Plastic bags litter the Trinity River, White Rock Lake and the city’s streets; they're blowing around Dallas' parks and neighborhoods; they're clogging our sewage and wastewater systems — and they're never going to biodegrade. Dallas uses millions of plastic grocery bags every year. They trash our parks, waters and city streets. And once they get into the city’s environment, plastic bags kill animals like birds, discourage potential investment, and cost the city hundreds of thousands of dollars to clean up. We can't let something as unnecessary and wasteful as disposable grocery bags plague Dallas' cityscape and waste our natural resources. Luckily, the solution is simple: Dallas can be an environmental leader by banning disposable plastic checkout bags so people can use reusable ones instead. Dallas Council Member Dwaine Caraway has proposed a ban on plastic bags and we need to show the Mayor and council that the public supports this!

A class of neuroactive insecticides known as neonicotinoids are destroying our planet's bee population. We ask for the United States government to ban the use of these dangerous pesticides, which are already banned in Europe. These neonicotinoid pesticides are decimating our planet's bee population - as much as 90% in some places. If left unchecked, they could destroy our world’s ability to grow enough food to feed its population. We call for the Obama administration, United States Congress, and the EPA to ban the use of neonicotinoid pesticides and protect our bees. These harmful pesticides are also poisoning other animals, and the toxic effects are bound to affect human beings. According to a study performed by the American Bird Conservancy, neonicotinoids are lethal to birds and to the aquatic systems on which they depend. A single corn kernel coated with a neonicotinoid can kill a songbird. These studies represent the canary in the coal mine. Who knows what the long term effects on our children are going to be? Would you help protect the health of our children and the environment for future generations?

Outside pro-fracking groups are increasingly showing interest in our community. That's why Fort Collins residents are coming together to make sure we have all the facts before we risk public health, safety, property values and our water for this heavy industrial activity. Let's get all the facts before we allow outside corporations to make the decision to frack for us.

Recently, environmental leaders in the Rhode Island General Assembly have pushed forward a bill that would rein in greenhouse gas emissions to levels consistent with what science says we need to reach to avoid the worst effects of global warming. But to get the bill over the finish line in the last weeks of the legislative session, we'll need Rhode Islanders all over the state to weigh in with their representatives. Send a message to your state rep and senator: Support the Climate Solutions Act.

The fastest-growing cause of deforestation across the tropics is the massive growth of palm oil plantations. One company -- Wilmar International -- produces nearly half of the world’s palm oil. And Wilmar may be using your money to fuel its path of destruction. In the United States, palm oil is in about half of our packaged foods and cosmetics. Why? Because it’s cheap. What makes it cheap? Global companies are taking over huge swaths of land, wreaking havoc on the environment, and ignoring human rights, all in the name of keeping costs down. Among the biggest U.S. financiers of Wilmar are the nation’s largest banks, pension funds and asset managers. To save the world’s forests, we need to get our money out of palm oil.

I moved to New Hampshire from densely populated urban centers around Boston and New York, especially to get away from crowded, dirty cities and urban sprawl. Although am a devout environmentalist, my first view of a 400-foot wind turbine in the woods did not make me happy – it made me sick. We have very little wilderness left – we don’t need industrial wind parks in the forest.

I’ve lived in Baltimore for twenty years, and I’ve never experienced storms of the intensity we’ve had in the last few years. From last June's intense derecho to the damage wrought by Hurricane Irene and Superstorm Sandy, each event is another reminder of the way that fossil fuel pollution is changing our climate and making our weather system more dangerous. Television viewers like me rely on our broadcast meteorologists to inform us about the ways that climate is influencing our weather system. But unfortunately, I can’t count on the information I get from Channel 11 (WBAL). WBAL meteorologist Tony Pann denies that the climate is even changing, and has written a series of blog posts that contain false accusations, misstatements, and outright misinformation. Pann has written that global warming “stopped” in 1998, and that “dramatic cooling” has taken place ever since. Pann is a conspiracy theorist who has repeatedly alleged that climate scientists have “manipulated data,” and even once theorized that climate might be changing because Earth is raising its vibration from a 3rd dimensional reality to the 5th. Seriously. After learning about Tony Pann’s history of misinformation, I decided I needed to act. Along with University of Maryland climate scientist Eugenia Kalnay, I sat down to discuss WBAL’s climate coverage with the station’s news director, Michelle Butt. Ms. Butt said she takes climate change seriously, but she refused to take action to correct the misinformation being spread by one of her meteorologists. As a journalistic institution, WBAL has a responsibility to immediately stop the virulent climate change denial spouted by one its reporters. Join me in urging WBAL news director Michelle Butt to correct claims made by Tony Pann, and to take action to ensure that her staff report scientific facts about climate change, not misinformation.

NextEra Energy Resources, originally Florida Power & Light, has amassed a fortune in subsidies alone, almost $ 5 Billion in just 2010, not to mention the tax credits from provisions of the PTC ( Production Tax Credit ). Simply put they are purely a criminal enterprise promoted by a blend of an unwitting government and the gross naivete of the general populace. They just initiated a law suit against a woman, Esther Wrightman, in Ontario Canada, for "defaming" them for destroying an Eagle pair's nest, so they could install some more usless contraptions and entitle themselves to more tax credits and subsidies in return for more carnage of the environment. This is the epitome of their absolute moral squalor and a resonant statement of their unfathomable cupidity. Look to your power company. or go to http://www.eia.gov/energy_in_brief/, for information about their actual PRODUCTION of power, NOT CAPACITY, that's as inane as valuing your car based on the maximum speed indicated on your speedometer.

Southwest Florida is known around the world as "paradise." We have miles of beaches, a thriving local economy, and year-round international tourism. It is home to the Florida Everglades, Big Cypress National Preserve, Picayune Strand State Forest, and the Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge. There are many protected and endangered animal species who live in this area. The immediately proposed drill site is in Golden Gate Estates in Naples, Florida, and is very close in proximity of these protected preserves. Families live right next to the proposed drill site and call it home. Golden Gate Estates residents all produce their own drinking water from wells. Drilling for oil at this site would put our families and our sensitive ecosystem in great danger. Dan A. Hughes Company of Beeville, Texas, applied for a permit for "oil and gas exploration" on 115,560 acres they have leased from the Barron Collier Companies. Hughes representatives have been unable to assure us of our safety or that oil drilling will not compromise the safety and integrity of our environment. They have evaded the majority of our community's questions with the response, "I don't know, it's not us." When asked what they planned to do with the oil - if it would remain in the United States or be exported - they didn't know. When asked if it would create local jobs, they didn't know. When asked about if they would be fracking, they responded with, "we don't plan on it, but we can't speak for other companies." They wouldn't put anything in writing. When asked about the dangers to our families of polluted drinking water, hydrogen sulfide, fires, spills, industrial traffic, and noise, they responded with, "getting in your car every day puts you in danger." They have said "you never know how the Earth is going to respond" with nary a thought as to how people and other species can be endangered by the Earth's response. The citizens who live in Southwest Florida do not want oil drilling in our neighborhoods and our preserves. We want our voice to be heard. Please safeguard our families, our way of life, our protected and endangered wildlife, and our parks and national preserves. Please listen to us. Please also register at our website: http://preserveourparadise.org Thank you.

Glyphosate has recently been implicated in the drastic rise of autism in children. There is peer reviewed science and guilty verdicts in other countries proving the link between glyphosate and major health problems. Glyphosate is also responsible for community collapse disorder that were seeing with honey bees wich pollinate one third of our food.

Fish and birds eat plastics as we all know. Their favorite colors of plastic to eat are red and orange. They also love to eat disposable lighters. To protect these animals companies like Bic need to stop using red and orange in their disposable lighter production.

Marine mammals—such as bearded and ringed seals, beluga whales, and the endangered bowhead whale—depend on sound to communicate, find food, and avoid prey. Oil exploration activities fill the ocean with loud noise that can interfere with these basic functions. Seismic surveying, for example, uses air-guns to detect oil beneath the sea-floor. The blasts—loud enough to cause deafness—occur day and night for months, and cover vast areas of the ocean. Unfortunately, the federal government is proposing moving forward with loud and risky oil exploration methods even though it has not completed an assessment of the cumulative impacts on Arctic marine mammals. Tell the National Marine Fisheries Service not to permit any Arctic Ocean oil exploration until it completes a full analysis of the effects and understands how to mitigate the damage to marine mammals. THIS COMMENT PERIOD DEADLINE TO PROTECT MARINE MAMMALS FROM OIL EXPLORATION IS JUNE 27. Please sign this petition today!