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.

The trump organization has no care as to what they destroy to make way for a border wall. No land, homes to endangered species, should be threatened. trump has shown he has no care for endangered species, wildlife, or Americas National Parks. Please sign this petition to let them know we will not tolerate this blatant disregard for our environment.

We only have until 2030 to slow down global warming, and the US needs to do its part.

Closure of the GM Lordstown Assembly Plant would be a disaster for thousands of working families and scores of communities in NE Ohio. The most viable option to prevent plant closure is to echo the call by GM for a zero-emission future through mass production of long-range all-electric vehicles and call for the allocation of the cars of the future at Lordstown.

We need legislation that adheres to science and facts and which enables us to use all possible technological means to combat climate change. We should not allow energy policies having ulterior motives (and fossil fuel bedfellows) to derail united efforts to prevent the worst impacts of climate change. Renewables (because they are intermittent) are increasingly forcing utilities to build natural gas capacity . . . defeating progress reducing emissions. Only 100% Clean Energy standards force utilities to drive down emissions. This means they must pair renewables with other types of clean energy, including hydro, geothermal and clean nuclear power. Let's shut down the RPS backdoor, that has allowed natural gas and fossil fuels to thrive at our climate's expense.

The federal government continues to deny the reality of climate change and refuses to take immediate action to protect the future of humanity. A recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change states that emissions must peak by 2020 to limit global warming to 1.5C and then steadily drop. According to the Global Carbon Project, U.S. emissions rose in 2018. Our government is not doing enough to protect us.

Chaco Canyon is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a sacred ancestral place for the Hopi, Navajo, and Pueblo people. Oil and gas development threatens the area’s rich cultural resources, treasured landscapes, and living native communities while ignoring federal law. Over 91% of Greater Chaco is already leased for oil and gas drilling, and after record-breaking protest comments in March 2018, Interior Secretary Zinke deferred the lease sale of over 4,000 acres of land in Greater Chaco, calling for more cultural study and consultation. But no additional study or consultation occurred. Although BLM quietly deferred parcels within the Farmington Field Office, the agency proceeded with the sale of 30 parcels and 41,000 acres of lands within the Rio Puerco Field Office, still within Greater Chaco and home to living Navajo communities and innumerable culturally sacred sites. The Western Environmental Law Center is a nonprofit, public-interest environmental law firm and our expert attorneys are committed to fighting in court to save Greater Chaco and its people from oil and gas exploitation and to transition away from dirty fossil fuels. Please help us take a stand.

Global warming and climate change are happening. Many different factors contribute to this, but there is one factor that can potentially decrease the rate at which climate change is happening. Only 34% of Americans recycle; all of the other waste gets dumped into landfills. Plastic is a recyclable material, but it far too often ends up in landfills. Plastic contains toxic chemicals which seep into the groundwater under landfills. Plastic also kills marine life. Recycling needs to be made mandatory so issues like this do not persist.

I am a Sierra Club member and have taught in schools over the last 30 years that global warming is coming and it is here.

I am an avid animal rights activist, and the assaults against animals and wildlife are getting more severe and abusive!