Prevention is easier than mitigation. There is a proposed LNG pipeline slated to begin construction here in 2014, which would put our waterways in jeopardy. We are trying to block it.

My three year old daughter and I live just across the Columbia River from the Port of Vancouver. On Monday July 22nd, the Port Commission will be considering a proposal from the Tesoro oil giant to build an oil export facility in the Port of Vancouver that would potentially ship up to 360,000 barrels of crude oil every day along the Columbia River. This oil would release more than 56 million metric tons of carbon pollution every year — as much as the annual emissions of 12 million cars. And it would put the Vancouver metro area at risk for environmental contamination, disastrous oil spills, and health problems like asthma and other respiratory diseases. This oil export terminal would be a major a step backwards for the entire Pacific Northwest. Tesoro’s proposal could put as many as 1,400 trains per year — four full trains of oil every day — on route through Vancouver neighborhoods. These trains would carry the same kind of oil that tragically exploded, devastating the community, after a train derailment in Lac-Megantic, Quebec just weeks ago. We cannot take this risk for our communities in the Pacific Northwest. As parents, grandparents, and families, we expect our leaders to promote energy that is kid safe and climate safe. To turn the tide on climate change, we need to make a rapid transition to clean, renewable energy. Tesoro’s proposed export would facility incentivize more extraction of dirty fossil fuels, only deepening our oil dependence at home and abroad. We need to focus on energy projects that don’t make our kids sick or threaten our communities by worsening climate change. Thank you for taking action! Corinne Ball, Climate Parents

A greedy developer, Carlos Beruff, wants to destroy a critical shoreline area in Manatee County, Florida. Long Bar Pointe provides refuge for countless manatees, dolphins, seahorses, fish, and other species. Sarasota and Manatee county residents benefit greatly from its fisheries and natural beauty. Beruff wants to displace it with a massive condo / hotel / shopping complex. It will destroy fishing, tourism and recreation jobs, and kill irreplaceable wildlife. The Manatee County Commissioners should vote NO on Beruff's plan - even if he has tried to buy them off with huge campaign contributions. The Commissioners will be considering Beruff's proposal at a public hearing on Aug 6. We need to have a massive petition to deliver then. So sign this NOW and then send to your friends!

Fracking in California would be insane. We are the food basket of the United States. Do you really want to chance contaminating the water that irrigates the food that feeds the nation. Earthquake is another big scare.

Huge amounts of water mixed with unregulated toxic chemicals are injected into the ground to release oil and gas. Fracking contaminates ground water, soil and air and poses serious health risks. Fracking has triggered earth quakes and is currently done on top of the San Andreas fault line. Fracking is unsafe for California and it's residents. It needs to be banned to protect residents, land and water supplies.

State Legislators and the Governor have permitted oil companies to use toxic chemicals to poison our water table, and penetrate the San Andreas faultline. California is already at risk with earthquake activity, but fracking will guarantee a major earthquake.

Getting the Town of Hartwick to institute a ban on the practice of Hydraulic Fracturing for Natural Gas and to prevent the possibility of being a disposal site for "produced" water.

We're past the tipping point of reversing the affects of climate change. What we need to do now is become more innovative and not lose sight of ending what escalated it to begin with. Renewable energy initiatives around the world are creating a significant number of jobs while oil, coal and gas are building more automated processes to reduce manpower. If you could vote to improve the economy, create a significant number of jobs nationally and internationally, reduce the deficit and end climate change by supporting renewable energy initiatives...would you? Sign the petition if you see this as a viable effort for our leaders to follow through on!

I remember what BP did to the gulf coast.

Hydraulic fracturing for the purpose of natural gas production is a completely unacceptable technology for use in the state of Michigan. Fracking in the United States and throughout the world has resulted in horrendous disaster for citizens of the world.

Fracking has proven to be among the dirtiest mining technologies. Fracking is proven to release extremely dangerous amounts of methane into the air in addition to more hazardous and poisonous chemicals into the water table. The BLM's recent failure to consider any environmental impact analysis on fracking in CA shows the Obama administration prioritizes fossil fuel exploration over the environment and public health. Therefore it is up to CA state governance to put peoples' health and preserving what is left of the health our the environment--that we depend upon for clean air and WATER--as a first priority. We insist upon a moratorium on fracking in CA until a STATE run human health and environmental impact analysis is done.

Fracking results in extensive contamination of water, a precious resource. It is important instead to develop immediately, alternative sources of energy such as wind, solar and hydroelectric energy as well as to deploy a better energy grid.