Writing-Climate Change 2/5/2013 Climate change is not just another issue. It is the issue beyond all issues. It is the turning point of the planet towards its demise - or the demise of the people and other living things upon it. To believe that it is another issue like economic justice, gay rights, legalizing marijuana, or ending the war, is to be caught in the mass hypnosis of our times. This is the most pivotal issue of existence, the impact of which will be felt for all time. We are the pivotal generation. The crime of climate change is that it is imposed on all people's of the earth. It results in huge suffering, wars, mass starvation and death. First islands will go and cities on low lying coasts. People in third world nations will be without food and water. Extreme and deadly climate events will destroy the economy, raising prices and leading to more misery. They will take the lives of many and destroy their property and livelihood. The seasons for most will become more difficult to endure. The future of our children and our grandchildren is being destroyed. We are deciding to allow the sickening and dying for the planet for all time and all beings. We cannot stand by as this happens. We must cry out in huge numbers and say: Stop! Climate change cannot be allowed and must be reversed. This is non-negotiable. We have broken our hypnosis. To risk the planet for the sake of the greed of private enterprise is not just a political position you can be for or against. It is the biggest crime ever perpetuated. It is the murder of the planet. It is a crime before which all other crimes pale. Stop! This is not the work of the moral. God does not condone this. Nor does Jesus Christ, Buddha, Mohammad. Allah, or any God man or woman. This is the work of the devil or the demented. It is wrong and we will not allow it." Please sign this petition and pass it on!. We are the pivotal generation. Which way it turns, and how fast, is in our hands.

n Minnesota we have seen both extreme rainfall and drought, and a temperature rise of around 3-4F degrees since 1960, which threatens our ability to produce food for the nation and the world. Worldwide a temperature increase of 1.4F degrees has caused floods, droughts, fire, extreme temperatures resulting in human suffering and loss of life.

President Jimmy Carter signed empowered our utilities with the Residential Conservation Service. That service saved homeowners many dollars. A similar service could be created for our small business owners and ease the lose of wasted energy.

A large numer of communities around Kansas intentionally put poison in their water! This poison is an industrial waste that contains many toxins, including fluoride.

After the extreme weather, a sign of climate change, President Obama stated that he would work to decrease climate change, but rumor has it that Lisa Jackson left the EPA in protest against his plan to approve Keystone XL, one of the most damaging projects planned in the world. Join the Feb. 17th Climate Rally in Washington, DC, AND tell the president not to approve Keystone XL!

We need innovative government policies to create good jobs now at the local, state and national level by establishing long overdue government policies in energy production. By establishing a well developed feed-in-tariff pricing system, which has been proven and implemented in over 80 jurisdictions around the world, the country will have the ability to make the changes necessary to be a leader in clean energy production and development which is so vital to our world right now.

MONTANA: A recent flurry of new state bills have been introduced seeking to reduce the wolf populations with even more aggressive management ‘tools’ that make it easier to hunt and trap more wolves. I am an animal rights advocate with a PASSION for WOLVES! I work along with many other advocates in many groups to SAVE and PROTECT all WOLF SPECIES here in the United States and Worldwide. We will not STOP our fight until they are returned to the ENDANGERED SPECIES LIST, before the last wolf is killed in our country...it's just a matter of time. We OPPOSE these bills and ask that you sign and share our petition along with contacting Montanas state agencies and businesses below to express that you also OPPOSE these wolf bills!

Fracking has serious health and environmental effects. So far, there is much grass roots activism in the midwestern and northeastern states most affected. I live in Washington State where there is no significant fracking yet. I want to encourage others like me to get involved and I want to let the federal government know we are here.

Coal Combustion Byproducts or Residuals ("CCB" or "CCR") are filled with concentrated toxins, including heavy metals such as arsenic, lead, and mercury, and other compounds such as hexavalent chromium (of Erin Brokovich fame). Power companies, such as American Electric Power ("AEP") and others are dumping CCBs into watersheds, in unlined "fill" projects which are categorized as "beneficial use" of the materials. After the Kingston, Tennessee collapse of a CCB pond in 2008, President Obama and the EPA vowed to prevent such a catastrophe agagain. After the EPA held public hearings in 2010, the overwhelming majority of comments were in favor of regulating CCBs as a hazardous solid waste under Subtitle C of the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act ("RCRA"). To date, the EPA has yet to deliver a sensible regulation on this material. Big Coal power companies such as AEP continue to use CCBs as an unregulated "fill" material, depositing it on the banks of rivers and streams that provide drinking water for entire communities. This practice must stop. Urge the President to allow the EPA to regulate CCBs as a hazardous waste under Subtitle C of RCRA!

holding dirty energy companies liable for the dirty air and consequent negative impact on human health, the ecosystem, all living beings and the planet. I live 1 mile from a coal burning power plant and smell the dirty air frequently. Even the dogs die from cancer around here

Gas and oil production are up nationally by 25 percent this year, yet Americans are still freezing to death each winter because they have had to make the choice between buying food and buying fuel. But energy is our number one export, and the gas and oil companies are sellling our precious resources to foreign buyers who can pay much more. Fracking, an environmentally perilous technology, is motivated not by necessity but by greed.

We must knit the United States together with a high speed rail system at least as fast as that of China.