Allies from across the environmental movement along with labor organizations, consumer organizations, businesses and communities of faith are working together to stop a major rollback to Connecticut’s clean energy commitments being pushed by Northeast Utilities lobbyists and Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection Dan Esty in Senate Bill 1138. If they have their way, they would flood our state’s Renewable Portfolio Standard (how our state buys clean energy) with old, environmentally-damaging Canadian Hydro and give a massive corporate handout of more than $1 billion to Northeast Utilities to build the Northern Pass transmission lines. That hurts the renewable industry here in Connecticut and New England and wastes ratepayer dollars on transmission lines that cut through some of New England’s most pristine landscapes. What we need is a clean energy future built here at home with large-scale wind contracts. We need those jobs that would go to a large Canadian hydro corporation to go to small businesses here in our state. We need to be smart about our clean energy future and not waste ratepayer dollars just to pad the pockets of the utility companies.

I got generic lipator made in India, it had ground glass in it. I don't want my medicine made in third world countries.

On August 15, 2013, the Oak Hills Park Authority voted unanimously to work with the developer proposing a driving range on existing golf course land, and *NOT* to pursue the plan to destroy the woodlands. While this signals victory for our current petition, we don't want to have to fight this fight again. We invite you to sign our new petition to have the woodlands set aside as permanent open space: http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/protect-oak-hills-woodlands History: The Oak Hills Park Authority (OHPA), a governing body appointed by Norwalk’s Mayor, intended to destroy the last remaining natural wooded area in Oak Hills by hiring a private contractor to construct and operate a golf driving range. If this natural area is destroyed, we will never get it back. The League of Women Voters of Norwalk voted on July 15 to oppose the destruction of the woodlands and to support this land being designated as permanent open space. This position is in accord with the LWVUSA position on land use and open space. As of June, OHPA had received two driving range proposals: one would locate the driving range on existing golf course acreage, while the other would destroy the woodlands. At a public meeting on June 20, OHPA stated that they are studying both proposals. Before issuing the Request for Proposal in May, OHPA claimed that a driving range is needed to make money because the golf course is not making enough money. However, OHPA has not disclosed financial details to show why the golf course is not making enough money, nor how much money a driving range would cost to construct and operate versus how much money it would bring in. The natural wooded area is unsuitable because it is steep, rocky, heavily wooded, bordered by a wetland, and close to neighboring homes. The erection of protective netting 110 feet or more in height would make the driving range unsightly. Furthermore, a driving range would impair the quality of life in the area with lights, noise and traffic, and would make the park inaccessible for those who don’t play golf. For all of these reasons we opposed the plan to construct a driving range if it would mean destroying the woodlands.

An above ground 69 KV power line (approximately 2 miles long) is being proposed run alongside the Black Oak Ridge Conservation Easement (BORCE), the East Fork Natural Area (EFNA) and the North Boundary Greenway. The above ground power line right of way (50 feet wide) will require over a mile of forested land on the East Fork Natural Area and along the North Boundary Greenway and BORCE to be cleared. Another mile of power line will run along the North Boundary Greenway and BORCE.

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25% of the world's population now lives in areas with bans or fees on plastic bags. We do not live in such a place at this moment. Sadly, Plastic bags aren't biodegrade, they photodegrade - breaking down into smaller and smaller toxic bits contaminating soil and waterways and entering the food web when animals accidentally ingest them. A plastic bag can take between 400 to 1,000 years to break down in the environment. Plastic bags cause over 100,000 sea turtle and other marine animal deaths every year when animals mistake them for food. Plastic bags are among the 12 items of debris most often found in coastal cleanups, according to the nonprofit Center for Marine Conservation. Nearly 90% of the debris in our oceans is plastic.

Bees are essential for one out of three bites of food we eat. But last winter, beekeepers reported losses of 50-70 percent of their hives -- the worst year yet since the global bee die-off began! A growing body of scientific evidence is pointing to neonicotinoids (neonics) as the key factor in this crisis and the European Union has just imposed a two year ban on these toxic pesticides. These neonics are everywhere -- in commercial agriculture, on the shelf of your local garden stores, and in the plants and seeds we buy from nurseries. Bee part of the solution! Tell Home Depot, Lowe’s and others to stop selling neonics.

The most fundamental goal of society is to produce safe, affordable, sustainable food. The challenges to this are great and growing with the human population, climate change, and loss of farmland. An amalgam of corporate and ideological interests oppose biotechnology despite its spotless safety record, remarkable benefits to the environment, and its contributions to keeping food affordable. Working to the benefit of these special interests, legislators are trying to rewrite FDA regulations so that warning labels must be placed on food made from crops improved using biotechnology, even if the food contents are indistinguishable from food made without biotechnology.

Sign our petition asking the California Legislature to vote for the plastic bag ban bill (SB 405) authored by Senator Alex Padilla. Each year Californians use more than 14 billion single-use plastic bags. They are blight on our communities, fill our landfills, clog inland waterways, litter our beaches and mountains, and kill thousands of fish, marine mammals and seabirds. Join our coalition of environmental and business groups and sign the petition today! Supporters include: Sierra Club, NRDC, Surfrider, Clean Water Action, Heal the Bay, Planning & Conservation League and Californians Against Waste.

The Keystone pipeline and the oil extraction process is an extremely dirty and environmentally damaging way of removing oil. Fracking processes in general use excessive amounts of water that is permanently ruined by adding toxic chemicals necessary to separate the oil from other materials in the ground. Furthermore ground water sources are also polluted during this invasive process of oil extraction which contributes substantially to the pollution of our atmosphere.

Fracking has 650 to 900 toxic chemicals that poison our air and water. Use solar and hydro electric energy.

The citizens of Georgia have in their rate base, dollars invested in nuclear generation but not producing capital investments. Matching dollars in sustainable, renewable solar generation will bring an immediate return for the rape-paying citizens of Georgia.