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.

Scientists tell us that burning fossil fuels has caused the global climate changes that lead to droughts and floods and eventually threaten the ability of humans to survive on Earth. To turn the situation around we've got to stop burning petroleum.

The tax credit for wind energy is set to expire at the end of this year if Congress doesn't take action. Unlike fossil fuel subsidies, which are long term and have never expired, subsidies for renewable energy have been terminated three times in the last two decades. It is time we become serious about fighting climate change. Supporting renewable energy will not only decrease our CO2 emissions but will also support our economy and help us move toward energy independence.

According to the Washington Post, by the end of September more than $200 million had been spent on print ads by the two primary Presidential campaigns alone. Hundreds of millions more have been wasted on Senate and House campaigns. They're junking up our mailboxes, swamping our landfills, and wasting natural resources. Most people pitch them without even looking at them because none of the ads can be trusted to provide unbiased facts. We need a way to OPT OUT.

We have no recycling!

Ban fracking in San Miguel County.

Arizona should require the mandatory labeling of genetically engineered (GMO) foods. We have a right to know about what is in the food we eat and and feed to our families.