Concerned about the environmental and impacts of the Simpson Oaks development project in Columbia, MD

Restaurants, bars, clubs, convenience, and grocery stores have no mandatory recycling rule in place and no incentive to start. I want to call on everyone who knows and cares about this huge and very important issue to help make it mandatory for any establishment that sells or uses glass bottles, paper products, cardboard or plastic bottles to recycle them. If there is any interest in something like this, then incentives can be created for these places of business to participate, fines can be established and issued to those who do not comply. Currently, the Capitol City of Wyoming has a very limited recycling program. Recycling is currently NOT mandatory. Yes, you read that right, NOT mandatory. This practice must end now and reasonable incentives need to be put in place to make compliance something that is not resented by targeted business establishments. Our future generations are counting on us to recycle. Otherwise, they will be mining our trash for resources like tin, and aluminum.

The Endangered Species Act is our nation's most effective tool for protecting wildlife from extinction. It has saved some of our most iconic species from disappearing forever. The law works–but it only works if politicians let it. Wisconsin's junior Senator Tammy Baldwin has repeatedly introduced legislation that would do an end run around the Endangered Species Act and ignore scientists and biologists by kicking gray wolves off of the endangered species list. Most recently, she cosponsored an anti-wolf amendment to the Natural Resources Management Act–an important law that will protect public lands and reauthorize important conservation programs. The amendment that she cosponsored would remove Endangered Species Act protections from gray wolves in the Great Lakes. Thankfully that effort failed. But, she has introduced or cosponsored similar legislation or amendments that would delist wolves on multiple previous occasions. Legislatively removing protections from gray wolves puts their continued recovery in real jeopardy. Without these protections, states are free to set hunting and trapping seasons on wolves. We know from past experience that Wisconsin aggressively manages wolves and have every indication that the state would do so again. The damage extends to the Endangered Species Act itself. By allowing politicians to replace scientists in decisions around endangered species protections, Senator Baldwin is giving a green light to future politically-based assaults. Would she support slashing protections for other endangered species that big industry finds inconvenient? If not, she should not be attempting repeated rewrites of the rules for gray wolves. Please add your name to tell Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin to protect wolves and the Endangered Species Act by ending her attempts to legislatively delist our gray wolves.

Poor ventilation within the Stanford Clinical Lab has lead to the accumulation of chemical fumes and dust causing difficulty breathing, and for some, to even feel sick. - Provide a healthier work environment for lab personnel. - Healthier employees can lead to better productivity. - Better productivity for improved patient care.

House Bill 2273 is now in the Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications Committee and will be up for a hearing and vote next Tuesday, February 19. HB 2273 is a bill that adds prohibitive setbacks for wind turbines and is a thinly veiled attempt to stop wind development in Kansas. Please sign this petition saying that you support wind in Kansas and you are asking the committee to vote NO on this bill. Leave a comment if you want them to get your email. It will go to the entire committee!

“Monsanto/Bayer developed Roundup and other Glyphosates that kills weeds....also kills milkweed. (Note: Milkweed is the only plant on which monarch butterflies will lay their eggs). So we have decimated the monarch butterfly population, reduced it over the last two decades by 90 percent.” Bill Nye, The Science Guy. Please email your support for this ban to Lise Reid and come to the meeting of the City Parks Department: Thursday, February 21 at 6 PM, Newburyport Senior Community Center, 331 High Street.

Scientists have proven that climate change is occurring quickly mainly due to human activity. According to some experts, we have only about 12 years before this change is irreversible. I am a senior citizen with no children, so I will probably not be alive to see the truly catastrophic effects of our current policies. However, I have witness the majesty of the Earth and its life forms. I don't want our planet to become uninhabitable to the living things that bring such beauty and meaning to our lives.

Trump just announced he will nominate David Bernhardt, a former high paid oil lobbyist, to run the Department of the Interior. As Secretary, Bernhardt will be responsible for fossil fuel leasing on our public lands and waters and implementing Trump’s plan to gut the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante National Monuments. If confirmed, you can imagine what will happen next -- Bernhardt could use his position to help his Big Oil friends dismantle basic protections like the Endangered Species Act. Instead of draining the swamp, Trump wants to turn our National Parks and wild places over to the swamp monsters. We need your help to fight back! Tell the Senate: Bernhardt is a walking conflict of interest and unfit to be Secretary of the Interior.

As an anthropologist, educator, humanist, and member of The El Dorado County Indian Council, Inc., and a 75-year-old citizen of this country, I have spent my entire adult life involved in teaching students and others the value of protecting Native American rights, culture, and prehistory. Fracking is one of the most destructive means of assault on our environment, and it will surely destroy Chaco Canyon and other National Parks if it is allowed to happen.

This petition is about recognizing the importance of our natural mature forests in providing a way through climate chaos. We must recognize the value of living forests before they fall to greed and it is too late to grow 100 year-old trees in a snap to protect us! The town I live in is about 37 square miles and a large percentage of this is state forest. We also serve as watershed for most of our adjoining towns. Biomass wood pellet companies are currently de-foresting North Carolina to feed European biomass electricity generation. We do not want Massachusetts to allow its forests to be destroyed for temporary corporate profit.

Plastic straws are ruining our waterways and killing wildlife. We want this to change!

Lake Casitas is going dry due to the Casitas municipal water district being hamstrung by restrictions from diverting water from the Ventura river due to steelhead protections. There hasn't been a sighting of one since 2007. 12 years is long enough! Remove the restrictions and allow the lake to fill. The future of the Ojai valley depends on it.