Congress should pass the bipartisan Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture (PACT) Act. It will help broaden efforts to prevent animal torture and cruelty! The House bill is called H.R. 724 and will give law enforcement additional tools to stop animal abuse at the federal level because law enforcement will be able to investigate animal cruelty that across state lines (like dog fighting rings) in partnership with local officials. This bill already has 284 co-sponsors in the House and is supported by The Humane Society of the United States. We should work together to support this much needed improvement to animal protection laws in the US.

I'm real passionate about reducing the plastic consumption and waste to help keep Oklahoma beautiful and provide more opportunities for growth and change

Dear Senator, We are writing to formally request that Hawaii State make a Line Item Allocation in the state budget for the eradication of the invasive and deafening Coqui frog, to match the budget allocated annually by Maui County for the eradication of Coqui frogs by Maui Invasive Species Committee. One single Coqui frog chirps at 95 decibels and Noise-Induced Hearing loss starts at 85 decibels. The density of Coqui frog population without its native snake predator has reached 36,000 per acre but could reach a higher density with time. The State of Hawaii owns Maui’s most infested parcel of land in Maliko Gulch where Coqui frogs have been multiplying and carried downstream for years. The density of Coqui’s in Maliko Gulch is causing an overflow of coquis out of the state’s land to all nearby neighborhoods, forcing residents to have to spray their own properties or suffer loss of sleep and for some, noise-induced hearing loss in the form of 24/7 tinnitus or ringing in the ears. The State of Hawaii should take responsibility for the noise-induced hearing loss health hazard caused by Coqui Frogs. This year is the ‘Point of No Return’ in which state legislators will make the decision to either support an eradication budget for Coqui frogs in time, or fail to do so before it is too late, thus condemning future generations of Maui citizens to suffer sleepless nights as well as noise-induced hearing loss. Previous budgets intended to ‘control’ Coqui have been inadequate because Coqui frogs literally hitchhike on cars for 25+ miles, or in recycle refuse or green waste dumped into difficult to reach gulches, etc., and a whole new population for Maui Invasive Species Committee to tackle taking their time away from the state’s Maliko Gulch dense population of coqui frogs. We hope you will choose to save Maui from the fate that has befallen Big Island. Maui Invasive Species Committee confirms that this year’s budget is our last chance before the spread of coquis can no longer be controlled or eradicated like Big Island.

Other countries are not required to have this specific ingredient in their bread, so why should we? It's banned there so why not here? This ingredient is used for yoga mats and shoe soles; this is what we are intaking into our bodies. It is also a possible cause of asthma due to the issues for respiratory causes. The United States has children, youths, adults, and elderly putting this chemical in our carcasses.

Andrew Wheeler is a denier of the scientific consensus on climate change and a lobbyist for the coal industry. Before his appointment as Environmental Protection Agency assistant administrator, he held fundraisers for Wheeler hosted campaign fundraisers for top climate-denying Republican Senators John Barrasso and Jim Inhofe, both members of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works — the committee that voted on his nomination. That same committee is now considering whether to confirm Wheeler to replace corrupt climate denier Scott Pruitt as EPA Administrator. Pruitt left under a smoggy cloud of scandal—we need to prevent the cycle from continuing by stopping Wheeler. Wheeler's lobbying clients have included Murray Energy, the largest privately owned U.S. coal company, as well as Xcel Energy, a giant coal-fired utility group. Before that, he spent 14 years as a staffer for Inhofe. Before joining Trump's EPA, Wheeler spent time in between lobbying for polluters on social media, liking a racist image of former President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama on Facebook and retweeting infamous “Pizzagate” conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec. As acting EPA chief, Wheeler is already rolling back rules on toxic coal ash and mercury pollution. We need to tell our U.S. Senators: stop Wheeler!

This is our Girl Scout Silver Award Project and we have seen many stories about owls and other raptors and wildlife die from eating rats that have been poisoned with rodenticide poison.

issuance of licenses to Chinese vessels. local fishers will need the support of their Government to protect their resources and cancel that contract immediately.

Trump keeps criticizing California's forest management and blames them for wildfires. But forest management is a federal responsibility, and the funds for that keep getting cut. Then the state is forced to use remaining funds to fight the wildfires instead. It's a cycle that feeds on itself and makes it almost impossible for California to do adequate forest management. Now President Trump is threatening to cut FEMA funding, too. California citizens who lost everything in the wildfires are already dealing with unbearable stress. They don't need Trump to add to that by threatening the loss of FEMA funding that pays not just for local infrastructure repair, but for home repair, emergency housing, and groceries. Furthermore, there are reports that Trump could take money from Puerto Rico recovery efforts—after he's spread conspiracy theories to diminish the devastating, fatal impact of hurricanes to the island—to get even more money for a border wall should he declare a national emergency. In places like Puerto Rico, California, North Carolina, Florida, and Texas, people who have already been through unthinkable loss don't need the president of the United States to add to their burdens. He needs to stop abusing his power and American citizens to fuel his ego.

The Trump Shutdown is causing enormous damage to our national parks and the wildlife that call them home. Visitors to some parks have left piles of trash and waste near roadsides, making the parks unsanitary and putting bears, coyotes, and wolves in future peril. The National Park Service has worked for decades to prevent large predators from becoming accustomed to food from people. Park visitors are jeopardizing all of these efforts by causing animals to become habituated to seeking food near roadsides and other places where visitors gather. When the shutdown ends, these animals will continue to seek food near people, potentially leading to conflicts that could result in the killing of wildlife. The National Park Service estimates that there were more than 300 million visits to parks in 2017. Even a fraction of that traffic can cause potentially catastrophic damage. Joshua Tree National Park recently announced it would close all or a portion of the park following vandalism to its namesake tree and other plants and park lands. Point Reyes National Seashore in California was closed for health reasons after human waste accumulated and Yosemite National Park closed some of its most frequented trails, "due to lack of restrooms and resulting impacts from human waste." Former National Park Service Director Jonathan Jarvis cited the great risk in an Op Ed her recently wrote: "Leaving the parks open without these essential staff is equivalent to leaving the Smithsonian museums open without any staff to protect the priceless artefacts." In previous shutdowns, the parks have been closed to protect these iconic, treasured spaces from damage such as that which we are now seeeing. Former Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke decided in one of his final acts as a member of the Trump Administration to leave them open, despite precedent otherwise. Please add your name to tell Acting Secretary of Interior David Bernhardt to immediately close the National Park System to protect wildlife, wild lands, and future visitors. 1. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/08/joshua-tree-park-closed-shutdown-vandalism-latest 2. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/03/national-parks-government-shutdown-trump 3. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/01/01/free-all-national-parks-overrun-garbage-other-bad-behavior/2456757002/

The Green New Deal may be our last chance tackle what is certainly the most important challenge facing humankind, climate change. According to the IPCC report, we have a mere 12 years to cut fossil fuel emissions by a head-spinning 45 percent. We must treat climate change as a crisis situation.

I am the Co-Chair of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Climate Reality Project (former Vice President Al Gore's organization). Along with the 500+ Los Angeles chapter members and the 17,000 CRP trained Climate Leaders worldwide, we are working every day to advance the cause of climate justice for our communities.

If we do not address climate change soon the consequences could be things we have seen in films about the potential lack of living things on the earth. Or the quality of life will be limited. We need to fund this battle because we can't stop it when we are over the edge. The natural elements do not respond to money or power. Humans are powerless next to the forces of nature.