Energy production in the USA is critical to support our commerce and economic systems. It has become a matter of national security as well. It is imperative that we catch up to the advancement in green electrical production by other countries - like Germany among others - which are successfully generating a large percentage of their electricity this way. Not only is this a necessary economic solution but it is also a much needed advancement in the reduction of pollutants that aggravate Global Warming. It is also necessary in order to reduce the danger that nuclear power plants pose to the survival of the species.

We are angry at the hubris of the New Jersey Turnpike Authority and the misery they have wrought on the communities that live along the NJ Garden State Parkway. This huge construction project they are conducting coined as a "Safety Project" has destroyed hundreds of trees exposing communities to the nonstop heavy traffic that travels the Parkway. This has exposed the adjacent communities to excessive levels of noise and fumes that endangers their health, destroys their sleep, the value of their homes, and their very quality of life.

I have started this petition because I am a scientist and a mother who cares about my family and other families. The objective science clearly demonstrates the significant harm GMOs and the associated 200 fold increase in herbicide/pesticide use has caused. Everyone has been touched by cancers... Celiac.... Type 2 diabetes... All things that our get grandparents never knew at these rates. Cancer is now the number one killer of our precious children. It is no coincidence that the health crisis associated with the increase of these life stealing diseases, coincides perfectly with the introduction and proliferation of GMOs in our food supply.

The federal government continues to throw money at oil companies that are making record profits. We need to bring down the debt and reign down on irresponsible oil companies that fail to invest in the future of energy.

Our beautiful county is being targeted by the oil and gas industry for one of their hit and run incidents. Drill'em and Build'em! Loud, noisy drilling rigs can be placed in our fragile riparian areas. Drilling can threaten our drinking water. We are threatened with noisy 24/7 compression plants, pipelines through pastures and wetlands favored by hunters, wild lands, and river ways. We need clean healthy air to breath and clean, safe water to drink. We need to insure there will be no fracking to poison our water sources. Time to act is very short. Strong ordinances need to be in place before drilling begins.

Seneca's Biomass Plant (repeatedly fined for violations) is now requesting a permit for major pollution level increases, purchasing unused 'pollution credits' from other plants, which will push it from a "minor" to "Major" source of pollutants under the Federal Clean Air Act. It's pollution controls for nitrogen oxides were "switched off" for seven months, and it seeks to increase hazardous emissions of hydrogen chloride, formaldehyde, acrolein, styrene, and carbon monoxide,' pumping 24/7 - (the latter alone 25,000 tons/week.) EPA says"'particulates' can aggravate asthma, bronchitis, lung disease, heart disease, and lead to premature death of health-sensitive people, including the very young and very old." The health of our children and elders should be top priority, and this permit and purchase of "pollution credits" should be stopped. How can the potential for "premature death" of our most vulnerable youth and elderly be either permissable or negotiable? We have only until November 22nd to respond.

Fracking requires tons of water to be mixed with toxic chemicals and pumped under ground at high pressure to crack the rock that naturally separates the gas from our water and air ways. The toxic waste water that doesn't remain in the ground must then be disposed of, and there is no good place to keep it. Farms and ranches in Pennsylvania and Ohio have been destroyed after fracking came to their land. Fracking is an energy intensive, invasive, unsafe way of harvesting fossil fuels that contribute to climate change. Frack wells release methane gas, a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide, into the atmosphere. We need better energy alternatives than this if we expect to leave a decent planet for our children. Keep fracked gas and fracking infrastructure out of Maine!

I have 3 grandsons who love to play vigorously outdoors--to play team sports, to swim and to run around the park playground. Whether they--and their children--will continue to enjoy the outdoors will be determined by whether or not oil companies exploit their current reserves. Climate experts tell us the planet will face catastrophic and irreversible temperature increases if we don't stop burning fossil fuels immediately. CalSTRS can pressure the fossil fuel industry to relinquish these future profits--and avoid financial calamity when this "carbon bubble" bursts--by divesting now. Investing instead in green energy companies will speed the day when alternative, sustainable energy replaces grossly overvalued oil.

Consumers have the right to know what they are eating. We are working now to affect the elections on this in Hawaii: Early Walk-In Voting - General Election OCTOBER 21, 2014 - NOVEMBER 1, 2014 GENERAL ELECTION NOVEMBER 4, 2014 7:00am - 6:00pm MAHALO FOR SIGNING & SHARING!

It is obvious that the Nuclear Power industry is insolvent. The upcoming Waste Confidence ruling, Senate bill S1240 funneling escrow waste money back to the nuclear industry through the new "Nuclear Waste Administration", and the upcoming ruling on Foreign Ownership of our Nuclear Reactors are strong indication that we need citizen activist participation on the commission and a FULL accounting of this heavily citizen subsidized industry.

Isn't it unnecessary to destroy a mature fir tree every year for the holidays at Rockefeller Center? Shouldn't the city transplant a permanent fir tree and leave it there? That way the city's tree would always be taller than the previous year and no more wonderful mature trees would have to die! It would be the perfect symbolic act given the Mayor's Million trees NYC initiative.

Fracking kills. It poisons our water and creates vast regions of desolation from man-made earthquakes. It is financed by corporations that wield a dangerous amount of influence and control over our lawmakers. These corporations care nothing for the welfare of their workers or for the people who live in communities devastated by fracking. We reject their power and we reject all forms of fracking!