Legislation was introduced at the end of 2011, and with your support 2012 could be the year that the creeks and roadless forests of the Lower Rogue River are permanently protected! Please speak up for this national treasure and ask the Senate to protect these public lands and waters for all of America.

It has just come to my attention that the US has signed but never consented to agree to abide by the1994 UNCLOS Treaty, along with Libya, North Korea, and some landlocked states in Asia and Alaska! UNCLOS stands for the Law of the Seas Treaty. It has been signed and agreed to however by 161 other countries plus the EU! This Treaty is a "constitution for the ocean" - It provides a legal framework within which all legal ocean activities must operate to protect from the real perils of over fishing and pollution. This petition is to insist that the US take on the responsibility of being a world leader in saving our oceans from dying.

we have the right to know what food we are buying and how it has been grown and processes used to put it on the grocery shelves. I am concerned about genetically engineered foods that are not labeled. This should be an FDA requirement !

During the past year, the City of Memphis is requiring all vehicles with the exception of a few exempted vehicles to complete an On-Board Diagnostic Test. While this Diagnostic Test is important to our environment, I believe it is unfair to the citizens of Memphis since surrounding counties are not required to participate in the inspection process. It is my hope that all of the citizens of Tennessee will sign this petition as a beacon for our concerns over this tedious process.

Did you know that over the past decade, the big five oil companies – BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil and Shell – have earned more than $1 trillion in profits? At the same time, these oil companies also enjoy billions in special tax breaks. Meanwhile, Big Oil’s congressional allies continue to push ‘oil above all’ energy policies – from advancing the toxic Keystone XL tar sands pipeline to expanding dangerous drilling off our coasts. It’s time to fight back. The Senate may soon vote on legislation to end billions of dollars in annual giveaways that the Big Oil companies receive. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) has introduced the ‘Repeal Big Oil Tax Subsidies Act’ (S. 2204), which would cut billions of dollars in unnecessary oil subsidies. Additionally, the senator’s bill would use those savings to invest in clean, renewable energy sources that would create new jobs, make America more energy independent and reduce harmful pollution. It makes absolutely no sense that ExxonMobil, which reported annual profits of $41 billion in 2011, continues to benefit from massive taxpayer-funded government handouts. But this upcoming Senate vote represents an opportunity to put every senator on the record. As President Obama said recently, “They can either stand up for oil companies, or they can stand up for the American people.”

FEMA-HURRICANE KATRINA trailers are loaded with mold and formaldahyde. These toxins are carcinogenic to humans. People are sick and have died from living in them. Sellers are selling the trailers without giving the information of health risks. Families are being left in despair!

Close all DEQ Vehicle Station's. DEQ has out lived it's, purpose. Catalytic Converters are now on all cars and therefore DEQ is an outdated fuction to keep clean Air from dirty vehicles. DEQ is an unfair requirement of the people of Oregon.

I am concerned about carbon dioxide emissions. They must be lowered for everyone's health.

State Senator Jonathan Courtney (R-York County), Majority Leader in the Maine Legislature, has identified his intent to introduce a “Joint Resolution Memorializing the President & the Congress of the United States to Support the Completion of the Keystone XL Pipeline”. This resolution needs to be opposed in both the Senate and the House of the Maine State Legislature for the reasons identified. Sources: 1. http://www.350.org/en/node/28109 2. http://www.nrcm.org/tarsands.asp 3. look around... 4. http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/globallaborinstitute/research/ upload/GLI_KeystoneXL_Reportpdf.pdf 5. http://www.maineenvironews.com; see "EXCLUSIVE: Maine legislators to take up Keystone oil pipeline issue" see photos:http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/201111/tar-sands/

Oil drilled on Federal lands belongs to us, the taxpayers, not the oil industry. It is time for us, the taxpayers to have a say in how the oil is used and what the payment from the oil companies should be to us, the taxpayers.

The Hawai‘i Undersea Research Laboratory is the only U.S. deep submergence facility in the Pacific Rim tasked with supporting undersea research necessary to fulfill the mission, goals, and objectives of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), along with other national interests of importance. Over 30 years of submersible operations have resulted in nearly 1900 dives representing 9300 hours underwater, and a benthic ecology database derived from in-house video record logging of over 125,000 entries based on 1100 unique deep-sea animal identifications in the Hawaiian Archipelago. With emerging interest in marine resources of the Pacific and renewable energy from the sea, HURL's contributions will continue to play an essential role in scientific research and advanced technology. HURL was established by Cooperative Agreement in 1980 between NOAA and the University of Hawai‘i, at which point it became a Regional Center in NOAA's Undersea Research Program (NURP). In 2009, President Obama signed Public Law 111-11 authorizing both NURP and Ocean Exploration (OE), and their administration under a merged program called the Office of Ocean Exploration and Research (OER). The Center supports highly-rated, peer-reviewed proposals to conduct undersea research in offshore and nearshore waters of the main and Northwestern Hawaiian Islands and waters of the central, southern, and western Pacific, including the new marine national monuments. In addition, HURL accepts funded requests from private, state, or federal agencies and participates in international collaborative research projects. As of March, 2012, NOAA has zeroed out funding for the Undersea Research Program (NURP) for FY13 beginning Oct 1, 2012, and put all the centers on life support funding (or less) for the current year. Many other NOAA programs, mostly extramural ones, have been cut to some level, though it appears only NURP and another have had their funding zeroed out completely. From NOAA’s 2013 OAR budget description: "National Undersea Research Program (NURP): NOAA requests a decrease of $3,985,000 and 6 FTEs to terminate the NURP component of OER. NOAA determined that NURP was a lower-priority function within its portfolio of research activities, particularly given that other avenues of Federal funding for such activities might be pursued. NOAA will continue to support the Ocean Exploration program, which delineates the Extended Continental Shelf and produces significant discoveries in deep sea research. Competitive grants for related activity will continue to be offered through NOAA and other Federal programs." As of right now, there is no known other funding to maintain the manned submersible capability that HURL provides. Hawai‘i is home to two of only eight human occupied submersibles of their kind. Pisces IV and Pisces V are three-person, battery-powered, one-atmosphere submersibles with a maximum operating depth of 2000 m. They offer scientists direct observation through view ports, HD video cameras, sample collecting, instrument placement, and environmental monitoring. Over the past 30 years HURL's accomplishments include long-term studies of Lo‘ihi submarine volcano and the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Notable discoveries include an historically significant Japanese midget submarine and deep-sea corals that are some of the oldest living organisms on Earth. Work in the newest U.S. marine national monuments led to an international five-month investigation throughout the central and southwestern Pacific that involved 58 scientists from 12 research entities and included the first submersible dives on 13 different undersea volcanoes. A new 6000-m capable ROV will further enable exploration of NOAA’s four new Marine National Monuments in the Pacific. For a relatively small ~$3 million per year, this type of work can continue. It will cost far more to recreate this capability in the future than to support it now and let it evolve to meet the NOAA missions and National interests of the future. We are calling on Congress to appropriate adequate money so that the U.S. can be a world leader in deep-sea research via a submersible-based scientific program presence in the Pacific region. NOAA as a whole does really good work; let us help it continue.

Stop Natural Gas drilling when there is a surplus of natural gas that we are selling to China. Natural Gas Drilling (Frac'ing) is an UNREGULATED highly toxic process done by the gas and oil industry with strong lobbies in Washington.