The proposal to base F-35 jet fighters at Burlington International Airport will not have any devastating impact on the surrounding communities or the people who live in them, as is documented in the Air Force's own Environmental Impact Statement. The Air National Guard also provides the air port services in the tune of $5 million a year on runway services/repairs. They have also been great tenants and provide great service to the state of Vermont. Being award the F-35 is a great honor and shows that the hard work and dedication by the unit has been noticed. On Monday, October 7th, the Burlington City Council will be voting on a resolution, forced on them by the opposition, to try to bar the F-35 from basing at BIAP. Please sign the petition urging city councilors to NOT support the resolution. And if you live in Burlington, please contact your ward representative today! http://www.burlingtonvt.gov/CityCouncil/City-Councilors

There is little media coverage of the catastrophic risks involved in storing and especially moving fuel rods from Fukushima Unit #4. TEPCO and the Japanese Government have not been open about the damage. The risk of an uncontrolled fission reaction releasing radiation equal to 85 times that of Chernobyl is deemed highly probable by experts. I am starting this due to my concern for the future of life on earth. This danger is more immediate, and more deadly, even than climate change.

The lake and the park are major attractions of this community so it is important for all residents to have accessibility and safety. The recent construction removed crosswalks, park paths and pedestrian routes used to access the park. Instead, they put in park and lake access for future residents of the Lakeside Development project. We now have to travel convoluted routes and climb steep hills to reach what is only a few hundred feet from us. Requesting Full Access and Inclusion for All.

Worldwide the melting of the Arctic is already causing extreme weather patterns, increasing temperatures and altering jet streams. The rise in global temperatures is leading to the thawing of ice in Greenland and Antarctica. This immense melting will drastically raise sea levels condensing our world population into smaller and more climate stressed areas. Couple this with the increasing acidity and heating of the world’s oceans, the dangers and damages of unpredictable severe weather catastrophes, the implications for agriculture and global food supply shortages and the extreme loss of habitat for wildlife and our children will be faced with a world we never imagined possible. As the Arctic’s tundra thaws, a host of compounding problems may arise. The soon to be exposed Arctic permafrost contains 1.5 trillion tons of carbon and in moist /wet areas this will produce methane emissions. Unfortunately methane is 20 - 25 times more capable of retaining heat than the well known green house gas carbon dioxide. The exposure of these potent green house gasses by the thawing of the Arctic’s ice will cause the world’s green house effect to intensify and multiply and further increase global temperatures. Our children may very well see countries fight over life sustaining resources such as food and water in their life times. As a citizen of the United States and a parent I feel utter dismay that our planet has been allowed to enter such a time of unprecedented environmental crisis. Continued purposeful inaction by our government will result in the deaths of billions of people and environmental and economic collapse. The time has come for President Obama to take his position as the leader of a world power. Mr. President, please take immediate action to development and implement a global plan to prevent the loss of Arctic ice and halt the warming of our planet. Please address the American Public on the consequences and enormous implications of our planet’s increasing temperatures and the loss of the Arctic Ice. We understand that the time has come for sacrifices to be made by all the world’s people. We can no longer allow economics and greed to sacrifice our futures.

To save the California Delta from politicians and wealthy interests ruining the California Delta that should have been made into a national park. Governor Brown, Southern California water districts, and the federal government have teamed up to hook up three intake plants to the Sacramento River to suck water into two huge 30 mile long underground canals southward to L.A. and San Diego.

Fracking is inherently dangerous. Negative effects of fracking that have been proven in other states include everything from water contamination, air pollution, methane release contributing to Global Warming, decimated national forest lands, residents and livestock getting sick, wildlife deaths, earthquakes, radioactive waste, truck accidents and rural lifestyles being degraded. The IL Dept. of Natural Resources is formulating rules for fracking at this time, they will be published soon. We, the concerned residents of Illinois, request public hearings on this dangerous extraction method so that our concerns will be heard by our state government and acted upon before fracking is allowed to harm our environment or our neighbors.

We need development on Potrero Avenue that fits the neighborhood.

My husband and I have a small self-sufficient farm within a few hundred feet of the proposed rezoning. This rezoning is contrary to the spirit of Oregon's land use laws. It paves the way for allowing transfer of hazardous materials without public input!

My friends and I are concerned about the Bureau of Reclamation's plan to raise Shasta Dam. The raising of Shasta Dam will flood sacred native sites, demolish existing habitat for endangered species, destroy existing resorts and marinas, dislocate the town of Lakehead, CA and impact our local economy in a negative manner.

Fracking is currently prohibited in the state of New York while the risks of this fossil fuel extraction process are studied. According to that state's health commissioner, "The time to ensure the impacts on public health are properly considered is before a state permits drilling." We agree. That's why, here in California, we're urging the Bureau of Land Management to continue its moratorium on new oil lease sales while it studies fracking's threats to the Golden State. Nationwide the Bureau estimates that 90 percent of new oil and gas wells on federal land are fracked. In California much of the Monterey Shale's estimated 15.4 billion barrels of frackable oil is under federal lands. All that fracking potential means our cherished public lands face severe air and water pollution, animal and plant species that depend on those lands face habitat loss, and humans living and recreating on or near these public lands suffer many health threats. The best way to protect these national treasures, as well as our climate, is to simply prohibit this inherently dangerous form of fossil fuel extraction -- and what better place to start than by banning fracking on our public lands? In California we have the chance to take one big step toward that goal. Please take action now to tell the BLM to maintain its hold on new oil and gas leasing on California's public lands.

The Enbridge Flanagan South Pipeline has been rushed through the permit process to build a pipeline in 11 counties in Missouri without opportunity for public comment. This will affect the drinking water throughout the entire state. 100% of scientists agree the fossil fuel industry is primarily responsible for global warming. To continue putting human life, and all life now and future at risk, is unethical and immoral, when clean energy solutions are available and are cost effective.

The entire global community needs to get together NOW to contain the worst of the damage at Fukushima Daichi. Reactor #4 is in dire shape, with 1300 spent fuel rods dangling 100 feet above the ground, on top of a building that is irreparably damaged. TEPCO and Japan can't handle the overwhelmingly complicated problem by themselves. I personally don't want to breathe irradiated air from Fukushima, nor should the rest of the world, for decades to come -- we must act now to prevent medical emergencies all over the world!