Harmful Algal Blooms (HABS) are nothing new to the many people who enjoy spending time on NYS Lakes. However, of the Finger Lakes, Honeoye Lake has the most severe and longest lasting outbreaks of HABS. In just the last five summers, Honeoye Lake has had 84 CONFIRMED HABS, 14 of those having HIGH TOXINS. That number does not represent all of the blooms that were deemed as suspicious and not tested. We believe the Mechanical Weed Harvester(MWH) is a major cause in the abundance and spread of HABS. Reasons we believe this are: 1) The MWH stirs up sediment and causes wave action resulting in legacy nutrients being dispersed into the water column-especially by the paddle wheels. 2) Due to the Harvester moving so slowly, the heat from the motor raises the surface temperature of the water creating favorable conditions for a bloom to occur. 3) When the weeds are cut, where there was once shade there is now direct sunlight to aid in the growth of algae. 4) The algae that are stuck on the large amount of fragmented weeds left behind by the Harvester are now able to float, spread across the lake and get washed up on shore. This does not even mention the reasons we believe the Harvester also contributes to the toxicity of the blooms. We believe the Harvester is the one cause/variable that we can absolutely control. Please help save Honeoye Lake and stop Mechanical Weed Harvesting!! Thank you.

Seen lawn signs advising of veterans with PTSD? Watched your dog or cat try to hide in a closet or under a bed? Read the statistics about the related injuries to hands/fingers/ears/eyes? Called police about someone blowing up a mortar after midnight? Smelled the 'napalm' in the air? Heard about a fire caused by an inconsiderate 'patriot?' Is there really a need to buy and sell these products every day of the year - except to make money? Sign and let's let our lawmakers know they made a mistake in legalizing fireworks and firecrackers in Michigan. There are alternatives!

With the recent rupture in the recycling industry, and the continuing pollution caused by improperly handled plastics, Summit residents are adamant about reducing our reliance on single-use plastics in favor of more durable, and less wasteful, alternatives. Waste not, want not.

All too often, communities of color and low-income communities end up with dirty power plants or polluting factories as their neighbors. That's not right. Massachusetts needs to pass legislation to ensure no community bears the brunt of environmental pollution. The Commonwealth must treat all its residents equally and fairly, and passing strong environmental justice legislation will help ensure that happens. Demand that your Massachusetts legislators take action to support environmental justice.

As a Florida native who grew up on the southwest coast, I want to protect it and keep this natural beauty for my children and theirs after; not to mention protecting the marine life and the fish we eat.

Western Environmental Law Center is a nonprofit, public-interest environmental law firm. Our expert attorneys are committed to fighting in court to safeguard the climate and transition away from dirty fossil fuels.

The current voluntary Yellow Pages opt-out program is not working, it is merely a publicity stunt. I have opted out from receiving these wasteful books for a few years now, and I KEEP RECEIVING THEM EVERY SINGLE YEAR. The manufacturers keep getting away with it because it is a voluntary program and there are no laws to regulate it. The production of these unnecessary books causes more pollution, wastes natural resources, and wastes public money because municipalities have to deal with recycling them. Lots of them. Most people don't need or use those books, but they continue to be printed and delivered because somebody is making a profit. An opt-in program would prevent excessive books from being printed, and all people who still wanted them would always be able to sign up to continue to receive them. IT'S NOT A BAN on phone books, it is an optimization of resources. Only people who want the books would be receiving them -- it's common sense! I would love to see NJ as the first US State to achieve that. Please let's be environmental leaders again.

Carnival Corporation, the cruise ship giant, is polluting the Arctic -- with devastating impacts on its wildlife and communities. Carnival’s Arctic ships use heavy fuel oil -- a cheap and viscous fuel. As a company that relies on marketing a pristine Arctic, Carnival should be doing everything it can to protect this region -- not destroy it. So we need your help to urge it to clean up its act!

Dirty coal lobbyist Andrew Wheeler is running the EPA now that Scott Pruitt is out. And he wants to pick up exactly where Scott Pruitt left off. We can’t let him. This week our environmental champions in Congress are demanding a vote to keep Wheeler from continuing Pruitt’s toxic agenda. It would freeze all of Pruitt’s most dangerous policies while the 12+ federal investigations into his corruption conclude. But some Republicans want to block the vote. We need your help to stop them!

In the last three years, 50 towns in Connecticut have passed local fracking waste bans. It's time our legislators got on board and passed a statewide ban. People have made it clear that they don't want this toxic waste in their communities. There is no safe way to treat toxic, radioactive fracking waste — and disposing of it here would threaten the health of Connecticut families. While fracking itself isn't happening in Connecticut, incoming waste from other states is a very real danger. It's time our elected officials moved to protect ALL of Connecticut by passing a permanent statewide ban on fracking waste. Tell them to Ban Fracking Waste Now!

After reading National Geographic’s issue about Planet or Plastic, I am striving to find ways to reduce the use of it. While it might be cheap, it is ruining the earth and marine life. Paper packing material also exists and is more environmentally friendly.

To save our beaches and keep the water clean and keep our families healthy!!