According to the Democratic National Committee's 2012 Presidential Election Year Survey, no position on climate change will be taken in this year's campaign. We must demand that this year's Democratic election campaign openly take a strong position on this issue, and follow through on it.

Until last week, we were on the cusp of a major victory to restore Clean Water Act protections to nearly 25,000 miles of streams and many wetlands in Maine. President Obama and the Army Corps of Engineers were about to issue the new protections. These streams and wetlands feed our rivers and the drinking water for nearly half a million Mainers. But the House of Representatives, led by members doing the bidding of Big Oil and other polluters, voted last week to block these clean water protections, and the Senate is expected to vote on the issue next week. The vote is expected to be VERY close, and Senators Snowe and Collins appear to be on the fence so please sign the petition today.

"Sugar in the Raw"(tm) a popular "natural" product from Maui is created using controversial agricultural practices. Most egregiously, HC&S (the company that makes it) harvests their sugarcane by burning it. With 35,000 acres on a small island, this results in a massive release of CO2 and choking smoke which is damaging residents' health. Sugarcane can be harvested without burning (as is done in most of the world) and we would like HC&S to stop cane burning now.

Annapolis city government is about to approve a new policy that allows developers to bulldoze thru the laws that protect forests. The city plans to waterdown their enforcement standards of the Forest Conservation Act.

This year is the 40th anniversary of the Clean Water Act and Waterkeepers around the nation are working to achieve the central tenets of this important law: swimmable, drinkable, fishable waters for all. Unfortunately, our streams and rivers remain threatened by a variety of pollutants, many of our fisheries are near extinction and some members of the U.S Congress, pressured by polluting industries, are working hard to erode the protections of this important law. Wild salmon are a cultural and economic pillar in the Pacific Northwest and they are threatened with extinction. Industrial logging roads are a leading cause of sediment pollution, threatening water quality and native fish populations. Rogue Riverkeeper believes it is time for the logging industry to do its fair share to protect water quality. We oppose efforts underway to exempt the timber industry and logging roads from the Clean Water Act and we are asking for your help. For clean water and wild salmon, act now. www.rogueriverkeeper.org

I think we know what all this plastic is doing to our earth and our waters. What can we do about it? Why not put deposits on all plastic, at the very least, water bottles.

On June 14, 2012 you voted against bringing the Updated Bottle Bill out of the Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy Committee although 77% of the Massachusetts populace supports expanding recycling in the state. 10,000 signatures in favor of the bill have been collected. The signatures below identify your constituents who encourage you to support the bill. Your job is to represent your constituents, please vote in such a manner.

I envision a nation wide MonoRail system running down the middle of the Interstate Hwy system. Why on that right of way? The grading is already done, so are the interchanges and there are pylons in place to tie in the MonoRail pylons and the concrete rail bed. Consider the advantages: Employment for millions, concrete mfg, rail-car design & mfg, electric engine mnfg, train maintenance, system maintenance, dramatic reduction of fossile fuel consumption (airplanes consume incredible amounts), safety, ease of transit for families, lower cost of transit, movement of goods (required to use the system), taking long-haul trucks of the hwys, convenience, reduction of foreign oil consumption (Mid-east conflict eliminated), greenhouse gas reduction (affecting global warming), automobile reduction (those companies could build coach frames etc. instead) and drastic reduction of undue influence of "Big Oil"----and many other advantages.

On June 14, 2012 you voted against bringing the Updated Bottle Bill out of the Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy Committee although 77% of the Massachusetts populace supports expanding recycling in the state. 10,000 signatures in favor of the bill have been collected. The signatures below identify your constituents who encourage you to support the bill. Your job is to represent your constituents, please vote in such a manner.

Cities use sewage treatment plants to deal with it, secondary effluent, solids removed is great algae food that's why at the North Lake Tahoe plant they've fully recycled wastewater to prevent algae blooms. But that's expensive, flocking chemicals are used to pull the fertilizer out of the water, so if you use algae instead they take longer but do a better job making a final treatment relatively cheap to fully recycle the water. Then, if you harvest that algae it's worth about 2-gallons of biodiesel per person on the system per day, so each of us on a treatment plant system is worth about 2-gallons of a biofuel per day. The USA burns through about 474-million gallons a day of all types of transportation fuels with 300-million people that's 1.58-gallons per person per day to show the potential volume of purifying wastewater with algae. For cities they have to watch for toxins and such but if not there the pressed cakes of algae are proving to be good fertilizer for certain crops, early tests in Egypt show a huge 25% jump in wheat yields an example. So, this establishes from existing local infrastructure a high-volume source of a biofuel, recycles the water and produces a high-volume fertilizer. An example is Phoenix, AZ, and nearby superbowl Glendale each produce 10-million gallons a day, 41.5-million pounds of fertilizer the algae must consume and doing that they consume CO2 and give off O2 to grow, then worth some 3-million gallons a day of biodiesel each city. However, the key issue is recycling the water, not making the fuel which is simple, recycling the water means keeping up with millions of gallons a day in volume, a more difficult task.

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.