According to U.S. Navy estimates, the use of high frequency underwater sound for testing in Hawaii, the California and Atlantic Coasts, and the Gulf of Mexico will deafen more than 15,900 whales and dolphins and kill 1,800 more over the next 5 years. Whales and dolphins depend on sound to navigate and live. Your signature and comment could stop this Naval program, potentially saving the lives of these ocean creatures.

This petition is to get Congress is to get serious about policy on global warming. It's about having a planet that our children and their children could live on. It's about taking seriously the disappearing islands, the intense weather patterns, and the urgent warning of scientists worldwide. It's about having the discussion based on science, not the will of the Koch brothers.

In a time when taxpayers are spending $325 million dollars to remove dams in Washington State due to the environmental devastation they cause, SnoPUD a local power company is planning to spend upwards of $150 million to erect a new dam on a river that has 4 levels of protection against dams. The project violates several environmental protections for rivers and clean water. Washington voters passed an initiative in 2006 (i937) to phase out hydropower in favor of renewable resources like wind, solar, geothermal, etc.. Washington State officials need to know SnoPUD must be held to same environmental restrictions as citizens, that we do not want any more dams, and SnoPUD must abandon the project immediately.

INDUSTRIAL HEMP: A NEW BEGINNING submitted to UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION UNITED STATES HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES by the NORTH AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL HEMP COUNCIL, INC. Erwin "Bud" Sholts, Chairman Post Office Box 232 Oregon, WI 53575-0232 Executive Summary For centuries industrial hemp (hereinafter referred to as hemp) has been grown commercially around the world. History is replete with accounts of the many vital uses of its fiber and oilseed. Paper, fuel, building material, and clothing are most widely known. The following materials sketch out a possible way forward for growing industrial hemp in the United States, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and other government agencies.

We want a clear statement BEFORE the 2012 election! Do not keep us guessing!

There are two meeting scheduled for the public prior to the adoption of the proposed widening of 24th Street. The is the Plan A which takes the houses on the north side of street and walls it off. Plan B is to take the houses on the South side of the street. Plan C is to not to expand the street. That is the No Build Alternative. We support No Build Alternative. TRIP (Thomas Road Improvement Project) will be taking comments from the citizens before seeking approval with the City of Bakersfield Planning Commision scheduled for July 5, 2012. The project is expected to commence in 2013 if approved.

to move toward a brighter future for all of us and our future generations

Sign this petition to help fight the encroachment of capitalism on a small town that is losing the charm that attracts people to it.

Behind our backs, the Air Quality Mgt Dist and State and Local Officials in the sun-drenched, wind-swept Palm Springs area have sold the health and well-being of its hundreds of thousands of residents to GE and Mitsubishi for $53 million, for the privilege of building Sentinel, a natural gas-burning power plant that will spew four times the legal amount of known carcinogens into the air, thus exacerbating climate change and global warming, and contaminating our fertile soil, our drinking water, the air we breathe. [CA Energy Commission, 2011, 478-pp report] We refuse to allow this to happen. This area has ideal conditions to place us #1 in the world for solar- and wind-produced energy. To that end, GE and Mitsubishi must spend their $100 millions to replace Sentinel with the most technologically advanced, state of the art solar- and wind-energy producing facilities!

In california lots companies,state / city owned beaches ,parks,hospitals are smoke free or just have designated areas for smokers that help protect non-smokers from breathing in 2nd hand smoke.I work in LAX airport and been suffering from 2nd hand smoke when working in high traffic areas of airport . All sinage is very poorly made nobody respects the sinage even workers. Im pushing this so I can make a difference for us LAWA/airport employees and travelers that dont smoke. Los angeles cliams theres no money.i belive if they push smoking areas and smokers are found smoking in areas that they're not smoking areas , the city should make a paypal account and charge 20$ for every violation . Keeping smokers from getting workers sick and helping keep LAX from being a better safer work enviroment .

Deposits for all plast'stic drinking bottles......money for us pickers, cleaner communities, healthier environment....it seems pretty silly that bottling companies are spending so much of their money (that we wind up paying for) to oppose a bill which we are going to pay for anyway. I don't drink less Diet Coke because there's a deposit. You wonder where the brains are.

Our national policy is to lessen the impact of global warming. Decreasing the burning of fossil fuels is part of that policy. By encouraging the export of coal to China we encourage the continued use of what is really a toxic fuel. Not only is the burning of coal bad for the citizens of China, but from that burning, CO2, Sulfuric acid, nitrous oxide and mercury will drift as airborne pollutant to the West coast. I am not sure that the increase in jobs is worth the increase in the hazards to our health and that of the environment.