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.

In order to be punished in the state of Florida, you must dump 15 pounds of trash and all you will receive is a 100 dollar fine. We propose that any amount of trash is worth being pegged as a higher offense.

CalSTRS, the $220-billion retirement system for California public school teachers, invests almost $7 billion in the polluting oil and gas industries. This includes investing $750 million in Exxon, a company that plans to triple its oil production in the next 10 years and funds campaigns to deny the science of climate change. CalPERS—whose members work in California’s public sector on the state, county, and municipal levels—is the largest public pension fund in the United States. In fact, globally CalPERS ranks 7th in the world, larger than many national pension funds. It’s big, with a $347 billion investment portfolio, and when CalPERS moves, other investors follow. The most recent figures suggest CalPERS has an estimated $7 billion invested in fossil fuels. According to the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA), the oil and gas sector last year placed “dead last” in the Standard & Poor’s 500, an index of 500 of the largest US publicly traded companies. Last year’s dismal performance follows a ten-year downward trend for the fossil fuel industry. In fact, for the last seven years, some funds without fossil fuel investments have outperformed those with fossil fuels. The writing is on the wall—if we continue to invest in the fossil fuel industry, we jeopardize our finances and, most importantly, our survival. Carbon Tracker, an independent financial think tank that analyzes the impact of energy transition on capital markets, warns investors of being stuck with “stranded assets” –worthless or near worthless financial holdings –as industrial economies transition to renewables and less developed countries leapfrog fossil fuels to embrace solar and wind. California lawmakers recognize the need to get off fossil fuels. Under the rules set forth by the California Public Utilities Commission and the mandates of SB100, the State must source 100% of its electricity from renewables by 2045. Exxon, with less than 1% of its business in renewables, will presumably fail to meet the State of California’s 33% benchmark for 2020. BP, Shell, Chevron, Conoco-Phillips and the other oil and gas giants—all with less than 3% invested in renewables—are also failing to transition. Investment managers and policymakers may argue it is more productive to engage than to disengage –to stay invested in the fossil fuel industry in the hopes of influencing it, but there is no evidence yet of a company abandoning its core business, e.g., extracting, producing and distributing fossil fuels, based on shareholder engagement. And there is precedent for divestment. Over $6 trillion in funds have already been divested from fossil fuels. A few of the largest divesting entities include: the trillion-dollar Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund; Rockefeller Brothers Fund; World Council of Churches; AXA, a French multinational insurance firm; the City of New York; the City of London; and Ireland. In the face of global climate chaos—wildfires, drought, famine, floods, mass migration—the UN Secretary-General has issued a call to all pension funds to divest from the fossil fuel industry. It is time for CalSTRS and CalPERS to divest from fossil fuels. This petition was created by Marcy Winograd, Jane Vosburg, Deborah Silvey, Sandy Emerson, and Cynthia Kaufman—retired public school teachers and/or members of Fossil Free California (Fossilfreeca.org).

I'm starting this petition because it isn't right to eat dogs. In my opinion, dogs should be pets; they do nothing but show love.

After the ITC storage plant fire, the areas around the fire were affected by water and air pollution. This disaster could have been prevented by having stricter regulations on the building methods and design of the storage tanks used. Many of these plants are located all around Houston and frequently catch fire or spill contents into the environment. These chemicals leak into the water systems and can end up in the oceans, affecting a wide range of species and ecosystems.

Proposed land-use changes are inconsistent with the preservation of natural resources.