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.

Almost immediately after the August 24, 2013 spraying my wife came down with a bladder and throat irritations. Tests run on her urine confirmed the existence of numerous contaminates. The health of all Vermonters is at stake as well as the agricultural businesses in the state. The medical profession has ignored these complaints as well as government agencies. Check these sites for additional information: http://naturalsociety.com/chemtrails-obvious-overhead-pollutant-ignored-denied/ http://www.nationofchange.org/neurologist-warns-neurodegenerative-disease-surge-due-chemtrail-spraying-1378712902

The Fukushima nuclear meltdown was nearly THREE years ago and while we WAIT for Japan to handle the crisis, over 300 tons DAILY of radioactive water hemorrhages into our ocean, killing and contaminating every living thing in its path. This is unacceptable. It is now known that this is far worse (over 300 times say some scientists) than Chernobyl. Life as we ALL knew it before 3/11/11 is now OVER. If this were chemical warfare against children we would risk life and limb to assist. It IS chemical warfare as we do little while children in Japan fight for their lives against an invisible chemical opponent. 40% of them in the Fukushima area are experiencing toxic radioactive levels and some are now being diagnosed with thyroid cancer. Mr. President: We ask that you move mountains if necessary to help shut this down. Mobilize a large U.S. team, request nuclear scientists globally to network and assist, whatever it takes. But for the health of all, insist that Japan receive this desperately needed support. We MUST be able to handle reactor meltdowns and nuclear waste effectively or we have no business creating NEW nuclear power plants around the country! If you can't FIX IT, don't BUILD IT!

The Klamath National Forest is in charge of a critical biodiversity “hotspot” in Northern California that extends well into Southern Oregon: the SISKIYOU CREST. This petition asks the Forest Service to close and revegetate with native plants Forest Service Road 47N80, otherwise known as the Bee Camp Road. The Bee Camp Road is long defunct, boulder strewn and barely drivable, mostly by ATVs. Built to access the chromium mines in Hello Canyon in the 1940's, it is now a useless invasion of wild country. The Bee Camp Road begins at Cook and Green Pass and heads west paralleling the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT), and surrounded by roadless wildland on all sides. The road is adjacent to the Cook and Green Pass Botanical Area and the Seiad Baker Cypress Botanical Area. The area is designated "back country" by the Klamath National Forest, and all Forest Service management direction in the area emphasizes backcountry and botanical values, wildlife, late successional reserves, and non-motorized recreation. The Bee Camp Road represents an obstacle for wilderness designation; it is a seed source for noxious and non-native weeds; it disrupts the feeling of solitude and isolation in the Red Buttes Wilderness, the Kangaroo Roadless Area, and on the PCT. It also disturbs the abundant wildlife in the area because the road allows access for motorized vehicles, poachers, and others who seek to do harm. The Red Buttes region is the wild central core of the Siskiyou Crest, with the Condrey Mountain Roadless Area to the east and the Siskiyou Wilderness to the west. The Bee Camp Road is the only road still open to vehicular use from Cook and Green Pass to Sundown Gap, a distance of approximately 20 miles. More info and opportunity for added comments can be found as follows. See ttp://thesiskiyoucrest.blogspot.com/2013/05/close-bee-camp-road.html Comments may be submitted in a variety of ways. You may leave a message with your comment on the Travel Management Information Line at 530-841-4597. Hard copy comment forms are available at all Klamath National Forest offices and also on the web at http://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb5423782.pdf. You may also submit your comments directly into the travel management comment database by going to https://cara.ecosystem-management.org/Public/CommentInput?project=42227. Individual letters or emails are also welcome and may be submitted to the Klamath National Forest, 1711 S. Main Street, Yreka, CA 96097 Attn: Motorized Travel Management Update, or to [email protected] .

Save the Beartooth front! We, the citizens of South-Central Montana and others who love to travel here, declare that we will NOT stand by and allow our beloved landscape to be fracked for oil and gas. We do not need or want anything akin to the Bakken disaster in OUR backyard. Our land and water are at stake, and therefore our tourism and agricultural economies, not to mention our cherished outdoors that make this such a special place to live. We call upon John Mork and his Energy Corporation of America to leave Montana, the last best place. Thank you to all who sign. Deb Muth, Chair Carbon County Resource Council Carbon County Resource Council, the local chapter of Northern Plains Resource Council, aims to bring together the hundreds of people who have begun to cry out in response to news that we may be facing the disaster of fracking here in the Beartooths and Big Horn river basin. Northern Plains Resource Council is a grassroots conservation and family agriculture group. We organize Montana citizens to protect our water quality, family farms and ranches, and unique quality of life.

These chemicals are used all over Maui for sugar cane production and should be banned. The cane is grown a short distance from a major portion of Maui's population. The health and safety of the citizens of Maui, especially our children, are being harmed and threatened by these dangerous chemicals.

The black rhino is a critically endangered, but very beautiful animal. The Dallas Safari Club however, is deciding it wants to sell the right to kill one in Namibia. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, shockingly, is cooperating fully with this senseless act. Please sign, and let's try to save a black rhino together.

Cruelty to marine life.

Gov. Abercrombie has pulled the nominations. GOOD WORK!!!