Runaway development and urban sprawl is creating a serious environmental problem here in California. The attacks by developers on our remaining open space and rural areas is constant. California, by all studies, is already, population wise, in environmental overshoot. This exacerbates all of our other ecological problems. California is now a scene of water wars. Every new development, whether an expensive new housing development or another winery, is making things worse. California has already had 91% of its wetlands drained. It is predicted that the Colorado River could be functionally dry in about a decade. Much of California’s groundwater is in an overdraft state. The drought has caused the snow pack in California to be only 52% of normal as of April 1, 2013. The expansion of fracking, which uses a tremendous amount of water, is the newest threat to our water supply. The water that remains for each individual in the state is becoming increasingly polluted. According to the EPA, the number of rivers in California that are polluted increased by 170% from 2006 to 2010. Of its 3 million acres of lakes, wetlands and estuaries, 1.6 million acres are not meeting water quality standards. Our air is also being affected. The fact that our state is the 12th largest emitter of carbon in the world is behind our state being in the 90th percentile in air pollution in the country. California has 5 of the top 10 most air polluted urban areas in the country. Not only air and water, but much of our state’s resources are being depleted at an unsustainable level. If left unchecked, California will commit slow but steady suicide. Steps need to be taken, and the first should be to create a check on urban sprawl. If there is a genuinely good reason for us to lose even more of our rural land to development and sprawl, it should now be put up to a vote of the people in the area most affected. It should no longer just be left to the politicians and their developer allies. That is the inspiration behind this petition signed by California voters.

In order to facilitate and advance affordable, environmentally benign, energy security at less than 20¢/kWh for all homes and businesses in Hawaii via greater deployment of long-service-life solar PVBBs without PV-caused grid overload and instabilities, while retaining a reliable profitable grid system business, we submit the above petitions.

State legislation is attempting to open Hawai`i's doors to unplanned development by amending historic preservation laws. Current legislation requires developers to perform an Archaeological Inventory Assessment (AIS), a process of coming to know what is on the landscape, prior to altering it. Bypassing this initial step is poor planning and costly. Please kill Senate Bill 1171

Community solar would allow people like me, who don’t own property and who can’t afford to install solar panels by myself, to invest in solar with my neighbors. But now, my neighbors and I don’t have that opportunity because PNM doesn’t want to let us provide our own energy.

Oil and gas development has increased dramatically in the Front Range in recent years. In Central & Western Adams County, the greatest health risk is air quality from the large number of wells in Weld County to our north. There are also dangers to water quality from spills and leaks. The COGCC (Colorado Oil & Gas Conservation Commission) has a dual role to regulate AND PROMOTE the industry. There are seven bills in the Colorado State House & Senate to fix these problems. Please sign the petition & tell our Representatives that you support this legislation.

People are eating infected fish and becoming infected themselves with the poullution that infected the fish. this has to stop

By sneaking Section 735 into a federal appropriations bills, Monsanto has successfully planted a dangerous provision in U.S. law that strips judges of their constitutional mandate to protect American's health and the environment while opening up the floodgates for the planting of new, untested genetically engineered crops. Even if their new GMO crops are ultimately proven to be harmful to human health or the environment, Section 735 allows them to be planted the minute the USDA approves them!

Under the guise of 'energy independence' US utilities & other Corporations (& politicians) are agressively pushing for the importation of energy sources from Canada that is tainted by 'cultural genocide' against native people & large scale ecological destruction, This includes tar sands sludge as well as mega-hydro which is flooding many thousands of square miles of wilderness. This importation makes Americans accomplices to Enviromental Racism! & all so we can continue to waste energy!

The State Department has released its draft report on the environmental impacts of the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline. This report -- written in part by firms with close ties to Big Oil -- glosses over the climate impact of the Canadian tar sands. The official public comment period ends April 22nd. So time is running out to speak up and show President Obama and Secretary of State Kerry that there is a national movement demanding they keep their climate promises. With stakes this high, there is no excuse for the White House to approve the pipeline. It's up to you and me to make sure the president and Secretary Kerry get the message: It's impossible to fight climate change while simultaneously investing in one of the dirtiest, most carbon-intensive fossil fuels on the planet. And then there’s the increased risk of spills posed by tar sands oil pipelines. Last week a horrific spill in Mayflower, AR sent tar sands oil gushing down neighborhood streets. This is just a small taste of what we can expect if Keystone is approved. Submit an official comment -- this is your chance to tell the State Department and the president to get it right.

As an RN, I am very concerned about our food supply and the repercussions of GMOs. Time will tell how many lives will be adversely affected, but by then, it will be too late for many!

It's not actually OK to have ridiculously loud mufflers on a motorcycle or blast music from speakers mounted on one. These are against laws that just don't get enforced, like jay-walking or littering laws. The difference is that loud motorcycles make all of our lives a little worse.. There's even studies that show this noise can raise blood pressure. Check out this KRON4 Stanley Robers' report from 2009: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl5-xl-Q2NQ More of that, please. Let's tell the city to enforce these laws and take this issue even a little seriously.

We call on our representatives to stop the chem. trail/geo engineering greed and destruction and hold the perpetrators of this unjust enrichment and crime against humanity and ecology, accountable.