our natural resources. Indiana need not contribute to the further despoiling of the environment. The economy needs to grow through renewable energy (wind, solar, water), not extraction of fossil fuels.

As the catastrophe at Fukushima worsens, Japan's State Secrets Act threatens to cut the flow of vital information. We ask Ambassador Kennedy to oppose this act so the world might know what is happening at Fukushima and how to respond.

I'm starting this petition because, several years ago a natural gas project began in Prop A territory near Whittier. As a condition of becoming Prop A land in 1992, the City of Whittier promised to keep the preserve in perpetuity. Allowing a natural gas project violates the laws set forth in 1992, and could set a dangerous precedence for all the 21,000 acres of open in LA County. Allowing the project to continue here in Whittier could mean all Prop A land could suffer a similar fate. Please sign this petition to let your elected representatives know you would like to keep open space as open space and not land for development!

Fukushima threatens the Earth's biosphere. Our survival may hinge on the global media being guaranteed unlimited site access so humankind can be immediately informed of, and respond to, all vital developments there.

A single plastic bag will take thousands of years to degrade. Yet Tops Friendly Markets and Wegmans Food Markets use so many plastic bags a year it’s unbelievable. Many people don't even realize how harmful plastic bags are to our environment. The United States alone goes through 100 billion plastic shopping bags per year. Over the course of time, they add up and have nowhere to go. These bags end up in our beautiful oceans, which now have about 46,000 pieces in it per square mile. If that weren't enough reason to support the discontinued use of plastic bags, when they break down, they photo-degrade. Materials break down to smaller fragments which soak up toxins that contaminate soil, waterways, and animals upon digestion. Tell Tops Friendly Markets and Wegmans Food Market, our most popular grocers in the neighborhood, to drop plastic bags. Stores around the world have seen the ugly side of plastic. In fact, many charge for using plastic bags or have just banned them altogether. Please help make our dream of saving the world one bag at a time a reality. Let's ask Tops Friendly Markets and Wegmans Food Market to stop the use of plastic bags.

A single plastic bag will take thousands of years to degrade. Yet Tops Friendly Markets and Wegmans Food Markets use so many plastic bags a year it’s unbelievable. Many people don't even realize how harmful plastic bags are to our environment. The United States alone goes through 100 billion plastic shopping bags per year. Over the course of time, they add up and have nowhere to go. These bags end up in our beautiful oceans, which now have about 46,000 pieces in it per square mile. If that weren't enough reason to support the discontinued use of plastic bags, when they break down, they photo-degrade. Materials break down to smaller fragments which soak up toxins that contaminate soil, waterways, and animals upon digestion. Tell Tops Friendly Markets and Wegmans Food Market, our most popular grocers in the neighborhood, to drop plastic bags. Stores around the world have seen the ugly side of plastic. In fact, many charge for using plastic bags or have just banned them altogether. Please help make our dream of saving the world one bag at a time a reality. Let's ask Tops Friendly Markets and Wegmans Food Market to stop the use of plastic bags.

The brooks, creeks and rivers in the George Washington National Forest comprise the watershed for a large portion of the east coast. In addition our agriculture and drinking water in the immediate area of the proposed fracking will be effected by this environmentally unsafe practice.