The Tres Rios BLM office in Southwest Colorado is about to authorize a Land Lease in Southwest Colorado without doing a thorough analysis of environmental and community requirements.

Fracking is a proven technology that will give us cheaper and cleaner energy.

The carbon lobby have managed to thwart the good efforts of Lisa Jackson. She's gone, but let's not let them succeed in pressuring Obama to appoint a lapdog.

With the advent of current technologies and regulations, the Fracking process is a fundamentally safe method to extract natural gas from our deep, abundant deposits. To lessen our dependency on foreign energy, and provide a cleaner source of domestic energy for electric generation, the ban should be lifted in New York State.

The scientific evidence clearly shows that anthropogenic climate change is real and is a concerning matter for the future of our planet including but not limited to: crops, sea level, and storm strength. This has already started to have consequences in food prices, drought in the southwest are only going to get worse if this continues unchecked.

It uses up our fresh water and creates polluted water. It creates a wasteland out of once beautiful landscapes.

Shell oil's drilling rig is floundering in Alaska seas even before drilling begins threatening to detroy our last pristine coastal area. Clearly Shell Oil (and EPA permitting process) have underestimated the difficulties of drilling there and Shell's permit should be revoked before they turn Alaska into another major oil disaster area.

My name is Rick McCorkle, and I'm a University of Delaware Alumnus (M.S. in Applied Ocean Science, Class of 2001) and professional fish and wildlife biologist. With fossil fuel corporations banking on exploiting 5 times the amount of carbon considered safe to burn without exceeding a 2-degree C global temperature increase (see http://math.350.org/ ), universities should not be investing in their business plans for wrecking the planet! Please join me in asking the University of Delaware's Board of Trustees to DIVEST from Fossil Fuel Corporations.

Too much water in one place should be sent to where it is needed as an economic engine. Send the annual flood waters of the lower Mississippi River to the midwest for a sustainable bread basket and eliminate the annual fisheries Gulf of Mexico dead zone and property destruction in the South.

In the past, when the Western Pacific Timber corporation was granted ownership of public land they developed it for summer homes and/or ranchettes. If this happens you will see "No Trespassing" signs the next time you go fishing, hunting, camping or hiking at your favorite location on what used to be public land.

The elephants are going to disappear in the world if we dont act swiftly. They are being poached for the Chinese consumer for wealth and status show off. This must be stopped by world condemnation and sanctions. Stop buying all goods made in China. If even a small percentage of drop off of the west buying cheaper chinese goods were made it could cause a change in Chinese government policy to remove and prohibit the selling of all ivory. Its the greed and ignorance that is fueling this tragedy. Lets do something as a people/human world wide movement and save the defenseless elephant. Please realize that soon the only elephants left will be in animal parks and zoos. 70% of the ivory bought currently according to todays NYT article (1/6/13) is bought by the growing Chinese wealthy to bring them luck and show off their prosperity to each other. This is an absurd reason to kill an animal especially one that is becoming extinct. In fact it is beyond shameful if we do not act successfully; this should be a war to save the elephant. Please spread the word to the new secretary of state John Kerry, President Obama, your senators, all your friends, the Chinese government, and anyone else you can think of. This could be a people movement if we make it by each of us of thinking about our memories of elephants and their importance in this world. Do we want a world without the elephant?

We have wonderfully farmers in Kentucky and hemp is a good cash crop. Let the crop get a good start and take its share of the future market!