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Arlington Heights: Safe Disposal of Toxic Chemicals***When you sign this petition, you will receive an automatic form email from me***I believe that we need to step up at the local level. This means taking initiative and expanding green practices. The key to environmentally friendly practices is accessibility and the Illinois system for poison recycling is not. It’s illegal to throw away poisons, as it should be, but our government is not giving citizens an easy way to make the right choice. As a result, toxic poisons end up in our landfills and eventually our water supply. Arlington Heights is a member community of the Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County(SWANCC), but this relationship is neither well known or convenient for citizens. If the Arlington Heights government could sponsor an affordable cost-wise collection plan that is accessible, it will prevent poisonous chemicals from seeping into our water supply. Please voice your support for this project and spread the word.35 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Jillian Guittar
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Stop Nestlé from taking our waterWith California facing drought years it doesn't make sense to let Nestlé take our water and sell it back to us at a huge profit. We shouldn't be drinking bottled water anyway. Those plastic bottles pollute.63 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Kris Warrenburg
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Hold Pepsi-Co Accountable for Palm Oil Usage!I have been doing research into the Palm Oil industry as a project for my Anthropology class, Living Primates. Upon conducting research, I found that Pepsi-Co uses the most amount of Palm Oil in the food and beverage industry. Pepsi-Co owns Frito-Lay, and I want to petition the usage of Palm Oil. I propose the use of Sunflower or Coconut Oil, or the development of an industrial-sized air fryer.404 of 500 SignaturesCreated by Ysabeau Carroll
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Cancer Causing Chemicals in everyday products and even food!Ingredients like Acrylamides, BPA, casein, food coloring, etc. need to be prevented from being in our nail polish, shampoo, and food. Americans are being exposed to chemicals known to cause cancer on an everyday basis.22 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Sophie Axelson
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Rain Barrels for Schools and small businessesThe purpose of this petition is to expand the rainwater harvesting law for the purpose of reducing water use at schools and small businesses, thus reducing stormwater and weather runoff at schools and businesses, reducing school site water pollution, and establishing the basis for education in water conservation for our young people.71 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Pamela Churman
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River Development MaconMy city is near an economic crisis level due to no jobs, businesses leaving, brain drain and local residents spending their money elsewhere ... Brain drain, business drain, and money drain.21 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Glen Neil Carey
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Congress: Save Birds From Wind TurbinesI and other people interested in renewable energy are concerned and dismayed by the number of flying creatures being harmed or killed by wind turbines. In order for this form of renewable energy to be truly environmentally sound, we must protect these creatures!3 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Christa Osier
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We demand City Council move Chico to 100% Fossil Free by or before 2040.We the people of Chico have experienced a recent five-year drought, extreme temperature rises, increased intensity of winds and wildfires while many of our state and local representatives are climate deniers. We are making a way for marginalized citizens who will suffer the most from devastating climate crises; youth, ill and disabled, elderly, women, indigenous people and people of color and low-income people. We need to make a fast and just transition to 100% renewable energy by or before 2040. We cannot afford any more climate and science-denying non-representation.21 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Mary Kay Benson
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Recycle Sulphur SpringsThe earth is our island home. Her wealth is great but threatened. Trash is destroying her beauty and resources. Sulphur Springs, Hopkins County, and the northeast corner of Texas can build business and keep our ecosystem healthy.245 of 300 SignaturesCreated by Jeannie Perkins
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Scott Pruitt is corrupt and should be fired immediatelyHere are five reasons Scott Pruitt should be fired immediately. 1- In Pruitt's first year in office, he spent more than $105,000 on first-class flights. 2. Pruitt paid a health care lobbyist, who is married to an energy industry lobbyist, $50 a night—a sweetheart deal in that neighborhood—for access to a condo just a block from the Capitol. He and his daughter stayed there on and off at a cost of more than $6,000, and it was used at times for Republican fundraising events. When authorities had to break down the door after he was mysteriously unresponsive one day, the EPA used taxpayer dollars to cover the $2,460 repair. 3. Pruitt insisted on spending $42,000 taxpayer dollars to build a private phone booth in his office. 4. After being denied approval by the White House, Pruitt's office found a loophole via the Safe Drinking Water Act to give massive, taxpayer-funded salary increases to two of his favorite staffers (from $107,435 to $164,200 and from $86,460 to $114,590). It's part of the same workaround he used to hire chemical industry lobbyist Nancy Beck as deputy head of the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention so she wouldn't need to agree to an ethics agreement. 5. Pruitt is destroying regulations to ensure clean air and water and is leading Trump's call to back out of the Paris Agreement because he's long been tied to special interests. The Washington Pos editorial board said, "A swamp monster is running the EPA." The LA Times called for Pruitt to be fired and said: "He does not belong in public service. He's an embarrassment even to this administration. Which is saying something." The Concord Monitor said: "The embattled administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, who has never had the slightest interest in protecting the environment, has proven that he has as much contempt for ethics rules as he does the settled science of climate change." There's so much more, but these are just some of the reasons Pruitt is a stain on the EPA, drain on taxpayer dollars, bad for the environment, and should be replaced with someone committed to public service.57,041 of 75,000 SignaturesCreated by Piper Perabo
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Ask Walmart To Stop Using Plastic Shopping Bags And Save Our OceansPlastic kills over one million sea birds and one hundred thousand marine animals are killed by plastic pollution every year, and that is just what is found in fishing nets. Divers are finding virtual forests of plastic in the oceans, throughout the world. Shopping bags take ten to one thousand years to decompose, and when they do, they leave toxic sludge in the soil and oceans. The time is now to reduce plastic waste, because there is no tomorrow!5 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Cliff Elliott
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Tell Congress: Hold the EPA accountable for letting Syngenta poison workers with toxic pesticides!In 2016, Syngenta poisoned 19 workers at a research farm in Hawaii. They were exposed to Dow’s nerve gas pesticide chlorpyrifos -- without any protective gear. After the workers were exposed, Syngenta failed to provide adequate decontamination supplies or emergency medical attention. More than 45,000 members of Friends of the Earth like you have called on the EPA to hold Syngenta accountable. But the agency hasn’t responded yet. So now, we need to turn up the heat by pushing Congress to step in.3 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Peter Stocker