The Trump administration has done everything it can to ignore climate change and promote a dangerous expansion of fossil fuel production. Governors are stepping up to take the kind of leadership on climate change missing in Washington. Governors Cuomo, Inslee, and Brown launched the U.S. Climate Alliance when Trump pulled the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Agreement. Fifteen governors have signed on. Governor Wolf is not among them. As COP 23 convenes in Germany, it's time for Governor Wolf to join with his colleagues and add Pennsylvania to the U.S. Climate Alliance. Read more about the U.S. Climate Alliance here: https://www.usclimatealliance.org/

NASA performs critical climate science research -- its satellites track hurricanes like Maria, Harvey, and Irma, and the wildfires in California -- and the pollution fueling these disasters. Yet, Trump has nominated Jim Bridenstine, a member of Congress from Oklahoma - not a scientist - to run NASA. But Bridenstine is a climate denier. In 2013 he demanded that President Obama apologize for spending NASA money on global warming. Furthermore, Bridenstine seeks to privatize space exploration, selling off NASA's critical role to for-profit corporations. NASA needs to be kept out of politics. Florida's two senators, Bill Nelson and Marco Rubio, have already voiced concern about Bridenstine's political baggage. And, equally important, NASA needs to be run by someone who respects science. Not climate denier Jim Bridenstine.

It's troubling to see a proposal from the National Park Service that would make these beautiful places less accessible to average Americans. Raising the price to as much as $30 per individual and $70 per vehicle for the most popular parks would deprive so many people of life-changing experiences and an appreciation for the natural world. The parks are for everyone, regardless of income! I remember a trip to Sequoia National Park, high in California's mountains. It was winter, and the snow was taller than our car. We set out one morning as the sun rose. The only sound was the clop of our snowshoes as they broke through the thin layer of ice that had formed on the powder overnight. When we paused, we smelled only sweet evergreens and heard only the off-and-on work of a woodpecker echoing through the groves of giant trees that towered above us. The sequoias have been kings of that land for centuries, and visiting them was like stepping into a royal court. We felt honored to be there. Everyone should have the opportunity to experience places like that. We need to protect America's wilderness, but increasing park entrance fees is not the way to do it. Please sign this petition to weigh in on the request for comments - listed as: National Park Service Proposes Targeted Fee Increases at Parks to Address Maintenance Backlog (ID: 75576) / Document: Fact Sheet and Current and Proposed Fee Rates (ID: 83652). I will make sure your petition signatures are delivered by the November 23 deadline and will follow up with additional ways you can ensure your voice is heard!

The largest proposed oil-by-rail export terminal in North America is proposed for the Port of Vancouver, WA and it's a disaster for Washington State and the climate. Big Oil is trying to force their project through by paying for Kris Greene's election -- they have contributed $370,000, which is 90% of all the money that he has raised. And his former campaign manager recently admitted that “Big Oil is completely dictating where every penny is going." With Big Oil pumping hundreds of thousands of dollars into this race, we know the only way to stop this affront to our democracy, communities, and environment, is by organizing thousands of ordinary people to fight back.

Stop the destruction of Bristol Bay in Alaska and Scott Pruitt from risking one of the worlds most important salmon fisheries that provides food and jobs for so many for the short sited, small monetary gains of so few individuals.

Today, the Trump Administration made a catastrophic step backward and announced it is repealing our country’s largest effort to stop climate change—the Clean Power Plan. This plan is the country’s first-ever federal carbon pollution limits for our nation’s electric power plants. By repealing the CPP, we are starting over. We don’t have the time. We can’t slow down. We’re in a race against disaster. Instead we need to strengthen the current Clean Power Plan and recognize that the climate science is correct—anything less would be a step back. Pruitt’s action to begin the process of repealing the Clean Power Plan is unacceptable. We need this vital, commonsense safeguard that will greatly reduce the United States’ largest source of carbon emissions. Tell the EPA to enforce the Clean Power Plan and defend our communities’ right to clean energy and a healthy future. Pruitt’s announcement cements his guiding environmental principle: Prop up the dying fossil fuel industry at any cost. This industry poisons the air and water of our most vulnerable communities while we watch the immediate impacts of climate change in real time. Our ocean is turning into a pressure cooker for hurricanes such as Harvey, Irma and Maria, which collectively have killed hundreds of people and displaced thousands. We don’t have time to sit this fight out until the political winds shift in our favor. We need to tackle our climate crisis now. Demand that the Clean Power Plan remain in place—and tell the EPA to double down on our commitment to a clean energy future.

It's time to move away from fossil fuels and toward an economy powered entirely by clean energy - for jobs, for our health, and for our future. The climate crisis grows starker every day as fossil-fueled hurricanes, droughts, and wildfires devastate our country. These bold bills will transition the United States to a better world.

Officials in Philadelphia have announced plans to use 100% renewable energy to power city properties by 2030, along with goals to cut greenhouse gas emissions from buildings and reduce energy use from the built environment. The Municipal Energy Master Plan is an initiative to help Philadelphia meet the goals of the Paris Climate Accord, an agreement within the UN framework to combat greenhouse gas emissions. Located in Philadelphia, Drexel University (DU) is a private institution that is in a unique position to demonstrate this new found commitment to a clean city. The fleet is relativley small and the postive impacts are huge! If it chooses to act as a climate leader DU will become the first institution in the Philadelphia area to operate an entirely electric bus fleet. #CleanAirCantWait #PointofPride

Petition Background Starting this petition because the fossil fuel industry cannot be trusted. They have a history of buying influence and candidate loyalty. The fossil fuel industry has a reputation for investing money in candidates who will return the favor from a position of power as Lawmakers, Chief Executives and Financial Officers. We cannot trust a candidate that takes money from an industry that is a corruption of all of our inherent and intrinsic values that are grounded in community and family--an industry that has no regard for clean air and water or a governing body we can trust. Taking the pledge means that a candidate’s campaign will adopt a policy to not knowingly accept any direct contributions from companies associated with PACs, trade associations or executives whose primary business is the extraction, processing, distribution, or sale of oil, gas, or coal. The Western States Petroleum Association is a “non-profit trade association” that represents companies that account for the bulk of petroleum exploration, production, refining, transportation and marketing in the five western states of California, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, and Nevada. The Western States Petroleum Association (WSPA) is the largest and most powerful corporate lobbying group in the West and California. The Western States Petroleum Association led the oil industry lobbying expenses with $49,491,104 followed by Chevron with $24,035,901 and Phillips 66 with $4,821,144. WSPA’s membership includes a who’s who oil, energy and pipeline corporations including Aera Energy LLC, Chevron, Californian Resources Corporation (formerly Occidental Petroleum), ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, Noble Energy, Inc., Phillips 66, Plains All American, Inc. Shell Oil Products US, Tesoro Refining and Marketing and Valero. I would have a great deal of confidence and trust in any candidate that can sign this pledge.

A new White Mountain National Park would: 1) Protect our celebrated White Mountains from the degradation of Northern Pass. 2) Strengthen, diversify, stabilize, and boost the local economies. Reports confirm that economies around national parks are stronger than those that rely on boom and bust resource extraction. 3) Provides the flexibility to accommodate the current usages (e.g. all the current recreational activities) of the White Mountain National Forest through appropriate zoning. In other words, nothing is lost, and everything is gained. 4) Preserve vast standing forests which would absorb and store large amounts of carbon to help fight what is becoming undeniable climate change. 5) Provide habitat for wildlife that require large undisturbed expanses of forest and waters, which are increasingly rare in New England. 6) Recognize, at long last, the historic role that the Weeks Act and White Mountain National Forest has played in laying the groundwork for our National Park System. This groundwork has inspired the creation of national parks in over 100 nations beyond our shores. See more here: http://www.concordium.us/stewardship/

I have never done an online petition. But flood conditions in Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands are becoming an humanitarian crisis. Did you know that the 3.8 million people of Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands are American Citizens too? As we support flood survivors in Texas and Florida, human decency requires that we also support US Citizens in the Caribbean too. These territories have given so much to develop our country. They and all people deserve a chance to live. The richest country in the world can do much more to help. Please sign this petition to insist that our country provides help to all American flood victims--not just those living on the mainland.

My friend Scott Cannon is a videographer and pipeline fighter. He just contacted me to tell me the outrageous story of a dentist in Dallas, PA whose property Williams took by eminent domain to build its unnecessary Atlantic Sunrise pipeline. On the condemned portion of the property sits a 100-year old barn. Williams plans to destroy it. We all know pipeline companies have no respect for private property, but stories like this remind us that they have no respect for history either. If he can’t have his barn, then the landowner would like to donate the wood to a local nonprofit farm called Hillside Farms so that it can have a second life repairing buildings on that property. But, thanks to eminent domain, Williams technically owns the barn and won’t allow it. Scott has made a video about this outrageous situation. Here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvhn-NwIci8&feature=youtu.be Please sign my petition we’ll deliver to FERC and Williams to tell them to donate the wood to Hillside Farms for much-needed repairs.