The KY state government is supposed to oversee the proper use of this money and has instead voted to spend 2.5 million from the dwindling fund to renovate the UK Basketball arena in Lexington. Meanwhile coal-impacted communities struggle to fund education, necessary infrastructure repairs, and clean drinking water. This is shameful. Stand with the KY Student Environmental Coalition to oppose wasteful spending of coal severance taxes and to demand transparency on the ways that severance monies are allocated.

The management of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear site demands a team of the world's best scientists and engineers, and sufficient financial resources to attempt to handle the situation. We are concerned that Tokyo Electric Power Company is not best suited for removing the hot fuel rods from Fukushima Unit Four or doing what needs to be done the site as a whole.

Ever since the Keystone XL pipeline was first proposed, the Environmental Protection Agency has been a strong voice inside the Obama administration, insisting that the State Department’s environmental review of Keystone XL consider the climate impacts of Canadian tar sands development. But there are now troubling signs that the EPA may be bowing to pressure to back off its critical comments on this biased review. Two days ago, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy echoed a favorite talking point of pipeline proponents to The Boston Globe when she said that oil from the Alberta tar sands will find its way to market with or without Keystone XL. If we don’t act, this could be the first step in EPA moving towards accepting the pipeline. Please send a letter to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy asking that the EPA stand strong on Keystone XL.

Sustainability and energy usage are issues among the most important issues being faced today. It is vital that institutes of higher learning such as the University of Kentucky step up and take leadership regarding these issues. As the University of Kentucky grows and invests in its campus, energy and sustainability must be made a serious priority. Now is the time to start making the crucial transition.

Congress must form and commission a special committee to identify the worst offenders of the manufacturing of products that are currently filling up our landfills and oceans at an unsustainable rate, and pass laws that force these companies to change the way they package their products. Whales are washing up on our beaches with bellies full of plastic trash. The abhorrent conditions in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch threaten the sustainability, health and the future of human life on this planet, but is also a threat to the American Economy and costs millions of dollars to various industries each year by killing fish and destroying equipment. This absolutely cannot go on.

I am personally affected by chemtrials. My eyes burn, my skin itches, my sinuses are badly affected, my breathing is strained and I am losing my memory because of these horrid horrid things. My 7year old daughter forgets what she is saying mid sentence when these things are sprayed!!! She is also affected the same way.

Carbon dioxide causes climate change. It increases temperature and it accelerates the water cycle. Higher temperatures bake pollution already in our air into ground level ozone, causing 3,800 premature deaths every year in America. In the words of EPA head Gina McCarthy, “One thing we know for sure: when the weather gets hotter, smog gets worse, and people of all ages suffer.” The United States needs to burn less coal to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. The coal industry and the 160 climate-change-denying members of congress that accept their donations complain less coal burning will raise the cost of energy. These same individuals complain about a lagging energy market. A lagging energy market means people are using less energy. This is a good thing! Energy efficiency needs to be institutionalized. Our environment simply cannot withstand the impact of a robust fossil fuel market. The EPA needs to construct a plan to use less energy and lower carbon dioxide emissions. They need congressional support.

The Red Knot is a small, plump, reddish shorebird - and a true wonder of nature. With a wing span of only 20 inches, these tiny explorers migrate almost 20,000 miles each and every year. But the Red Knot population has declined almost 90% since 1989. It went from being among North America’s most abundant bird species to the brink of extinction in less than 20 years. Climate change, overfishing of horse shoe crabs (their key food source) and other factors are to blame - but now it's up to us to save them. The US Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed to protect the Red Knot rufa under the Endangered Species Act. Doing so would not only benefit the Red Knot, but other shorebirds since many other species have similar long migrations and are declining due to habitat pressures. But in order for The FWS to follow through on this recommendation to turn into a real listing your help is needed. The 90-day public comment period closes soon and before it does we need as many people as possible to support strong protections for these miraculous fliers. The Red Knot is just one of many species threatened with extinction in our country. From beetles to birds to bats hundreds, if not thousands of animals are disappearing. The Red Knot rufa could easily become one of them if action is not taken today. Do your part to keep another species from disappearing. Extinct means forever. You can learn more about the Red Knot at our Facebook page facebook.com/FriendsoftheRedKnot Or our website: http://www.friendsoftheredknot.org/

This petition is necessary because the Japanese government has been denying the gravity of the problem and therefore not giving it the attention it deserves.

Wolves are just now beginning to recover in the United States and Secretary Jewell has made a politically-motivated decision to placate special interests in the ranching and sporting communities to strip gray wolves of vital protections. Without these safeguards, wolves will never recover in most of the United States.

It is difficult to sleep at night knowing our very lives and the lives of our children are in TEPCO's hands. We demand that our government protect us now. Call Pres. Obama at the White House (202) 456-1111 and send a personal email to Sec. of Energy Moniz: [email protected] TELL THEM TO TAKE OVER THE FUEL REMOVAL and to CONTAIN FUKUSHIMA WITHOUT DUMPING RADIOACTIVE WATER INTO THE GLOBAL PACIFIC. We should not have to beg for this. Write a letter to the editor of your newspaper too!

Pesticides pose serious health risks to children, to the Chesapeake Bay and local waterways and to honeybees. Maryland researchers need basic information about when and where pesticides are being used so they can investigate any potential links to intersex fish, beehive deaths and clusters of serious illnesses like cancer, autism, asthma and birth defects. Contact Governor O’Malley today and ask him to strongly support this much-needed mandatory pesticide reporting database. Tell the Governor that for our health, for the health of our kids, for clean waters, and for our honeybees we need basic information on pesticide use. Find out more: http://www.mdpestnet.org/take-action/smart-on-pesticides-maryland/