Like most Americans, I'm tired of big money buying congressional votes.

Illinois House and Senate will soon be voting on a compromise bill that would allow fracking in Illinois. I am concerned that we have seen enough evidence of severe harm created by this unregulated industry to cause us all alarm for the future health of people and the environment.

Small animals (skunks, squirrels) looking for food find their heads stuck -- eyes, nose and mouth totally covered by Yoplait containers, which have been left as litter by unthinking people. Due to the container's inverted shape the container remains on the animal. They are rarely rescued and suffocate. All because Yoplait has a poorly designed container.

Not content with the power it holds over lawmakers in Washington, the American Petroleum Institute is now waging a battle against small towns. The powerful oil and gas lobbying group has weighed in on an important court case that will decide whether a town in rural, upstate New York has the right to ban oil and gas drilling activities – including the controversial fracking method – within its town borders. API, predictably, thinks that no town should have that right. Of the ten largest U.S. oil and gas companies, nine are API members. All nine of these companies have headquarters in Texas, Oklahoma, or California – states where courts or legislatures have determined that towns or cities have the right to ban oil or gas drilling within their borders. API members lost these battles on their home turf. Now they are trying to deny those rights in states where they want to open up large-scale oil and gas development. Towns that want to ban drilling and fracking shouldn’t have to worry about facing off in court against API, the most powerful lobbying group in the country. Will you tell the American Petroleum Institute to back off of communities that don’t want fracking and stop joining legal challenges against them? Sign the petition to support small towns standing up to the oil and gas industry.

There is presently a 40 acre parcel of land that is part of the Wounded Knee Massacre for sale. I have written to President Obama at whitehouse.gov about this matter. My feeling is that the site should be made an American Historical Site by the U.S. government.

The Environmental Science class at Mead Hall Episcopal School has been researching the benefits and use of Biodiesel fuel in the Aiken County School District. If all of the buses in our school district used Biodiesel fuel we would not only cut gas costs but we would also be using a cleaner way of transportation. This petition will help us to show the South Carolina the number of people who support and would like to reinstate the use of Biodiesel fuel.

Methane gas leaking during the fracking process accelerates global climate change increasing the probability of natural disasters. The Environmental Protection Agency has detected ten efficient ways of significantly reducing 80% of that pollution.

Ensure the passage of LD 1059, "An Act To Protect Maine's Environment and Natural Resources Jeopardized by Mining." In the spring of 2012, LD 1853 was passed in Maine, legalizing mountaintop removal via open pit mining. LD 1059, which was considered by the Environment and Natural Resources Committee on April 29 and will be voted on in the next few weeks, is sponsored by Representative Ben Chipman of Portland. It will result in a full repeal of LD 1853. The protection of our natural resources and health requires passage of LD 1059. For further information, see http://knowpower.wordpress.com/2013/04/28/open-pit-mining/

At an Ohio PR Firm, I witnessed the efforts of a Corporation to provide palliative health care to a small town suffering gruesome ailments due to the Corporation's pollution of the town's water supply.The suffering of townsfolk was hidden under layers of non-disclosure agreements. Frak America and poison your children.

At an Ohio PR Firm, I witnessed the efforts of a Corporation to provide palliative health care to a small town suffering gruesome ailments due to the Corporation's pollution of the town's water supply.The suffering of townsfolk was hidden under layers of non-disclosure agreements. Frak America and poison your children.

We strongly urge Assemblyman Brian Dahle to support a ban on fracking in California. The BLM has already auctioned off 1,750 sq.miles for fracking and plans to auction off even more this May. Fracking has contaminated drinking water with extremely toxic chemicals all over the U.S., causing illness in humans and livestock, and rendering public and private land uninhabitable. Protect California's groundwater!

Drilling for Oil is an awful thing. You have to reach down into several layers of the Earth, and where spills are horrible for Marine lifeforms, think of how bad that is for the Earth!