Local towns are deciding on the legality of keeping hormone free, antbiotic free chickens being raised at home. This limits are choices. It would offer no alternative to the factory farm model with its hormones, anti-biotics and the toxic waste residue that degrades and pollutes our towns and fields. Regulation of home raised chickens and factory farmed chickens should equally be held accoutable for the commensary damages incurrerd.

Yosemite Area Audubon is joining with California Audubon and many other friends and supporters of the San Joaquin River. The San Joaquin River belongs to everyone in the Valley. We're speaking up for it, and we'd like you to join us.

Yes. California just voted to address humane farming regarding Chickens, veal, and to stop poisons in sprays, etc. The Pork Industry is afraid that these measures might creep into the Pork States like Iowa. They went to have Federal standards of food production and want to deny States from enacting their own standards. They snuck an amendment into the Agricultural bill at midnight denying States the right to pass their own food productions laws. This will undo our pesticide laws, humane laws, milk standards, egg productions,, etc.

If we're going to build a pipeline from the Canadian border, let's build one to bring water from the Great Lakes to Texas. Let's power the pumps with solar and wind power installed along its route. Let's help the climate change deniers see the benefits of renewable energy sources to them.

Tell Congress to stop with the financial yo-yo effect in the renewable energy industry, and give clean energy suppliers a predictable tax regulation environment for the next decade. The federal PTC is the biggest factor in renewable energy development, and its impending expiration and year-by-year on-off nature us causing boim and bust cycles in the entire industry. This could mean the difference between a domestic manufacturing base, or more foreign imports.

Keystone Pipeline Rebuttal

Three of the richest counties in Pennsylvania have voted to ban Marcellus Shale drilling in their counties. The rest of us are having it shoved down our throats. My ancestors were farmers here in Southwestern PA, which is under seige by these drillers and now the countryside in covered with water buffaloes for private homes drinking water. I and my family all live in Southwestern PA and need clean water too Help Us!

The TMUA, a board composed of the mayor and 6 unelected people have ignored the recommendations that the nationally renowned water expert, Bob Bowcock presented to Tulsa for a SAFE, effective and affordable option for Tulsa to meet the new EPA water guidelines. The TMUA chose to use chloramine instead, in spite of public outcry and new information about the dangers of chloramine. While the TMUA assures us that chlroamine is safe, it is known to damage health and property. Current research is showing that the unregulated byproducts of chlroamine damages DNA, cells, is carcinogenic and has multiple adverse health affects. It is know to leach lead into the water. Chloramine cannot be boiled out, distilled out or evaporated out and filters like reverse osmosis won't remove it!

Global mining giants want to gouge one of the world’s largest gold and copper mines – an open-pit 2,000 to 5,000 ft-deep behemoth – into the headwaters of Bristol Bay, generating an estimated 10 billion tons of contaminated waste – 3,000 pounds of waste for every person on earth! The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has found that large-scale mining in the area would jeopardize the region’s legendary salmon runs – the lynchpin of the areas world-class ecosystem that supports Native communities’ subsistence fishing as well as a $445 million annual commercial and recreational fisheries economy. The EPA has the authority under the Clean Water Act to block terribly destructive projects like Pebble Mine. Your signature and comment will urge EPA administrator Lisa Jackson to save Bristol Bay by banning large-scale mining in the area, including the Pebble Mine.

As part of its settlement agreement over Clean Air Act violations, the Tennessee Valley Authority has agreed to provide North Carolina $11.2 million over the next five years, with the first two payments of $4.5M coming in 2013. These funds can be allocated to 14 different categories of projects, such as energy efficiency, renewable energy, carbon-dioxide reduction, and pollution mitigation; AND should be targeted towards the region most affected by the original emissions—Western North Carolina. During the recent budgeting process, these funds were moved to the N.C. Department of Agriculture and the N.C. Biofuels Center and are at risk of being spent in other parts of the state.

North Carolina legislators have passed a bill that forces state leaders to ignore scientific predictions that sea levels could rise by more than three feet in the next century. Just weeks ago a US Geological Survey study found the Cape Hatteras region a hot spot for sea level rise. We can't ignore sound science when it comes to global warming, rising sea levels and North Carolina's 301 miles of coastline. We are calling on Governor Perdue to put this matter to rest with her veto.

Environmentalists have expressed concerns about pollution from drilling and the method known as hydraulic fracturing, which blasts millions of gallons of chemically laced water into the earth to fracture shale formations and release oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids such as propane. Governor Kasich is relying on this plan to create jobs for Ohioans. However, like the non-renewable resources he wants to drill for, the jobs too will run out. Please tell Gov. Kasich to stop this potentially irreversible damage to Ohio's parks and groundwater, and instead research and implement renewable resources for creating energy in Ohio.