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.

Newspapers need to stop publishing letters that deny climate change. Only reasonable, responsible claims should be published, not those that deny reality.

Newspapers need to stop publishing letters that deny climate change.

We do not want chemicals to get into our crops and drinking water. Hydrofluoric acid is being trucked around California’s back roads and injected into oil wells. 'The stuff is so toxic that it can harm people up to 14 miles downwind, government records show.'* * http://www.invw.org/content/toxic-acid-puts-millions-at-risk

Newspapers need to stop publishing letters that deny climate change.

Newspapers need to stop publishing letters that deny climate change. The science is beyond compelling, and the consequences way too extreme to justify rolling the dice for short term profits,

Mayor Nutter is considering privatizing Philadelphia's gas utility, which would take all decisions about liquefied natural gas -- and by extension, fracking -- out of public hands. The fracking industry plans to make Philadelphia a shale gas hub, so it is critical that we keep public control over our gas utility to ensure public input in decisions about gas infrastructure. A private gas company would increase rates, potentially leaving thousands of Philadelphians in the cold. We're fortunate that our gas utility is publicly owned, as this is rare among gas companies. Now, let's make sure it stays that way!

Newspapers need to stop publishing letters that deny climate change. As an educator of Hurricane disaster relief, I have seen how false debate over climate change gets in the way of students as young as 6th grade taking steps to learn and make real change in their world. When we teach and learn Katrina, Sandy, and now Haiyan among others, we need to be able to focus on what will make a healthier, more resilient society:It's not about saving the Earth nor about simply re-building, but rather about building ourselves up and in new ways. This kind of change is cultural and the popular culture needs to lean toward being informed by what newspapers can only rightly report about how the world works.

Newspapers need to stop publishing letters that deny the facts of climate change. There is room for a healthy debate on the appropriate actions to take in response to the reality of human-activity-caused global warming and consequent climate change, but there is no longer a legitimate debate about the facts that the globe is warming and that human activity is causing it.