There are cases across the United States of chemicals used by the natural gas industry during fracking being found in drinking water sources. Many of the chemicals the industry uses are highly toxic and exposure is linked to illnesses including cancer, kidney failure, and fertility problems. During the Bush Administration, fracking was exempted from regulation under the Safe Drinking Water Act, making the chemicals used proprietary information. The public has a right to know all the chemicals used in fracking fluids. The Federal government needs to play a greater role in protecting our health, safety, and environment. The EPA wants to develop a federal chemical disclosure policy under the Toxic Substance and Control Act and is currently seeking comment to help shape this policy. It is important that they conduct public hearings in impacted states during this process so they can hear directly from the public.

I was taking Bactrim DS in March of 2003 for a urinary tract infection. I was told when taking an antibiotic you have to complete its course. After taking the med for 3 or 4 days I had begun to think I was feeling better. But little did I know I was getting worse day by day. On day four or five I went to work. I was working as a dietary aide at Epworth Villa. I was fatigued and very lethargic. The nurses there checked my temperature and it was 104 degrees. I was taken immediately to my primary care physician. I was told to go directly to Edmond Medical Center E.R. for evaluation and treatment. As I was admitted to the hospital and asked thousands of questions; my skin began blistering literally within minutes of being there. I began to have blisters on my face, neck, back, arms and chest. Once the blisters appeared, my skin began to darken. I looked exactly like burn patients who have been in a house fire. I stayed in Edmond Medical Center for a day or two. Many tests were run. Different specialists were contacted to see if anyone had an explanation on what was happening. It seemed like an eternity that I was laid up burning from the inside out. Doctors soon learned that I had a rare disease known as The Stevens Johnson Syndrome. It is a major allergic reaction to sulfa. It literally burned me from the inside out. At some point I was transferred to Baptist Burn Unit. I was treated exactly like a burn patient. The blisters that had formed all over my body could not be seen now, due to my skin turning black. I was “classified” with third degree burns over 50% of my body. Slowly my skin started to slough or just fall off. I remember my bath days which were agonizing, dreadful and most of all painful. It felt like I was getting bathed with a cheese shredder. Each wipe with the sponge hurt more than the first. I can remember yelling and screaming for dear life during baths like it was yesterday. My skin was burned; gone. After each bath I was wrapped like a mummy in silvadene and rolls of kerlix in order to keep infection down. At this time my eyes were sealed closed. There was a decrease in my mucous membrane production. I couldn’t see for over three weeks. My eyes were sealed closed. Could you imagine being 19 and blind? Many people take their eyesight for granted. What I’ve learned is that a person’s perceptions of how things are in life are totally different when you can’t see. As a result of the decrease in tear production, I had dry eyes and a damaged cornea. I have used eye drops at least twenty times a day, otherwise my eyes will feel like sandpaper. I feel some discomfort in my eyes at all times. I also blink like twenty times more than the average person. I can’t go to the movies or focus on things for a long time either. I often experience blurry vision and pain in my left eye. Due to the blisters and burns in my mouth I couldn’t eat or swallow. I had to have a peg tube placed in order to obtain adequate nutrition. At the age of 19 having a peg tube was “not cool.” For three months the peg tube was my main source for food and water. I had it removed on my twentieth birthday. The Stevens Johnson Syndrome is not a rare disease. Many people do die from this. Doctors informed my mother to prepare for the worse, which is a patient’s worst nightmare. Through the grace of God I’m here to tell my story. My purpose of writing this letter to Governor Mary Fallin is to send awareness about SJS/TEN. I would like to declare August as SJS awareness month. Please take the time to consider. SJS Survivor

Having scoliosis myself, I would have been more comfortable and accepting of my condition as a young girl had I had a doll with an accessory similar to my back brace. The American Girl Dolls serve to bring security, play, and happiness to girls. American Girl will continue to alienate the 10 percent of girls in the United States suffering from scoliosis until a back brace accessory is manufactured for the dolls.

As New York City public school students, we applaud Comptroller Stringer and Mayor de Blasio for recognizing the power of arts education to improve academic outcomes, especially for young people who live and go to school in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Upper Manhattan. As leaders in our community, youth in arts education, future voters and future members of the city’s workforce, we urge the de Blasio administration, Comptroller Stringer, Carmen Fariña, the City Council and other city leaders to create a youth board to ensure the $20 million arts education funds are distributed to the schools and programs in communities that need and demand arts education. As youth leaders, we want to ensure our city leaders make good on the promise and ensure that all New York City public school students receive the comprehensive and state-mandated arts education they deserve regardless of who they are, or where they live.

As a long time California taxpayer, I am appalled at the high number of foreign students and out of state students are accepted by UC SD, UCBerkely, UCI, UCD, etc, compared to the low number of qualified California applicants accepted. Hghly qualified children of friends, colleagues and my extended family, all long time California taxpayers have been rejected from these schools at great numbers. This is unfair.

No corporation should be allowed to make laws as they would be biased for their present or former companies .

Please urge Palm Springs City Council to stop the Mega-Tower project at Vista Del Monte School in Palm Springs.

I am a member of Military Families Speak Out. Our goal has to bring our family members home & the have them taken care of once they get home. The war in Afghanistan has been going on longer than any other in American history & our troops have been continually recycled through the war zones on repeated deployments. It is time for Pres. Obama to keep his PROMISE to bring these honorable Americans home NOW.

Because of their overwhelming wish to bring this President down, they have lied to their constituency and helped to keep thousands from getting medicaid expansion and/or insurance while they, of course, personally have the best. These are not "leaders" in any sense of the word.

I am starting this petition because the conduct that TKJ presents himself with is unbearable. I believe that The GM™ Should not have to go through the pain that we deal with day in, day out. While signing this petition you provide the approval for TKJ to get an immediate boot.

If the propery is rezoned it will 1. Is not compatible with our community of mostly owner-occupied, single family residential; 2. Deteriorates our quality of life within Walden Lake of open space, lakes, scenic views and vistas; 3. Destroys the property values, current scenic views of 168 single family residential homes; 4. Increases significantly, traffic and congestion onto Timberlane Drive, Griffin Boulevard and Clubhouse Drive; 5. Destroys the quality of life, scenic views, vistas and property values of more than 200 homes on the back nine of the currently abandoned, overgrown and unkept Hills golf course; 6. Substantially reduces the pervious, open space surfaces to developed impervious surfaces, increasing storm water runoff and drainage; and 7. Utilizes our green, pristine, premier community and rights-of-way that we have funded and maintained for more than 30 years for their development efforts — with no guaranteed return on our investments. 8. Will displace the habitats of numerous Florida wildlife

I live in Greeley Colorado. We had an earthquake last night (5/31/2014). I don't want to end up like the Oklahoma City area with a cluster of these quakes because the oil and gas companies are too lazy to clean up their polluted water and just inject it into deep wells.