PROTECTING THE ESTERO AND WILDERNESS

Rebuild the nations critical infrastructure including burial of all above ground wiring..

Stop the slaughter of wolves there mammals they have feelings too

Please sign to urge the NC General Assembly to repeal Senate Bill 820 - the Clean Energy and Economic Security Act. If ever there was a bill with a categorically fallacious name, this is it. It will provide neither clean energy nor economic security. First, water contamination WILL occur because the shale field actually pierces the aquifer. Drinking water will be laced with carcinogens. Second, because the shale deposits in Chatham, Lee and Moore counties contain natural gas reserves of less than five years, as estimated by the NC State geologist, the alleged economic boom will usher in a bust within five years. Moreover, fewer than 400 jobs per year will be provided, and most of these will be filled with wildcatters from other fracking states. Fracking is a 24-7 nightmare. There is non-stop noise; entire roads are destroyed; entire communities are disrupted. Please repeal Senate Bill 820. Keep NC frack-free.

If we don't take huge steps to stop CLIMATE CHANGE, it will be too late to build energy solutions. My students started Kids 4 Hydrogen to get 55,000 Californians to sign a wait list to purchase hydrogen fuel cell cars in the year 2015. By getting people to agree to purchase a car (no obligation or money down), we can build the hydrogen infrastructure needed to fuel these cars. More info at www.kids4hydrogen.org.

There are many reasons to call for a moratorium. This petition will have the most impact if we all speak from the heart, but if you're pressed for time or feeling lazy, why not copy and paste "Chill, baby, chill - no more dirty drilling" into the comment field? Or what I wrote, "I demand a moratorium on further gas permits until a proper harms/benefits analysis with public review and comment, evaluating the cumulative impacts of the entire 10,000+ square mile Marcellus play in Pennsylvania, is completed; and enforceable regulations to ensure the gas is extracted safely, responsibly and fairly have been implemented." A proper study would show we should leave this gas in the ground. Want to do more? Email Governor Corbett , DEP Secretary Krancer and your state senator and representative. You can look up your legislators in the upper right corner of www.legis.state.pa.us.

I hate daylight savings time! I hate springing ahead each spring and then falling back 8 months later. It is time to end of practice of messing with our internal clocks.

In light of Hurricane Sandy's destruction and ongoing climate change, local and state businesses must publicly provide a list of all their environmental practices to the citizens in those municipalities in which they do business.

This petition calls for Iowa farmers to quit spraying Anhydrous Ammonia, Glyphosate, 2-4-D, and any other hazardous industrial farming application within 500 feet of any public roadway and rural houses.

“The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection produces incomplete lab reports and uses them to dismiss complaints that Marcellus Shale gas development operations have contaminated residential water supplies and made people sick, according to court documents.” When I read this opening sentence in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette I almost fell out of my chair. This seemed like something from a bad movie from the 1980’s about how the big bad corporate lobbyists have influenced government watchdogs by contributing millions to the state’s governor. But it’s not a movie. It’s happening now. Gov. Corbett received $1.3 million from drilling interests in his campaign for governor. He also received another $6 million from organizations affiliated with the drillers. And in return the drillers received a Department of Environmental Protection that may be routinely falsifying reports to homeowners who ask for their water to be tested. When homeowners suspect that their water has been contaminated by drilling in their area, they can ask the DEP to check for metals, organic material and volatile organic compounds (VOC). Depositions of two DEP employees allege that the DEP tests for all contaminants, but omits some of the most dangerous contaminants in their reports to the homeowners. According to the Post-Gazette, “The omissions include heavy metals, including lithium, cobalt, chromium, boron and titanium, some of which are human carcinogens or toxics, as well as volatile organic compounds that are associated with hydraulic fracturing fluids.” If it is true, then it is criminal. Everyone involved should go to jail for putting Pennsylvania’s families at risk. State Representative Jesse White (D, Allegheny, Beaver, Washington) has called for an investigation for “alleged misconduct and fraud.” We agree. PA’s enforcement agencies are too tightly controlled by Tom Corbett to conduct an independent investigation. So we’re calling on U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate whether these allegations are true, and if so, to find out who ordered reports that mislead the public and put us all at risk of cancer by hiding the contamination of our water and air.

Many people are concerned about the effects of hydraulic fracturing on water supplies and the water table in the geographic areas where fracturing is conducted. Executives and PR folks and captive scientists of those companies doing "fracking" insist that it is harmless. They should prove it by consuming exclusively the same water that the people where they conduct their operations are forced to consume. If it's safe, they won't mind. If they object, we can ask why. If they won't say, deny the permit. If they won't do it, or stop doing it, or evade the requirement, suspend the permit immediately. Problem solved.

San Francisco as we know it will not exist if sea levels rise temporarily from a Tsunami or permanently from what seems like the inevitable climate change other countries have planned for. The least we can do is let our political leaders know, we want to pay now instead of paying later and losing our beloved coastline.