HB 953 or Senate Bill 2738 - MIssissippi Food Freedom Act

Open letter To President Obama: Dear President Obama, It was with great relief and gratitude that we welcomed, at long last, a clarion call in your inaugural address to "respond to the threat of climate change" -- the greatest threat, challenge, and opportunity of our time. We thank you for these words, because your words are powerful, and necessary for change. But words are not enough. We need action. Mr. President, you are the first leader in our history who will be judged by what you do -- or do not do -- to protect your people from the already-begun ravages and disruptions brought about by fossil fuels. So far, Mr. President, you are failing in the face of our earth heating up, and the damage accelerating. Just a few months ago, we witnessed New York and New Jersey swallowed up by our still-rising oceans. Our worsening nationwide drought, after the hottest year on record, is clear evidence that our planet is not healing, but is hurtling toward greater climate disruption. The simple truth is that you will continue failing in the fight against climate change, as long as you continue an energy policy which treats equally the fuels that are hurting us and those that will save us. To meet your call on climate change, your "all of the above" energy policy must end. Your support for fracking and drilling, coal mines and pipelines, continues to obliterate the progress you could be making with your administration's gas mileage rule, or your investments in renewable energy. Even if you finally issue a carbon pollution rule that addresses existing sources of pollution, it will mean nothing if you are simultaneously lighting the fuses on carbon bombs by approving the Keystone XL pipeline, Arctic drilling, or fossil fuel export projects. You must use the power of your office and our federal lands to stop promoting fossil fuel development, and reject these projects outright. While we recognize that a majority in the House of Representatives are clearly not on the side of science or sanity, you can and must find a way - within Congress or the power of your office - to end fossil fuel subsidies and giveaways, and put a price on all greenhouse gas pollution, so that fossil fuel executives can no longer get rich from the destabilization of our climate, and so fossil-free energy can thrive. If Congress remains in the way, you must fight to change Congress. You must invest significantly in sustainable sources of energy as part of a plan to rapidly transition our nation from fossil fuels. And these efforts should be coupled with resources to help our cities, states and industries prepare for the damage that climate change is already bringing. (The $50 billion Sandy relief package and the drought's impacts on food prices are just two painful reminders that the cost of inaction is enormous, and untenable.) Confronting climate change also happens to be our best opportunity to create the broad-based economic revitalization that your policies have largely failed to achieve. This is not simply an empty trope of idealistic environmentalists, it is the truth. Mr. President, we are urging you to do as our other Illinois president did when confronted with the great moral issue of his time: to take bold, decisive action to end one great societal ill, changing the economy in the process, and usher in a new era of American freedom, security and prosperity. This is the moment. We will support you. But you must lead and take action, starting first and foremost with your rejection of the presidential permit required by the Keystone XL pipeline, which is your decision and yours alone. Sincerely, Becky Bond, Political Director, CREDO Michael Kieschnick, President and CEO, CREDO Elijah Zarlin, Senior Campaign Manager, CREDO [YOUR NAME HERE]

We need a carbon tax to cover the costs of fossil fuel pollution (carbon dioxide) and level energy market.

Scheduled by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation is construction of a new bridge,when the existing bridge could be rebuilt,or the proposed new bridge could be shifted a few feet to the downstream side,thereby avoiding the destruction of this huge,beautiful tree. Please help my cause by proudly adding your name.

70% of American foods are contaminated with GMOs... Genetically Modified Organisms... all Americans are affected... but most do not even know it... Elizabeth Kucinich is already involved in films etc to expose GMOs...

Increasing solar panel usage is key to fighting climate change. Global Warming Bonds fund citizen solar panel installations via investors who want to achieve safe thirty year high yield investment returns by loaning the funds via the bonds. https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B88DfIEOpIbvSW9VR3lFOThnZFk/edit

Stop the fracking phenomenan that has taken over the Republican party thinking that this is a total panacea for energy independence!

A blockbuster study released last week by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), has for the first time labeled the pesticide clothianidin as an "unacceptable" danger to bees.(1) Scientists have long thought that clothianidin is at least partially to blame for the alarming rate that bees have been dying off in the U.S. - nearly 30% of our bee population, per year, has been lost to so-called colony collapse since 2006.(2) But the EPA has repeatedly ignored scientists' warnings and Americans' urgings to ban its use, citing lack of evidence. Now, the EFSA study could be a major breakthrough to convince the EPA to take emergency action, and suspend the use of clothianidin to stop the precipitous decline in global honeybee populations. Sign this petition urging the EPA to take action now. Add your name to speak out for the bees. References 1."Pesticides and Honey Bees: State of the Science," Pesticide Action Network North America (PDF) http://www.panna.org/sites/default/files/Bees&Pesticides_SOS_FINAL_May2012.pdf 2."Insecticide 'unacceptable' danger to bees, report finds," Guardian, 1/16/13 http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jan/16/insecticide-unacceptable-danger-bees

Christmas tree growers in Western NC are unlawfullyl burning their trees by way of a regulatory loop hole.and the "good ole boy network" of local officials that allow this to happen. Also the Christmas Tree Growers Assoc has lobbied to weaken regulations. These trees are covered with chemicals that are released into our air making the smoke even more noxious. If laws were passed to stop people from smoking a cigarette outside of a restaurant why should citizens have to endure air pollution on this grand scale??!! We are talking about many thousands of trees. Why not chip and bury these trees where they stand. The growers have already poisoned the soil there. Oh wait, it must be because it might cost them more money. I hate people that only care about their own bottom line and not the best welfare of others. And yes I have been affected personally by this issue as well as many many others here in the mountains!

Single-use plastic bags are manufactured using non-renewable resources but are consumed at a rapid rate. They are responsible for: 1) Litter in the community and pollution in the watershed 2) Extraneous spending for removal by the city of Cincinnati 3) An increased carbon footprint for the city of Cincinnati

I attend Walled Lake Northern High School, in Commerce MI, in Oakland County. Currently my green group and I are doing our part by trying to reduce the amount of reusable materials that are not properly disposed of. The amount of paper towel used is wasteful and harmful. According to Americandryer.com, by replacing all paper towel dispensers with automatic hand dryers in a public school, there will be an increased 95% cost savings vs. paper towels and 80 – 90% less energy used depending on the hand dryer. The hand dryer operating costs are$1,232 to an outrageous $115,500 in total paper towel costs.

Let's hold Texas legislators feet to the fire on fracking.