When it comes to protecting the health of Pennsylvanians, you would hope the government would always use the most stringent and comprehensive tests available and would report the full results of those tests to homeowners. But, you’d be wrong. For more than four years, the Department of Environmental Protection has been able to test for 45 contaminants in its water-sample analysis. Instead, it has only tested for fewer than half those contaminants for the last two years—leaving off numerous dangerous toxins including selenium, arsenic, mercury and chromium. A number of the contaminants left off the test cause nausea, vomiting, hair loss, cellular damage, tremors and more. These are all symptoms that have been reported by individuals living near gas drilling operations.

Charge a extraction fee for all raw oil that's pumped and make it so that fee doesn't get passed onto consumers. This could also include natural gas that is brought to surface. Maybe way to check fracking.

Governor Brown has declared war on the largest fresh water estuary remaining in California. North Delta Farmers, recreation and commercia fisherman, and legitamate environmentalist organizations demand that he and the greedy water purveyors to the stop this evil plan. We demand that the state support of this horror be stopped immediately. For more information go to www.restorethedelta.org

President Carter put Solar Panels on the Roof of the White House to show support for alternative energy. President Reagan took it down as a symbol of his non-support of clean energy.

Alberta's Tar sands coming into Maine for export????When NASA's Jim Hanson says "Game Over" for the planet, why are we still talking about this..."when the Power of Love overcomes the Love of Power the world will know Peace(Jimi Hendrix)

I am irritated that every rational green initiative starts in California first and that they now,along with Australia,New Zealand,and S.Korea,are beginning a cap and trade system,while our legislature occupys itself with thinking small.I suggest that we replace our regressive state income tax system with a carbon tax on oil,coal,and natural gas,adjusted upwards yearly as,like good Yankees,we all try to invest in energy upgrades,solar roofs,hybrid and electric cars so that we can have our neighbor who doesn't do this pay our carbon tax.This will spur local investment and put us ahead of those states taxing income,investment,and payroll.

HD2959, if enacted, could have the potential to dramatically reduce disposed waste and recover millions of tons of valuable materials to use as feedstock for new products in Mass., saving money and resources, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and creating many jobs. The bill requires that all residents, businesses and waste haulers comply with the existing bans on the disposal of recyclable materials from their point of generation.

The President may be tempted to give in on an issue that must be championed – protecting the climate from the exceptionally dirty fuels of the Canada Tar Sands. NASA’s James Hansen wrote, “If we were to fully exploit this new oil source, and continue to burn our conventional oil, gas and coal supplies, concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere eventually would reach levels higher than in the Pliocene era, … when sea level was at least 50 feet higher than it is now.…the disintegration of the ice sheets would accelerate out of control. Sea levels would rise and destroy coastal cities. Global temperatures would become intolerable.” The teachable moment of Hurricane Sandy must not be forgotten.

On January 25, 2013, a dolphin was injured and trapped in the toxic waters of the Gowanus canal in Brooklyn. It fought for its life for over 6 hours, while bystanders were taking pictures, and news helicopters were flying by. Local officials decided not to intervene to save the dolphin. After 6 to 8 hours trapped in the very polluted waters, the dolphin died. In 2007 a baby whale also got trapped and died in the canal. The Gowanus canal is man made, and its high level of toxicity and pollution is due to us. We need to have a protocol in place for rapid rescue to help these large mammals swim back to the bay when they get trapped. No large mammal should ever die trapped in the Gowanus canal. We have a moral responsibility to have a protocol of rapid rescue in place, and we need our local officials to explore every option to prevent future deaths.

The Keystone pipeline travelling through Nebraska will put crucial Nebraska water at risk. This water is necessary not only for drinking, but also for the integrity of our agriculture. Tar sands are so viscous that the pipeline will need to be heated with natural gas, which will also affect the agriculture and water safety of Nebraskans.

Stop the pollution and releases of Lake Okeechobee Florida, ruining the environment and killing the wildlife

Missouri should be "The Show 'YOU' State, and we can do that by looking at what will give us two things perpetually, or at least until the Earth cools off. To create jobs, even before the idea of what to produce comes up, electricity has to be available, giga watts of it. It has to be cheap and it has to go on everywhere, no matter what. Under 37,000 feet of ocean water is sea bottom, and under that and ever other square inch of surface on this planet there is an unending source of heat. In 2006 at Chena Hot Springs, Alaska, (I believe) Conoco, and Carrier (air conditioning) Co. have put a geothermal electricity producing operation that has operated at minus 60 Fahrenheit. The cost of electricity has gone from .30 cents per KW to less than .07 per KW. It operates from the heat of the earth, and will for the next 4 billion years. We are going to run out of oil, coal and gas in the next few generations, and the costs are not going to come down. With the cost of production and start up time of the Nuclear facility in Louisiana, the whole United States could have one geothermal electricity producing plant in all 50 States, 5 years before the nuclear one starts up and put about 40,000 to 50,000 people to work, ad infinitum . Ray Wallace