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.

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!