The state Senate has introduced a bill (SB 76), that instructs that Governor to negotiate with the federal government to open up our coast to oil and gas drilling. Allowing drilling would threaten our fragile coastal ecosystem, and put our tourist based coastal economy at risk. Imagine if a BP-like spill happened along the Outer Banks! This bill also allows the state to start issuing fracking permits in August 2015, without another vote to lift the moratorium. Please join together to help tell our leadership to stop their rush to drill.

S.B.76 strongly encourages the Governor to pursue offshore drilling compacts with Virginia and South Carolina, authorizes the Mining and Energy Commission and DENR to begin issuing permits for fracking on March 1, 2015 BEFORE regulations have been approved, eliminates the registration requirement for landmen; removes the State's Geologist from the MEC; and assorted other undesirables. Please sign this petition and send it to your contacts. North Carolina deserves better!

The Kentucky legislature is going to vote on weakening water quality standards for toxic selenium. The pollutant, while essential to life in tiny quantities, can cause grotesque birth defects in fish and aquatic life. The new standard for short-term exposure would be more than 10 times higher than the previous limit.

Are you tired of higher prices at the gas pump? If you are, it is time to stand up and demand a change in fuel at the pump. If we insist on one type of gasoline, production will rise and the price will fall.

"Researchers calculate that 55% of all littering is done intentionally by people who drop or discard products."...During a one-time sweep of Interstate 35W in Minneapolis, Adopt-a-Highway volunteers picked up 192 tons of trash in one day. The quantity filled 16 Mn/DOT tandem trucks and represented approximately 6,000 filled trash bags." http://www.dot.state.mn.us/adopt/litterfacts.html

Over 100 days after Superstorm Sandy hit Governor Christie said he doesn’t have time “to ponder the esoteric question of the cause of the storm.” Sadly, there’s nothing to ponder. As New Jersey’s own state climatologist put it, there’s nothing esoteric about it. Hurricanes are nothing new, of course. But global warming supercharges storms, as warming ocean waters fuel more powerful storms and rising sea levels result in more damage to our Shore. We could use the governor’s leadership to help us reduce the pollution that’s behind global warming and extreme weather. Instead, Gov. Christie has pulled us out of the landmark Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) to cap pollution from power plants; raided almost $700 million from New Jersey’s clean energy programs; and killed the largest mass transit project in America. Add your voice. Sign the petition and ask him to lead on global warming.

Colorado has seen an unprecedented boom in gas drilling, much of this using potentially risky production techniques such as fracking. Living communities all across the state have been significantly impacted and many heavily damaged by these activities. The San Luis Valley is well known for its agriculture, ranching, and tourism activities such as hunting, fishing, and outdoor sports. Its vital watersheds are critical for life in the San Luis Valley and south through New Mexico and Texas. The high water demands that accompany drilling and production are counter to the need to conserve our limited water resources especially in this protracted drought. We demand that the Commissioners of the six counties of the San Luis Valley recognize the unique characteristics of this valley and place a permanent ban on oil and gas drilling in and around the San Luis Valley.

I use a very small amount of energy per month of electricity and gas, however the minimum “customer charge" is often at or more than half of the bill. This regressive charge penalizes those who save energy. This charge should be modified to be based on the amount of energy used, proportionately placing the burden on those who use more energy.

The wolves of Minnesota are being threatened by an ill-conceived and possibly illegal hunting season.

Capt. John Cota has been blamed for causing the worst oil spill in San Francisco Bay in two decades when he crashed the cargo ship Cosco Busan into a tower of the Bay Bridge in 2007. He has sued the U.S. Coast Guard in an effort to regain his mariner's license so he can sail again. He should not be allowed back on the water because of the damage he has done to this ecosystem.

The Governor is still considering whether or not to allow big gas to destroy our beautiful state for money by FRACKING for natural gas. I want to make sure he gets the message that New Yorkers don't want that to happen. FRACKING has already destroyed water sheds and ground water supplies and people's lives where ever it has been allowed. There is NO SAFE WAY TO FRACK. No regulations will protect the people or the environment from the horrors that FRACKING creates. Let's get this message to him in time. Please sign my petition. You don't have to be a NY citizen either. Tourists don't want to come to a place that looks like a war zone after the war. Please everyone join me by signing and sharing this.

Re-writing Wisconsin's state mining regulations threatens the environment of Northern Wisconsin. Changes to state regulations may pave the way for the assault on the delicate ecological balance of the Lake Superior region. Economic development should proceed in favor of and not against the environment that sustains it!