Gas drilling companies require lease holders to sign said agreements which force landowners to agree to silence where drilling errors are made. The penalty for breaking these agreements is a lawsuit initiated against the leaseholder by the gas company.

Offset rain forest loss by minimum mowing of our Interstate highway system shoulders and middles. We'll use less fuel, reduce pollution from burning that fuel. Let nature reseed the road middles and shoulders with oxygen creating trees, shrubs and wild flowers. Lovely greenery, beautiful flowers, better air quality, fewer dollars spent. What's not to like?

We'd like to use efficient modes of transportation, like walking, bicycles, and transit, but there are too many cars in the way. Every level of government subsidizes the least efficient mode of transportation, the individual automobile, by spending our taxes on more pavement and requiring designs to accommodate petroleum burners.

Being a native Vermonter, I have a natural appreciation for the beauty in my home state. This could change drastically should a tar sands pipeline be built here. Just the deforestation required to maintain the pipeline would be a travesty in this beautiful State. A leak in the pipeline would pose a direct risk to local species and our water supply.

Hydro fracking is causing huge problems everywhere it is done. There are many groups trying to put a stop to it. sierra club is doing a good job of raising awareness. we need to do everything we can to make people aware of the dangers.

Western Oregon BLM manages 2.6 million acres of public forests - some of the greatest temperate conifer forests in the world. Western Oregon BLM forests surround our communities. People live next to BLM forests, we recreate in BLM forests, and we get our drinking water from BLM forests. There are currently two major developments on Oregon BLM forests. 1) Legislative proposals to manage large portions of BLM forests for the sole purpose of timber production and 2) The Obama Administration has initiated the process of creating a new management plan for these special public lands. Your voice is needed.

Jerry Brown, Please Ban Fracking in California. There is no safe way to Frack. Show your people you respect them, and therefore their land, air, and water. Please protect California Clean Water Resources. Ban Fracking in California! There are lucrative Clean Energy Alternatives! This video spells out why Fracking is not safe, and why other states like NY are on the same page (Copy and paste in your browser) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed9lQcSTeEM&feature=youtu.be&a

Asian carp threaten the entire eco-system of the Great Lakes and all industries and lifestyle that these beautiful lakes support. We can stop them by concerted and immediate action. We need only restore the Chicago River to its original direction!

80% of US electricity can be provided by solar/wind by 2050--New study by hundreds of US energy scientists proves it is possible--this can be a game changer, but only if we tell the politicians to make it happen! http://www.nrel.gov/analysis/re_futures/

Earthjustice, the non-profit law firm for the environment, has lauched an online photo petition to stop mountaintop removal, an extreme form of coal mining that is burying thousands of miles of streams in Appalachia and making people sick. Please join in our capaign to protect families, communities, and the environment. Send a message to President Obama and add your picture to the Mountain Heroes petition at http://earthjustice.org/mountain-heroes

I’m lucky enough to be able to spend my retirement enjoying the beautiful beaches of Wilmington, North Carolina. But by the time my youngest grandkids have grown up, sea level rise caused by global warming pollution could put parts of Wilmington underwater. Instead of working to save North Carolina’s coast for future generations, legislators in my state are trying to pass laws officially ignoring the threat. The State Senate recently approved a bill that requires our state’s coastal commission to use only historical data to plan for sea level rise. So instead of assuming that the sea will rise 39 inches this century, as climate scientists predict, these legislators want to insist it will only rise 8 inches. The North Carolina House has suggested an alternative that’s only slightly less ridiculous: they want to pass a five-year moratorium on considering climate science in coastal planning. So the Senate wants to outlaw science, while the House wants to suspend it. These proposals are the brainchild of group called NC-20, which wants to ignore sea level rise predictions because it will slow down real estate development. Amazingly, the group’s chairman denies that climate change is even occurring, saying, “Why not wait a few years until global cooling resurfaces?” Places like Wilmington are already facing more frequent flooding and the destruction of homes, wetlands, and ecosystems. Our legislators are elected to protect us from these threats. Instead, they're siding with climate change deniers, and simply hoping things will cool down. We can’t afford to ignore science, and we shouldn’t wait five years to start preparing. Tell your State Representative: oppose any bill that refuses to acknowledge established climate science and sea level rise predictions.

Tell Rep. Marguerite Quinn, of the 143rd Assembly District, one of the architects of Act 13, passed in the PA state legislature that this cannot stand. Act 13 strips away our local zoning laws, enforces a "gag order" on our doctors, and allows drilling and open impoundment pits of fracking waste that threaten to pollute our ground, water and air for ourselves, our children and generations to come.