Contrary to what you may have heard, part of the Keystone XL pipeline is very close to going into operation. The Southern Leg of the Keystone Project, which Barack Obama has not only neglected to stop, but has signed an executive order to expedite, is only months from going into operation. When it does, it will commence its 700,000-850,000 oil-barrel-per-day assault on the climate even without the northern Keystone XL Pipeline being completed. Tell Obama not to let climate disasters like this happen on his watch.

PA Bill 1576 was proposed by Senator Pyle for easy land development. The bill allows the created Independent Regulatory Review Commission to "evaluate" Fish and Game's list of endangered species. By the bills order, the committee cannot protect any endangered species not already protected on the federal protected species list. This action removes most of PA's endangered species from protection.This committee is influenced by the gas and timber industries, thereby allowing companies to profit at the expense of our species and land. The hydraulic fracturing, drilling, and clear cutting following suite also presents major health concerns. To add species to the protected list will be near impossible because the new committee's process is designed to benefit profiteering.

This is one way to reduce our carbon footprint, saving our planet one neighborhood at a time.

It will be visually disruptive and we believe violates the "Resource Management Plan for the Soderberg Homestead Open Space" It also will not meet the goals outlined by the county to "provide more direct access to Horsetooth Falls and alleviate parking congestion at the upper trail head".

Climate scientists around the world are virtually unanimous in telling us that climate change is real, and serious, and nearing tipping points, beyond which we may never regain a livable climate. Climate change deniers are virtually unanimous in getting their information from those who profit from the current situation, and who are trying to perpetuate American confusion about climate. We need leadership from President Obama now, to end climate confusion, and to get Americans focused on climate progress.

Our founding fathers believed in and cultivated hemp. Erroneously labeled Marijuana, hemp was even revitalized as a helpmeet during WWII. We no longer should be hindered by the lobbies that would see hemp continue to afford no competition to the interests of Big steel, cotton, paper, food, fuel, and myriad building supplies.

Shell just announced a new plan to drill for oil in America’s Arctic waters in 2014. But it still hasn’t addressed embarrassing offshore drilling rig failures. We’ve already watched the company lose control of two different drill rigs in less than a year, with one of them catching fire and the other one running aground off the coast of Alaska. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is asking for comments as it considers another lease sale for offshore oil drilling in the Arctic. Tell them the risks of drilling in the Arctic Ocean are far too great and we cannot afford to open Chukchi Sea to more oil leasing. To add insult to injury, America’s Arctic is ground zero for climate change. It’s warming twice as fast as the rest of the world and if Shell and other Big Oil companies drill for oil in these remote waters, it would even further accelerate climate change. Offshore drilling in the Arctic leads to a cycle that reinforces climate disruption. Not only would burning oil produced from the region pump more carbon into the atmosphere, but the drilling operations themselves would emit black carbon or soot that would be deposited on the ice, where it does the most harm. Soot causes heat to be absorbed rather than reflected by the ice. Because the Arctic ice cap acts like a refrigerator for the planet, less Arctic sea ice means a warmer planet and a change in climate patterns. Drilling for oil in the Arctic Ocean is not consistent with a responsible course to combat climate change, something the president has committed to in his second term. Tell the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management not to hold any more lease sales in the Chukchi Sea and to reevaluate current plans to drill in these remote waters.

What is petcoke? Petcoke is a byproduct being produced in massive amounts across the Indiana border at the BP oil refinery. Petcoke is the resultant of refining darker Canadian oil from tar sands. Due to environmental laws that are more strict in Indiana, BP is shipping the toxic waste to be stored on the Illinois side via barge. The petcoke is being stored at KCBX a company owned by Koch Industries. Apparently the guidelines in Illinois allow KCBX to store this material in the open air. On windy days, the air is filled with huge swirling clouds of black petcoke, coating everything in this heavily populated area. Prolonged exposure creates asthmatic symptoms in as little as 24 months. People are unable to open their windows or enjoy a picnic in their backyards. This has regional impacts. Think it doesn't affect you? Take another drink of water. The petcoke is being stored on the banks of the Calumet River, which is a direct tributary and directly adjacent to Lake Michigan. The piles have already reached 4 to 5 stories in height. Lake Michigan serves drinking water to over 8 million Chicagoans and citizens of outlying areas. This has global impacts. The petcoke is being stored on the southside of Chicago until it can be shipped to foreign countries with more lax environmental laws. China has been the largest importer of petcoke. The petcoke is being used as an alternative to coal. The problem is that petcoke burns three times dirtier than coal. The mayor of Detroit kicked petcoke out of their area with the pressure of the people, and its not allowed to be stored in this manner in Indiana. This problem will not go away on it's own. BP is set to triple their production this coming year. Why are we subject to this poison? Tell Mayor Rham Emanuel to remove those petcoke piles. Tell the Koch brothers that Lake Michigan is not their dumping ground. We all have the right to clean air and drinking water.

Our waterways, neighborhoods and parks are littered with bottles and cans and Maryland’s recycling rate is far below the national average. The Bottle Bill would set up a 5 cent redeemable deposit on bottles and cans - we know this works because 10 other states have done it and they’ve all seen major increases in recycling and reductions in litter. We want to deliver 8,000 signatures to Governor O'Malley this fall so he hears loud and clear: We want a Maryland Bottle Bill.

Hydraulic Fracturing is an inherently dangerous, federally exempted oil/gas extraction process. It violates our intrinsic values with unforgiving, known to be hazardous, toxic chemicals that infect the air we breathe and the water we drink. It defaces and mutilates our natural environment causing irreparable harm to ancient underground rock formations, aquifers and precious groundwater. Such reckless disregard for our future and the future of our planet is intolerable. Fracturing and acidizing do not contribute a single benefit to our environmental well being. We deserve better. We can do better. We, the undersigned, do hereby call on the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors and the Governor for the State of California to Ban Hydraulic Fracturing now and in so doing provide the leadership that insures prosperity, health and safety for our future and future generations. Thank you.

88% of Americans want global warming reduced - AP poll, Dec 2012 - and 92% of Americans want food labeled - NYTimes poll, July 2013. THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE MUST PREVAIL. This petition demands a FEDERAL BUDGET that requires military spending be cut by $200 BL - less than one third - to be diverted to this initiative, developing a CLIMATE INFRASTRUCTURE, due to the national security risks of our climate change threat, as recognized by military leaders. This would fulfill Lester Brown's PLAN B, as described in his book, Plan B, 4.0, focusing on the restoration of US soil, forests and fisheries, encouraging population stabilization worldwide, adding in the new concern of ocean acidification. This CLIMATE INFRASTRUCTURE would also require the implementation of all 50 of the 100% Renewable Energy blueprints, state by state, starting with the one published in the Energy Policy Journal, in March 2013 for the state of NY, by Jacobson et al. The lead author of this series of blueprints is Stanford environmental engineer, Professor Mark Z. Jacobson. These 50 blueprints are now available at www.theSolutionsProject.org . This CLIMATE INFRASTRUCTURE further requires parallel action legislatively, with the passage of climate bills S329 and S332, putting a price on carbon and eliminating subsidies to Fossil Fuel, making the market fair to accelerate renewables into the market to reach 80% renewable energy by 2030, and headed towards 100% by 2050. This CLIMATE INFRASTRUCTURE would also require the passage of an updated Farm Bill, ensuring America is headed to being a 100% organic agricultural nation by 2050, making our food sources humanely and locally grown, with biodiversity, and to appropriate scale. This ensures our agricultural soil is nutritionally sound, and can reabsorb atmospheric carbon, currently at an atmospheric carbon level of 400 parts per million, drawing that level down to 350 parts per million, as determined necessary by climate and earth scientists globally, to stabilize planet Earth, making it habitable long-term, for all living forms. This CLIMATE INFRASTRUCTURE, to be reflected in our FEDERAL BUDGET, would determine for we Americans, the necessary balance of human activity with the natural world, for a sustainable and healthy future, showing global leadership, on this increasingly dangerous and growing threat to our long-term well-being.

Most of the boats currently operating from Kaanapali take their passengers to Honolua Bay. The removal of these restrictions could increase the number of daily visitors to the bay to over a 1000. This fragile bay is already at risk and these increases will absolutly cause further damage.