The Dover Amendment in Massachusetts as it stands today allows non-profit institutions to circumvent local natural resource zoning and wetland bylaw restrictions. We support Amendment H.1765 that will change the Dover Amendment so that future real estate and construction projects must adhere to these local zoning bylaws and protections. We urge the Members of the Joint Committee of Municipalities and Regional Government to move this important Amendment for a vote.

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Recent data from longitudinal studies on capped fracking wells, and data from the Environmental Protection Agency show clearly that California is dangerously lacking in adequate short- and long-term management of these wells. The management cost to tax payers runs into the millions of dollars annually, and the oil and gas companies that drill the wells are not required to pay for any of it. There is no doubt that these wells are leaking potentially lethal chemicals into California's groundwater. Fracking must be stopped before the entire groundwater system in California is destroyed.

New research has shown that congestion has increased in large cities where Lyft and other ride-hailing services operate. At the same time, ride-hailing has simultaneously reduced transit ridership in nine major U.S. cities, including the three biggest. Both Lyft and Uber have run ads telling people to get out of public transit and into cars, and Uber even admits in its recent IPO filing that it views public transit as a competitor. Add your name here! Together we can put the pressure on Uber and Lyft to become true leaders of change in the fight against climate change and pollution.

To keep the earth clean.

Sunset Park has the largest, working-class industrial waterfront in Brooklyn, but Industry City wants to turn it into a playground for the rich. Industry City wants to change current zoning to build large chain retail stores and luxury hotels, which may lead to luxury housing. We must protect long-time residents, workers, and small, locally-owned businesses from rising rents and displacement. This is our neighborhood. We should be deciding the future of our waterfront and neighborhood, not private developers like Industry City. Sunset Park tiene la costa de agua industrial más grande. La comunidad de Sunset Park cuenta con una población de personas mayormente de clase obrera y bajo ingreso en Brooklyn. Descaradamente los patrones de Industry City quieren destruir nuestra comunidad, y convertirlo en un patio de recreo para los ricos. Mediante el mecanismo de rezonificación ellos desean cambiar la zonificación actual para construir grandes cadenas de tiendas minoristas y hoteles de lujo, lo que puede llevar a viviendas de lujo. Debemos proteger a los residentes, trabajadores y pequeñas empresas de propiedad local desde hace mucho tiempo del aumento de alquileres y desplazamientos. Este es nuestro barrio. Deberíamos decidir el futuro de nuestra línea de costa y vecindario, no de desarrolladores privados como Industry City. Protect Sunset Park is a coalition of individuals and organizations representing residents, workers, students and small businesses. We are independent from outside groups. Join us and stay informed. Contact us: [email protected] --- Proteja a Sunset Park es una coalición de individuos y organizaciones que representan a residentes, trabajadores, estudiantes y pequeñas empresas. Somos independientes de grupos externos. Únete a nosotros y mantente informado. Contacte a nosotros: [email protected]

The residents of Ann Arbor and surrounding cities, county and townships are tired of watching the contamination spread for 35 years closer towards our cities drinking water intake and homes with wells. The MDEQ and the polluter are not containing or controlling the spread, and they have slowed down remediation. The polluter is a multi-billion dollar company, Danaher (who bought Pall, who bought Gelman), who needs to be enforced by EPA to clean this up once and for all.

To stop the proposed 60 turbines to be located on Bear River and Monument Ridges and also the operating facilities and concrete plants to be sited in Pepperwood, California. Here is a link to the documentary WindFall https://www.wind-watch.org/video-windfall.php

This initiative should activate bipartisan support both in Congress and in all 50 states. As the lawsuit Juliana Vs United States is on the cusp of its opening trial, in June 2019, all efforts should be moving forward to provide a livable planet for the 21 plaintiffs, age 11 through 22, and their generation. See https://www.ourchildrenstrust.org for details on this lawsuit that provides a legal underpinning for the green new deal. Leading U.S. climate scientist James Hansen calls for this action as well. It provides a unifying effort worldwide, to draw down carbon out of the atmosphere, putting it back where it belongs - back in the ground. This action would begin the necessary action to begin cooling our stressed planet, and all stressed living forms on it. Clearly, action is still necessary to ensure fossil fuel (including pesticides) does not continue to add to the dangerous levels already in the atmosphere, which have now hit 413 parts per million of atmospheric carbon. World climate scientists agree that getting back to 350 parts per million of atmospheric carbon would stabilize our planet (where we were in 1990), ensuring it is a livable one. U.S. leaders: We need your boldness now on this urgent issue. UPDATE: Oct 7, 2019 was declared HALF EARTH DAY 2019, by the E.O. Wilson Foundation, which is acting on similar efforts that the UN initiative is challenging world governments to act on. Here is the website to see more details of this HALF EARTH effort - https://half-earthproject.org

The Trump administration recently announced its plan to remove federal Endangered Species Act protections from gray wolves in the lower-48 states. This is a decision based purely on politics – not science. While wolves may be rebounding in the Great Lakes Region, they are not recovered in the Pacific Northwest, and they remain absent from the southern Rocky Mountains. Removing protections nationwide from wolves will cause irreparable harm to the slowly recovering populations in Oregon, Washington, and California; and will effectively prevent the eventual recovery of the species in states like Colorado and Utah. The Western Environmental Law Center is a nonprofit, public-interest environmental law firm and our expert attorneys will use the full power of the law to retain the protections gray wolves need to recover across the American West.

I work from home teaching online and creating online teaching materials for writing skills. It has become impossible to concentrate on any given day of the week as leaf blowers are used every day at all hours of the day! I have also ceased to hear birds for much of the day and started to hear neighbors' dogs barking during the day when leaf blowers run amok.

We are a family oyster farm in New York. After seeing the extent of oyster mortality from the Os-HV1 virus in Europe, we are asking for more research into the susceptibility of the native Eastern Oyster to this now pandemic virus.