TO EXPOSE THEM FOR WHAT THEY ARE, HEARTLESS SELL OUT, MONEY IS THEIR GOD!!!

The megaloads are manufactured outside the US, are shipped to the Inland Northwest, and then transported via highways through Idaho and Montana to the Alberta Tar Sands. The Alberta Tar Sands have destroyed the resources of the First Nations people of Canada. We cannot support or allow this injustice to continue. Also, our land in the US is worth protecting! Here are the top 20 reasons US Hwy 12 is worth protecting: 1. Runs through the Nez Perces' ancient homeland. 2.The Nez Perce National Historic Park is located here, including the headquarters and museum 3. Nationally designated the Northwest Passage Scenic Byway. 4. Nationally designated 1 of the nation's 27 All-American Roads. 5. Crosses and parallels for 80+ miles the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail. 6. Crosses and parallels for 80+ miles the Nez Perce National Historic Trail. 7. Runs for 70+ miles beside 2 nationally designated Wild and Scenic Rivers, the Middle Fork of the Clearwater and the Lochsa, and provides access to a 3rd, the Selway River. 8. Travels beside and provides access to the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness, one of the nation's most cherished wilderness areas. 9. National - even international - reknown of the Lochsa River for its world-class spring whitewater. 10. Named by Motorcycle Magazine as the #1 recreational motocycle route in the nation (many curves, much beauty). 11. Comprises a segment of the nationally recognized TransAmerica Bicycle Route. 12. Bisects the old growth Bernard Devoto Cedar Grove. 13. Crosses the Pacific Coast Disjunct Area, which includes rare plants for Idaho environs. 14. Lies within yards of USFS campgrounds, dispersed campsites, USFS and Nat'l Park Service interpretive sites, beaches and picnic sites. 15. Provides access to suspension bridges and dozens of trails used by hunters, fishers and wilderness trekkers and horseback riders, including access to the Idaho Bicentennial Trail and the Lochsa River Historical Trail. 16. Provides access to the Lochsa Historical Ranger Station, the McBeth House, historical churches, Big Eddy Marina at Dworshak Reservoir, and Spalding Park. 17. Runs alongside streams providing habitat of vital importance to salmon, steelhead, eel, bass and trout fisheries. 18. Runs through the wild habitats of a myriad of birds and other wildlife. 19. Runs for miles as a narrow, winding, shoulderless roadway within feet of rivers that provide domestic water supplies for 3 towns: Kamiah, Orofino and Lewiston. 20. Provides both an access route and a destination for travelers/tourists and recreationists who spend millions of dollars annually at over 150 small businesses, Lewiston to Lolo Pass, as part of the single growing industry of the corridor communities which comprise an economically depressed region of Idaho. (www.FightingGoliath.org)

The fact is that the Keystone XL project is not good for Americans, the environment, and does not add many permanent jobs. The pros just don't outweigh the cons for the American people.

Climate change is real. It is urgent. Its devastating effects are already being felt the world over, and threaten to escalate into potential catastrophe for our children and grandchildren.

Unless world leaders and top scientists focus their full attention on solving the ongoing problems at the Fukushima Nuclear Plant then life as we know it will not continue. Fukushima continues to spill radioactive waste into the Pacific Ocean and if this spill is not contained swiftly then the Pacific Ocean and everything it touches will be contaminated with radiation, which will result in the deaths of millions of people. Those of us living in the Western U.S., like myself, my family, and my friends, will lose our lives and our loved ones early as radiation sickness spreads.

Scott Walker is allowing a 22 mile-long, 1000 foot-deep strip mine to proceed in Northern Wisconsin's Penokee Hills region, which contains the headwaters of the Bad River and Lake Superior. The mine could cause asbestos dust and sulfuric acid leeching that would destroy the Bad River reservation, as well as many other downstream ecosystems. The mining company isn't earning our trust either - they've used private paramilitary groups for security, and Walker's DNR has pressured an educational camp be criminally prosecuted for studying the mine. We have a cabin nearby and grew up taking our kids to this beautiful, special, and sacred place. Please help us save it. --Betsy Bacon, Cornucopia, WI

I'm a beekeeper so I am deeply concerned that neonicotinoid pesticides and systemic genetically modified organism acting as honey bee killers are not being properly regulated. If we aren't yet smart enough to protect our food system by protecting nature's best pollinator -- the honey bee -- then I hope we are smart enough to eliminate our local supermarkets as the end-user delivery system for pesticides in our food. Pesticide traces in the urine of children eating conventionally grown produce? Unacceptable. Pesticide traces found in fetal umbilical fluid? Unacceptable. We need GMO labeling laws now. This is the first step in recognizing that the problem of pesticides is a major health threat to human beings, too. I am reaching out to my representatives Senator Leanna Washington and Senator Shirley Kitchen to support a GMO labeling initiative in Pennsylvania. GMO labeling laws in Pennsylvania now.

Flowing from the high snowfields and glaciers of Mt. Baker, Mt. Shuksan, and the Twin Sisters range in the North Cascades, the Nooksack River system is one of the rare gems of Washington state. The Nooksack is home to all five species of Pacific salmon, steelhead and bull trout, bald eagles, black bears, cougars, elk, and many other fish and wildlife species that rely on intact wild places like the Nooksack to survive. Cold rushing waters, incredible mountain views, and old-growth forests provide world-class whitewater boating, hiking, camping, and other recreation opportunities. Yet incredibly, the majority of the North, Middle and South Forks of the Nooksack River and its major tributaries remain unprotected. This Keep the Nooksack River Wild petition is targeting relevant Members of Congress to champion Wild and Scenic River legislation which, if enacted, would permanently protect the free-flowing nature and excellent water quality of the upper forks of the Nooksack River. A Wild and Scenic designation would also support salmon, steelhead and bull trout recovery efforts, promote sustainable recreation, and require transparent and collaborative management of the river. If you would like more information about the river and how it supports the local communities, visit: http://www.americanrivers.org/nooksack-river.

The taxpayers voted for Prop A, which provided grant funding from L.A. County for cities to improve existing park facilities and for the purchase of open space land. Now our local officials want to take that open space land and turn it back into an oil field. The oil companies and City of Whittier were sued by the Mountain Recreation Conservation Authority (MRCA), L.A. County, and Santa Monica Mountain Conservancy (SMMC). The MRCA, which is part of the Santa Monica Mountain Conservancy (SMMC), won the lawsuit against the oil companies and the City of Whittier. The judge stopped the oil project. Now the MRCA has sold out to Matrix Oil by settling with them. The SMCC will get royalties of up to $11.25 million a year to buy land in wealthy communities like Malibu, and the residents of Whittier will be sickened from oil drilling. How can they say they protect open spaces when they now exploit them? The Mountain Recreation Conservation Authority (MRCA) has opened a Pandora's box regarding land use changes with this settlement. Their decision has implications for the entire state of California. The L.A. County Board of Supervisors can stop this. Please e-mail both Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky and Mark Ridley-Thomas and tell them not to settle. They need to protect people and the environment.

Oak Hills Park is a city park in Norwalk, CT occupied primarily by an 18-hole golf course. Approximately 7-10 acres of natural woodlands are located within the park's boundaries behind the restaurant parking lot. The Oak Hills woodlands comprise hundreds of mature trees and are situated on a steep slope including a rock ledge and bordered by a wetland, forming habitat for many species of wildlife. In 1999 and again in 2012-2013, the woodlands were threatened by Oak Hills Park Authority's plan to construct a golf driving range on this site. At its August 15, 2013 meeting, Oak Hills Park Authority voted unanimously to *NOT* pursue the driving range proposal in this location, and to work instead with a developer proposing a driving range on existing golf course acreage near the first tee. While we applaud Oak Hills Park Authority's decision not to destroy the woodlands at this time, we don't want to have to fight this fight again. Therefore we call upon Norwalk's Mayor, Common Council, Oak Hills Park Authority, and other governing bodies to designate the woodlands in Oak Hills Park as permanent open space, to preserved, conserved, and protected from development in perpetuity. The League of Women Voters of Norwalk voted on September 16 to advocate protecting the woodlands as permanent open space. This position is in accord with the LWVUSA position on land use and open space.

Uphold Oregon statute ORS 634.322 (6) (c) which states, in part, that the State Department of Agriculture “is authorized to establish limitations and procedures deemed necessary and proper for the protect of…pollinating insects, bees” by making permanent the 180 day temporary ban on systemic neonicotinoids which are implicated worldwide in colony collapse in a mounting body of scientific evidence.

The Fukushima disaster is not only far worse than you've been told; it's very likely going to be worse than you could ever imagine. The radiation leak isn't plugged, in other words, and another explosion -- which many experts believe might be imminent -- would release thousands of times more nuclear material into the open environment. Ultimately, the entire Northern hemisphere has been placed at risk by a bunch of corporate bureaucrats who thought building a nuclear facility in the path of a sure-to-happen tidal wave was a fantastic idea. Instead of acknowledging the problem and working to fix it like a responsible person would, our world's top politicians and ass-coverers have decided it is in their best short-term interests to play along with the TEPCO fairy tale which ridiculously pretends that radioactive leaks can be controlled by wishful thinking.