The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) fined a West Virginia company, Freedom Industries, only $11,000 for poisoning the drinking water of 300,000 people in January. The spill sickened up to 1 in 5 people, and costed businesses an estimated $61 million.

Your petition will be sent to the Chair and Vice Chair of the Legislative Committee on Energy, which is made up of six state legislators who are working on energy issues before the next legislative session. Your voice shows that there is community support for making energy efficiency a priority. Energy efficiency plays an important role in growing our clean energy economy by bringing our energy infrastructure into the 21st century. Energy efficiency measures such as installing lower wattage light bulbs, adding insulation, and sealing air ducts in buildings will decrease Nevada’s overall energy demand, while reducing our bills and creating jobs here in Nevada. Additionally, new energy efficiency programs using smart technologies empower consumers to take control of their energy on a daily basis - not just a monthly basis. Not only does energy efficiency help decrease our rates, it also decreases our need for new future power plants, saving consumers more money in the future.

I have recently returned from the Occupied Palestinian Territories where I served as an Ecumenical Accompanier, a program sponsored by the World Council of Churches. EAs provide a peaceful presence for the Palestinian people and work with Israeli and Palestinian peace groups in finding ways to engage in non-violent resistance to the Occupation. While I was there, Christians were denied access to the Old City in Jerusalem during Holy Week, Muslim men under age 50 as well as school children were denied access to the Al Aqsa Mosque Compound on a regular basis, a Bedouin farmer's home was demolished by the IDF three times, Abu Omar's home was bulldozed, and 14 families in another Bedouin village received eviction notices. In South Hebron Hills, a farmer's entire wheat harvest was torched, as it lay drying in the field, by Israeli settlers. Daoud, owner of The Tent of Nations Conference Center near Bethlehem, lost 800 fruit trees to settlers. Our tax dollars are paying for these human rights abuses that take place on a daily basis because of the Occupation of the Palestinian Territories. As long as we remain silent, we are complicit in whatever violence takes place on either side. I urge you to sign this petition to help end the Occupation and give the Palestinian people their freedom and Israel the security it longs for. Thank you, Lynn Coulthard

Alarmingly, there have been at least 140 senseless murders of innocent people (mostly minorities) in the city of Inglewood, California. Most of the murderers were never caught and continue to roam freely, bringing to harm others and never paying for their crime. Our loved one, Akeem Leggins, 23, was murdered and was determined to be the 140th victim to die as a result of a senseless shootings in Inglewood. Sadly, it does not seem the Inglewood Police Department is making it a priority to find the individual or individuals who murdered him, a step that is necessary to help bring closure to this awful tragedy for his parents, his only sibling, his young son, family members and friends. We demand that justice be served! Help us to send a strong message to the Mayor of Inglewood and to the City Councilman that we demand justice for our beloved Akeem and for the many other victims of these heinous, unresolved murders in this crime-filled city. Please sign this petition and forward it to your family and friends. Our goal is to obtain at least 1,500 signatures by July 30, 2014 to present to the leadership of the city of Inglewood. Together we can make this happen. Thank you for your support. God Bless You

Late night transit enables more consumers and workers to participate in Utah’s growing economy, dollar for dollar. Buses and trains running a late schedule reduce risk to those who work late night and early morning shifts, preventing them from having to walk for hours down darkened streets and providing them with a small improvement in their quality of life. Low income individuals often work irregular schedules and are the most loyal customers of UTA. Based on that, their demand for late night services should be met. Equally important is how late night transit (directly or indirectly) reduces the number of alcohol related accidents and injuries in the state. In the past year, UTA has seen an increase in ridership and it is time to take the next step in reinvigorating UTA's ridership. While it is up to the discretion of the UTA board how funds are allocated and spent, we believe future revenues should be focused on reestablishing regular late night ridership on a consistent schedule.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the model of what we need in a Supreme Court justice. She was a pioneer of women’s rights as an attorney arguing before the Supreme Court. She was just the second woman confirmed to be a Supreme Court justice. She was the first Supreme Court justice to officiate a gay couple’s wedding. Now, she’s the court’s voice of reason as leader of the court’s liberal wing—speaking truth to power in fiery dissents to decisions by the court’s right-wing majority. In short, Ruth Bader Ginsburg is awesome and we need more of her. Add your name: We need nine Ruth Bader Ginsburgs on the Supreme Court.

To show the world that talent comes from some of the darkest places on Earth and he's hilarious

This petition seeks to draw attention to the fact that Georgia lawmakers continue to promote Confederacy related events and activities with residents' tax dollars. Given the Confederacy sought to preserve/expand slavery, and was built on the notion that White people were superior to all races, it is time to end this racist practice.

There are some people in Congress who are there for decades. It is not a balance of power when you have a limited President but not a limited Congress. People who have been in Congress for several decades usually are there because of lobbyists and not because of the views of their constituents. Their views usually never change, even though the people they represent do. Balance should have the same rules when it is an issue in the Constitution. In the beginning it was a voluntary honor to serve in Congress. Now it is a paid job but at taxpayers' expense. As a tax payer, I would like to see terms and fresh people with fresh minds and ideas, keeping up with the times.

Studies show that consumer (1.4G) fireworks have become safer to use since being regulated by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. More consumer fireworks are being bought and used every year with fewer injuries per pound of product purchased, while Illinois continues to miss out on the taxes from these purchases. By relaxing the consumer fireworks laws in Illinois, residents will once again be able to enjoy using them and the state will realize the financial benefit from sales tax revenue.

[Note: The petition to Hillary was started before she officially declared her candidacy, before she became a grandmother, and before she had a serious challenger - Sen. Bernie Sanders - for the Democratic nomination. The petition language cannot be altered or edited once it has been made public, but the ask remains the same]. Hillary Clinton could be the next Democratic presidential nominee. Do we really want someone in the White House who protects Monsanto's profits at the expense of public health? Scientists, medical professionals and climate experts warn us that a food and agriculture system built around poisons like Monsanto's Roundup and Dow's 2,4-D, a system that promotes soy and corn monocultures instead of crop diversity, is unhealthy for humans and the environment. In fact, the World Health Organization in March (2015) declared Roundup a probable human carcinogen. Genetically engineered agriculture has failed. It has created superweeds that require increasingly toxic poisons, and those poisons are showing up in the blood, urine and breast milk of humans. The United Nations last year issued a report entitled "Before It's Too Late," stating that not only will genetically engineered crops not feed the world, as the biotech industry claims, but they are a huge contributor to global warming. Polls show that 93% of Americans want GMO labeling laws. It's time for Hillary, whose ties to the biotech industry run deep, to support public health, not Monsanto. The next leader of the U.S. needs to take a stand against huge corporations that are devastating the environment and human health. If Hillary Clinton is not that leader, consumers will look to candidates like Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who has a proven track record of supporting states' rights to label GMOs, and the transition to organic, sustainable, regenerative agriculture.

Society's future is surely slipping out of the horizon of a brighter future on a lot of self inflicted decisions..but keeping the Cottonwood Treatment Facility open is a HUGE necessity..even a police officer here in Cape Girardeau said, Cape P.D. used to only handled MAYBE 1-2 mentally disturbed people a month, now it's 1-2 a day! It's unbelievable..I have a son with a diagnosis of moderate ADHD, & ODD, our children of course are the/our future!!.. How can a great treatment facility like Cottonwood, where some employees have been there for two or more decades and SO many youths have benefited, just be called a budget cut???