Plastic is (usually) a product of petroleum. It clogs our landfills and supports unsavory regimes. Most of our packaging is plastic when it could be biodegradable, renewable paper instead.

The Fukushima multiple nuclear meltdown proved that the GE Mark 1 Boiling Water Reactor has a defective containment and is vulnerable to hydrogen explosions in a loss of power accident. Because the spent fuel pools, filled to bursting, are situated on top of these old reactors, an explosion can spread the highly irradiated spent fuel up to a mile away, as at Fukushima, and air and water contamination across continents. The Pilgrim reactor in Plymouth, MA and the VT Yankee reactor in Vernon Vermont are of the Fukushima design. They are 40 years old, running above their designed power load, leaking, embrittled, outmoded, out of compliance or exempt from NRC's own fire safety and other regulations, and should be retired and decommissioned at once. The risk of an accident with such enormous consequences should demand immediate precautionary action, as was taken by Germany, Japan, and other countries. As Fukushima showed, the risk of catastrophe with Mark 1 reactors is just a power failure away. Retire all Mark 1 BWR's.

We need (as promised) offshore wind turbines to give us pollution free and waste free clean energy! Not to mention the jobs they will create in manufacturing, delivery, and maintaining them. When will they start building them?

The FAA, in a series of airport improvement projects using local contractors, has unintentionally caused the mining of near-shore lagoon coral reefs as a source of fill; the local EPA has always approved or ignored this practice. For example, in 2008 a large reef was mined by PII (a local company) for the ARFF fire station project (pictures available on Flickr). The US is required to follow a higher environmental road, thanks to Bill Clinton's Executive Order 13089, which specifically requires protection of coral reefs even outside the US. Yet coral mining has again been approved, and may start within months, if local EPA approves it (for a second time) and if the US Embassy here in Majuro approves the local approval.

Plastic bottles make ugly, long lasting rubbish. Some make it into our landfills, but the rest are trashing our roadsides, and endangering our wildlife. Only a very few are ever recycled and the petroleum they're made from could be put to better uses. Missourians can live without plastic bottles, but the state's natural beauty is too high a price to pay for "convenience".

Lightweight plastic bags are ugly, they don't go away, few locales and fewer individuals recycle them and they kill wildlife when tossed into our woods and streams. We don't need them and we lived perfectly well without them only a few years ago. Missouri has a strong heritage of support for our state's natural beauty - these eye-sores have to go.

Oppose Mayor Bloomberg's plan to build a 10-story solid waste processing plant adjacent to Asphalt Green, the East River Esplanade and Carl Schurz Park and 100 feet from residential apartment buildings, shops, restaurants and schools and 280 feet from the largest New York City Public Housing complex.

New Yorkers deserve clean drinking water and an environment that is not polluted from the carcinogenic chemicals associated with hydrofracking. By signing this petition you will help protect the groundwater and the water supply from chemicals related to hydrofracking. You will also protect the environment and the surrounding lakes and farmland from these chemicals so that futurre generations can enjoy the benefits from clean water and a healthy environment where they can live, work and raise their families.

Any reduction in T service will effect poor people the most. It will also effect shop owners and commuters.

In many states public access to fishing streams is blocked by the sale of land to private landowners who restrict access, require exorbitant fees, or rent space for short periods of time. House Bill 144 would protect and enhance the right of Alaskans to enjoy our unparalleled fishing streams into the future by helping ensure that fishing stream access is not sold or developed. The bill has passed both houses unanimously, and now we respectfully request that the Governor join Alaskans and Alaska’s fishing groups in support of this bill by signing this legislation into law. Polite letters to the Governor at sean.parnell @alaska.gov and [email protected] are encouraged so he knows the measure enjoys public support. To learn more go to http://akdemocrats.org/rep_gara/.

This a totally insane power grab to create a vertically integrated gas-monopoly with no opportunity for regulatory oversight and operating in secrecy under HB189 blanket confidentiality clause.

This petition is in support of smaller community owned and based wind and solar electrical generation, as opposed to large industrial corporate owned wind and solar electrical generation. If you favor retrofitting existing structures with solar and wind generation rather than altering ridge lines, animal habitat, water systems and more with large industrial solar and wind, this petition is for you.