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.

Reno Gazette Journal should stop publishing letters that deny climate change.

Citizens Coalition for a Safe Community, 501c3, has been actively engaged since 2008 in the fight against the expansion of the Inglewood oil field in the Baldwin Hills having discovered documents that indicated hydraulic fracturing had been being used since 2002 to exploit oil and gas reserves from multiple depths at 3000 to 10,000 feet. The communities adjacent to the oil field in the Baldwin Hills and Culver City have seen the negative impacts of this expansion in drilling with structural damage to homes along with serious negative health effects such as asthma, different cancers and immune system diseases. Hydraulic fracturing will increase emissions of toxic gases by twelve fold and increase damaging seismicity and ground movement. A moratorium is needed now, "Do no more harm".

Newspapers need to stop publishing letters that deny climate change.

All across the earth, plants, animals and people are suffering from climate disruption. Politicians keep debating and thwarting significant climate protection policy, while extreme energy causes rapid, irreversible harm. Our NY state tax dollars are funding extreme energy production and infrastructure. It is wrong and utterly irresponsible. As NYS citizens and stakeholders, we affirm and uphold that our tax dollars (held in the NYS $164 billion Common Retirement Fund) should "promote the common good." We do not want our tax dollars to cause climate disruption, environmental degradation and immense suffering. Investing in fossil fuels is personally affecting millions of NY residents. The vibrant, natural land around our rural, upstate homes, farms and wineries is leased for fracking and targeted for LNG pipeline expansion, storage and transport. NYC is being hit hard by LNG infrastructure. All across the state, land, water and air quality is being threatened and severely impaired. There is a comprehensive, sustainable, green energy pathway - available now - which is environmentally, socially and financially responsible and prudent.

Fracking injects radioactive and toxic materials deep into the earth; fracking uses millions of gallons of fresh water which is returned to the surface as hazardous waste. Fracking industrializes the rural landscape with constant noise, air pollution, and dust from tanker trucks carrying fracking materials to and hazardous wastes from the wells. Gas wells release high levels of methane, which contributes to global climate change. People and animals suffer from exposure to fracking chemicals in the air and water. To save our planet and our land and water, it's time to concentrate on energy efficiency and developing renewables. Please tell Governor Cuomo: Don't FRACK New York.

I live in the lower east side, particularly most recently renamed "Hell Square". On the weekends, the police now block off a radius with their police cars and have patrol horses walking about in the neighborhood. Although I am all for the police presence, is the horse really necessary? They defecate all over the neighborhood and it smells like a circus every weekend.

Our water is so important for consumption.. for the wild life and eco system. If our waters get polluted this will sign the end of everything. We must protect it.

Fluoride is a toxic sedative that can cause severe damage to thyroid health, bone health, brain function, and even can even cause cancer-- in regards to dental health, there is no real evidence that fluoride is even slightly beneficial. The FDA classifies fluoride as a drug, which essentially makes water fluoridation the world's largest scale mass forced medication; this means millions of Americans in every state, including 100% of Washington DC's citizens, are slowly sedated and poisoned every day by simply consuming a basic human necessity.

Newspapers need to stop publishing letters that deny climate change. Climate change is a reality; not fiction. There are many scientists declaring climate change is happening at a rapid pace. There would be more scientists, but for fear of losing their jobs, those scientists are being silenced or told to debunk climate change.