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.

The effects of climate change are obvious at this point and is a nightmare come to life. A major contributor to the devastation we are currently seeing is from the fossil fuel emitions being released by about 1.2 BILLION gas powered vehicles throughout the world. The U.S. alone has about 253 MILLION gas powered vehicles contributing to the widespread damage to our environment. We must act immediately to save our world for future generations to come. We must join the rest of the major countries of the world by taking similar action.

I am a climate activist in NH. Climate change is destroying lives, health, communities and economies and may end humanity in our grandchildren's lives. We have waited too long to do something about it already and, according to recent scientific reports and statements, are fast running out of time. Responsible corporations, like citizens, must become louder and more demanding of immediate, responsive action, and what better corporation is there to lead the charge than a giant like Amazon?

We were excited by the Mayor's interest in solarizing the Airport when we talked about it earlier this year. It's an important opportunity. We were dismayed to see that the Master Plan does not include solarization. We kindly request that solarization be added to the proposed capital improvements outlined in the plan.

H.R. 3668, The Sportsmen’s Heritage and Recreational Enhancement Act (SHARE Act), would: Delist gray wolves in the Great Lakes, paving the way for hunting and trapping seasons and prevent the courts from reviewing the action or the FWS from ever relisting these wolves; Subject endangered species around the country to increased risk of gruesome death caused by trapping; And prohibit any regulation of toxic lead ammunition or fishing equipment that is responsible for the poisoning death of millions of birds and animals annually–including the bald eagles shown in the photo above. This bill is a repeat of legislation that has failed repeatedly and Congress should once again refuse this attack on wildlife and wild places. Please sign the petition to Congress asking that they oppose this bill.

When a Whole Foods Market opened in our town, I was appalled to see how many products were wrapped in unrecyclable forms of plastic. Many municipalities only take #1 and #2 plastics for their recycling programs. The rest end up in a landfill, river, or ocean. I am alarmed at the reported pervasiveness of plastics already polluting our ecosystems, and don't want to contribute to this lethal problem by buying plastic along with my organic food, but of course I have to eat. The plastic already in oceans and rivers is affecting the quality and quantity of food fish. Water for organic growing without harmful chemicals from the breakdown of plastics in the environment will be increasingly hard to find. Current practices are unsustainable. What will we eat when every food becomes toxic?

The Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest covers more than 1.5 million acres of Wisconsin's pristine, iconic Northwoods. Every year, bear hounders converge on these and other woodland areas, turning their packs of dogs loose to pursue and terrorize native wildlife. These packs of pursuing off-leash dogs threaten the life of wolf pups and adult wolves and virtually every land animal in their path. These public lands are rendered inhospitable for weeks every year during bear hounding season. Please ask the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest to prohibit "hounding" on these National Forest Service lands.