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.

Throughout my many extensive stays in Marriott hotels nationwide, I have never seen recycling options offered to guests. This cannot be allowed to continue, given the tremendous amount of disposable waste produced by these hotels. Marriott the time for change is now! You need to recycle at all locations! See what I currently have to go through to simply recycle cans at a Marriott, here -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0M7UNXN15s

There have been enough victims of the natural gas industry in Arkansas to more than justify a moratorium. After years of research and observing the practices it is clear that we must stop in order to protect our citizens. Visit ArkansasFracking.org for more info.

Fracking is an environmental nightmare. With all of the pollution and water contamination following the oil spills in the Gulf and other bodies of water surrounding New Orleans, it is nonsensical for the government to support such drastic and pernicious drilling operations. It has been proven that fracking most often leads to water contamination from fracking fluids migrating into the ground water and into water reservoirs. In an area so dependent on its water for things like food, transportation, business, and shipping, it is SHOCKING that the government would allow drilling to jeopardize our sensitive ecosystem. My New Orleans water already smells like chlorine, there's brain-eating Naegleria fowleri amoebas in other Parishes' water, and now you want to add fracking to the equation? The iconic and ironic phrase "what could go wrong?" comes to mind.....

To Ban Fracking in Georgia. I have not been personally effected and want it to stay that way for the health and well being of our children.

New interstate 36" pipelines are sited close to existing structures in Class One of FERC. The Marcellus Shale gas industry destroys our environment and renders the taxpayers property useless. Spectra/ Texas Eastern will install their pipeline next to my house starting in January 2014. There is a history of safety issues with Spectra Energy, in 2011 DOT and PHMSA inspectors sited Spectra for 17 inadequacies in its pipeline safety operations and procedures. Pipeline explosions are becoming more common. Emergency units are not equipped nor trained to handle this type of disaster. The EPA needs to gain a better understanding of emissions and potential risks from the natural gas industry. Harmful pollutants emitted from these pipelines include air toxins such as benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylene;criteria pollutants and ozone precursors such as NOx and VOCs, greenhouse gases such as methane. These pollutants will result in serious health impacts. FERC (Federal Energy Commission) regulates every state. These rules and regulations take advantage of lower income and lower populated areas. This needs to be changed, without your signature the United States elected Officials will keep letting this happen. It must stop and you can help, by signing and sharing this petition.

The Delaware River has been a dramatic and constant feature of the local landscape for "a thousand, thousand years". It has been the place of life for all of the Lenape Tribes, a focal point for our Country's development as a Democracy and a part of the scenic and recreational landscape of modern society - BRINGING BEAUTY, WONDER AND AWE INTO OUR LIVES. With the drilling and fracturing of the shale flats in the river basin and environs we would be unleashing a massive force of disruption into the shale plates and introducing large quantities of undisclosed toxins into recreational and drinking water reserves - killing fish and wildlife, altering our natural beauty, destroying water that could be used for drinking, and opening a Pandora's Box of ills on future generations that will have no say in this type of energy development. We have far too many clean energy options available to us that would maintain what is left of the pristine beauty and awe of this epic piece of our natural lives. UNITE and help to stop the madness before it is too late. WE HAVE GOT TO STOP USING FOSSIL FUELS - EMITTING CARBONS - AND START USING CLEAN RENEWABLE ENERGY LIKE WIND AND SOLAR. Artists: Take the time to release pieces of your portfolios to the public that relay the deep and abiding connection between people and the land upon which we all stand. These critical chords of the sub-conscious sustain all people and we need to be reminded regularly. Nature prompts deep and abiding senses of awe, wonder, radical amazement and homeostasis. Here is my first poem on the Delaware, written in 1995 from the footbridge in Lumberville, PA. RIVER BENDING - We are not here long enough to watch the river change her shape. But she does. I have felt it. We can see her swell and dry, but we do not get to see her curl and cut and grow old. She is an old thing. She goes back a thousand, thousand years. We cannot see all the changes, but we can feel them. They are in there. Won't you sign on to our petition today to let lawmakers know we are not taking the recklessness of Fracking lightly. PLEASE READ BILL MCKIBBEN'S ARTICLE ON THE MATH OF WHERE WE ARE IN THIS GLOBAL CATASTROPHE. THESE THREE NUMBERS WILL ASTOUND YOU AND HOPEFULLY AWAKEN THE MASSES. http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/global-warmings-terrifying-new-math-20120719

The way of life we cherish in the Pikes Peak region is dependent on the beauty of our natural surroundings as well as the clean water and air our children drink and breathe as they grow up here. Fracking is an issue that continues to pose a well-documented threat to our resources, and we remain vigilant about that threat.

The US Forest Service is to release a 15 year land use management plan for the George Washington National Forest in which they can decide to either allow or prohibit horizontal drilling. Neglecting to prohibit this drilling could lead to natural gas companies exploiting the forest through hydraulic fracturing. Fracking would put our drinking water, air, and pristine forest in danger. This is unacceptable.

Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO’s) are controversial for a number of reasons. Questions regarding the raising of such large numbers of animals in confined spaces, the overuse of antibiotics, and the impact on consumers of meat typically dominate the public dialogue in regards to these “factory farms.” What is often neglected is the health impact that CAFO’s have on communities, both locally and globally. These effects include typical industrial pollution, inescapable foul odors, and the contamination of soil and water. With North Carolina in particular being home to so many of these operations, there is an exigent need to better quantify the damage these industrial-scale monstrosities have on health and human safety.