I want to put solar panels on my roof in Wichita but Westar would be allowed to charge me an unfair higher rate than everyone else. This new bill will prevent all electric companies from punishing people like me!

A nationwide delisting cannot be based on scientific review as claimed by the USFWS because this delisting rule will automatically deny the wolves the right to migrate to habitat which they once occupied. Also, wolves only occupy only around 5% of their original habitat, they are not recovered in the sense that they are nonexistent outside of the great lake states. This proposed delisting states that it will be up to the individual states to manage wolves. In states like South Dakota wolves are already considered varmints and if delisted can be shot on site without a permit or quotas. Many other states have already stated that they do not want wolves in their states ---Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Colorado. States that at one time had wolves but were exterminated from their states when the U.S. government sponsored a bounty program on wolves in the late 1800s and early 1900s and came very close to exterminating the wolves in the lower 48 states. If this delisting proposal succeeds in becoming a reality we will once again no doubt see the wolves existence in this country come to an end, just like before. This is an urgent petition ---many signatures are needed because the USFWS has drawn up the delisting proposal but has not been submitted to the National Register yet.

Hunting, trapping, and habitat loss drove gray wolves to near extinction in the twentieth century. Conservation efforts made possible by the Endangered Species Act has allowed them to come back and begin to re-establish their former habitats. But, the Trump Administration has announced a proposed rule that would strip every gray wolf in the lower 48 states of crucial Endangered Species Act protections. Wolves have only begun to recover in many parts of the country–and they are completely absent in others. The successful recovery of gray wolves in the Northern Rockies was only possible because of the strong protections of the Endangered Species Act. The Trump Administration's plan would jeopardize any future recovery by allowing states to manage gray wolves as game species. This would be a death sentence for many wolves. Wolves currently protected under the Endangered Species Act would likely face aggressive hunting and trapping immediately. Add your name to stand against the Trump Administration's plan to take Endangered Species Act safeguards away from gray wolves and to support continued efforts to bring wolves back.

Whales are intelligent, gentle giants that have been on this planet for millions of years - they absolutely must be protected! The Human Race CANNOT continue its reckless onslaught against marine wildlife. Our oceans are polluted as is our air, our Earth been ravaged by resource extraction and due to climate change our very future is at stake. NOW is the time to call on Japan to STOP this INHUMANE and UNNECESSARY decision to return to senseless hunting and killing of our WHALES!! PLEASE TAKE ACTION in the House and the Senate to let Japan know THEY CANNOT GET AWAY WITH THIS!! Tell President Trump to give Japan an Ultimatum - THEY MUST NOT RESUME COMMERCIAL WHALING or they will suffer devastating economic consequences courtesy of the United States of America, protector of Whales worldwide!!

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.