Prices for gasoline and heating fuel are unjustifiably higher than the national average which seriously impacts the cost of living and the quality of life for all Nome residents.

Your spin-off, Matson Shipping carelessly pumped 1,400 tons of molasses in Honolulu harbor causing the worst marine disaster in Hawaii's history. Fish are dead. There's no way to clean it up. The entire ecosystem has been destroyed. For decades your subsidiary, HC&S, has ignored the lung disease your daily sugarcane burning has caused. Maui has the second highest asthma rate in the nation. HC&S burns 9 months out of the year and let smoke fill our homes and schools on a regular basis. You refuse to no-burn harvest which you can do (and do on some days) because you would have to hire more workers and it would decrease your profit. You operate 3 coal-fired boilers with no continuous monitoring, which spew SO2 and heavy metals on to the towns where the biggest population of our local children reside. You spread Diuron herbicide on your cane fields which runs into the ocean and is killing our reefs. You take more than your share of Maui's scarce water away from the Hawaiian taro farmers and dry up the streams of East Maui. Your operations have polluted the groundwater aquifers under your fields. You've bought out our politicians and no laws exist to control your bad environmental behavior. STOP your greedy destruction of our beautiful islands. 10/27 Update: Another molasses spill. This time Maui's Kahului Harbor. Same HC&S sugar. Same A&B infrastructure.

We can no longer ignore the impending danger to our planet and retirement funds by burning fossil fuel at the current rate. The atmosphere can absorb no more than 565 gigatons of CO2 before 2050. The fossil fuel industries already have the capacity in their reserves to burn 2795 gigatons.(5x the safety limit) and, at our current rate of emissions, we will reach the limit in 15 years. To ensure a livable planet for our children, 80% of the fossil fuel reserves have to stay in the ground. These reserves are already counted as assets--hence the looming carbon bubble will have to pop if we are to save the planet. CalSTRS should not make any new investments in fossil fuels and should divest from all fossil fuels within 5 years.

My home and storage room are weighed down with printed books that take space and generate dust. With modern technology, it makes sense to have most of these books in electronic format. However, it doesn't make economic sense to pay full price for electronic copies of books that we've already purchased in print format.

Valuable farmland and pastoral countryside would be adversely affected by the presence of the huge power poles and the potential for stray voltage. There would be absolutely no benefit to residents along this line, which could easily be avoided by implementing alternative energy sources.

On Friday, dangerous, last-minute amendments were attached to Senator Fran Pavley's fracking bill, SB 4. With these added amendments. The amendments give state regulators authority to exempt fracking from California's strongest and most important environmental law: the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).

With current gridlock in Congress, and no action on our climate threat, it is becoming clear, that cities and states now hold in their power, a chance to take significant action. With the global mark of 400 parts per million of atmospheric carbon being passed in May 2013, it is clearly time to accelerate the 100% renewable agenda, at the city level. With blueprints now being published by Jacobson et al, for states to go 100% renewable, by 2030, cities are appropriate places to start. All 50 state blueprints are available at www.theSolutionsProject.org . Six states have legislation to create CCAs or Community Choice Aggregation, like Marin and Sonoma counties have, or are setting up, in CA. The 5 other states are IL, MA, OH, NJ and RI. See more details at Marin Clean Energy: https://mcecleanenergy.com . Creating a CCA enables a city, then its surrounding county, to facilitate more renewables into the market.

BPA is in our plastic bottles and the lining of most canned foods and drinks. Years of research prove BPA to be a major carcinogen causing brain and other tumors, premature cell death, and it mimics various hormones in dangerous ways. CANCER IS AN EPIDEMIC IN THIS COUNTRY AND ITS CAUSES MUST BE STOPPED. The EPA today took BPA off its list of "chemicals of concern," along with several others including PDBE's. We want STUDY OF THESE CHEMICALS CONTINUED AND THEIR USES IN OUR FOOD CHAIN BANNED!

Thank you for joining us in seizing this great opportunity to expand the benefits of solar energy to all the firestations in Santa Fe County!

The Commonwealth of MA. Dept. of Transportation has recently announced formal plans to rebuild-in-place the Bowker Overpass in Charlesgate Park, Boston, beginning in early 2014. The Overpass, which was constructed in 1967, slices through and destroyed the Charlesgate Park, a key section of the Olmsted Emerald Necklace (a National Registry of Historic Places site); destroyed an essential & fragile wetlands, the Muddy River basin where it meets the Charles River; and creates a strong negative impact on the quality of life in the surrounding historic and revitalizing neighborhoods of Back Bay West, Kenmore, and Bay State Road. We are asking the Commonwealth to cease and desist from this massive project; to perform minimal repairs to keep the Bowker safe and operational until the issue of Removal is addressed in a meaningful way (and not in the 10-20 year framework DOT is suggesting.) The DOT could save millions in ongoing repairs if the Bowker was removed and the roadway brought to grade. Removal would help reestablish the fragile wetlands and parkland of the Charlesgate/Muddy River basin (now a stagnant and polluted wasteland); would facilitate further economic revitalization around the Kenmore section of Boston; and would re-emphasize the historic nature of this beautiful residential neighborhood as well as give us back our beautiful parkland. A rebuild would exacerbate all the negative elements mentioned and, while pandering to the economic pressures of MASCO and other business powerhouses, is ultimately not in the best interests of the City of Boston or the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Please help us make our state and federal officials know what a terrible idea the Bowker rebuild project is and demand its removal now. (For more in-depth information on the Bowker Overpass & the Charlesgate park, please look at our website: cgatepark.com

This perpetual war in the Middle East and North Africa is now poisoning our Souls and Planet. Leaders and Citizens at every level of society need to demand an immediate end to Carbon Pollution (Big Oil will enjoy a guilt-free future of infinite security in the plastics and other petroleum products markets), transition to Biofuels and Electric transportation, cover the Middle East with Solar Panels and Windmills powering the entire Eurasian/African Supercontinent, and discontinue Nuclear Power except for Military and Outer Space exploration.

Our children should not be exposed to smoking at the town's recreational fields. The kids are there to play sports and be involved in fitness. What kind of message does it send them that we allow smoking at these events? It is also disturbing the health of those by standers that do not smoke.