As a Designer in an Ohio PR Firm, I was witness to the half-hearted efforts of one International Corporation to provide palliative health care to residents of a small town suffering gruesome ailments due to said Corporation's pollution of the town's water supply.The legal issues and suffering of said townsfolk was hidden under a pile of non- disclosure agreements,which is all I can legally disclose. Frak Illinois and poison your children.

San Onofre Whistleblower Cites "Potentially Catastrophic" Design Flaw with nuclear power plant. Inside source tells local news channel that cracked generator pipes at nuclear power plant could cause a full or partial meltdown. A former safety engineer with the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station is blowing the whistle on a "potentially catastrophic problem" at the currently offline Southern California Edison plan. According to a report by San Diego's Channel 10 News, the unnamed source—who has 25 years working in the field of nuclear safety—said that a faulty redesign of the plant's steam generators has put the system at risk of a "full or partial meltdown." "There is something grossly wrong," he told the news station. Since Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) undertook a redesign of the generators in 2010 and 2011, the tubes that carry scalding water and steam from the generator have been crashing into one another creating cracks and "unprecedented tube failure." Of 19,400 tubes, a Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) report found more than 17 percent were damaged. Dr. Joe Hopenfeld, a former employee of the NRC, explained to Channel 10 that "the worst case scenario is a main steam line break," which could be caused by tubes cracking, the tube walls thinning or metal fatigue. Both the unnamed safety engineer and Hopenfeld agree that if such a thing occurs, "there is potential for the reactor core to overheat—which could mean a full or partial meltdown." "Many tubes, and I don't know how many, have exhausted their fatigue life—they have no fatigue life left," Hopenfeld added. "As far as I'm concerned, it's a very serious risk." Earlier this month, Southern California Edison announced intentions to fire up the plant, after nearly a year spent offline, by June 1. Though the NRC has not committed to meet their target date, they are expected to make a decision about the possible restart within the coming weeks. Both the anonymous source and Hopenfeld said that "no one can predict what will happen if the plant restarts." "If an accident like this happens, (an) emergency plan is not geared to handle such a public safety devastation," added the inside source. "Those things have never been practiced or demonstrated in a drill scenario."

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I own a small business in the university area of El Paso, Texas. I also live in the neighborhood. We moved our business to this area because of the planned beautification project. This was about nine years ago. Nothing has happened and there is no longer talk of seeing this through. It seems that the city has shifted gears and moved their focus to downtown. This is great, we need that. Having a fun, beautiful, university area is critical for El Paso as it is the gateway between Utep, our historic districts and downtown. I would like to know what has happened to these plans and how can we get them going again?

Passing a law regulating the use of plastic bags in Michigan will be a major step in aesthetically improving our communities while reducing the expense of plastic bag disposal. Furthermore, the regulation of plastic bag use would promote Michigan as truly being “Pure”. We use plastic bags for minutes, yet they persist in our environment for hundreds of years. The average person uses 360 single-use plastic bags every year. Despite efforts to expand recycling programs, less than 5% of single-use plastic bags are currently being recycled nationwide. The rest of these bags inevitably end up in our landfill or as litter, clogging storm drain systems, and making their way to the Great Lakes. Plastic bags entangle or are ingested by lake wildlife and shore birds, as well as break down into small bits that persist in the ecosystem and may move through the food chain if ingested by fish.

This concerns fracking in the State of California. I am a California resident, born and raised!

I am 24 years old. I have had a total of four miscarriages. I was only able to carry my son to 34 weeks because we had started with twins. We have done some tests and found out that I have low progesterone. There is not history of this in my family. My family is quite fertile. I want to leave a Roundup-free and healthy food supply for my son and future children and give them the hope of being able to have their own healthy families. That means we need to act now. We shouldn't have to wait until 2015 for answer, and then more years for a result. We need to do something now. Please sign my petition, and spare our children some of the pain and suffering we are allowing them.

Please do not allow fracking in Illinois. The southern part of the state is beautiful with designated wetlands and biodiversity. It is also the homeland of many diverse animjal species. I just visited this part of the state. Instead, we should be trying to promote tourism as opposed to ruining the precious land. Thank-you, Jeanette Alexander

Construction will block our views of the San Diego Bay

Fracking is an extreme process with catastrophic results. It involves injecting massive amounts of water and toxic chemicals into the ground to reach inaccessible oil and gas. This process threatens our water, our air, our farms, and health—and our planet. This issue affects everyone. If we ban fracking, it will also make it easier for other states to stand up and do so as well.

Fracking—injecting massive amounts of water and toxic chemicals into the ground to reach previously inaccessible oil and gas—is an extreme process, with catastrophic results. Maybe you've seen the footage of people in Pennsylvania lighting their tap water on fire after it's been contaminated with chemicals used in fracking. Fracking threatens our water, our air, our farms, and our health—and contributes to global warming.( http://www.moveon.org/r?r=289224&id=66523-21412315-CR23URx&t=4). An oil industry insider recently told Politico that if California—known as a progressive and Democratic state—moves forward with fracking, "it will be a lot harder to paint the process as an extreme process that risks the health and safety of individuals."(http://www.politico.com/story/2013/04/california-energy-fracking-battleground-90397.html). The State Assembly needs to take action NOW! They should vote YES on State Assembly Bill,A.B.,1301

Fracking in Illinois