This petition is my way of fighting for my 2-year-old son's quality of life (he has reactive airway disease thanks to living in Portland) — and for the lives of every Oregonian suffering from health issues caused by preventable air pollution. The fact is, our air may look clean, but it isn't. And after our state lawmakers failed to act to reduce air pollution during the 2017 legislative session, the only chance we've got is to hold our Governor accountable for the Cleaner Air Oregon process. Industry has killed every other attempt we've made to add teeth to our state's air regulations. But I'm not giving up and I hope you won't, either!

We now have a paper trail of Donald Trump’s son soliciting a contribution -- in this case, opposition research to influence the presidential election -- from a Russian national with ties to Putin's government. Common Cause filed an official complaint with the Federal Election Commission and the Department of Justice against Donald Trump Jr. and the Trump campaign, following reports that Trump Jr. met with a Putin-connected Russian lawyer to obtain "official documents and information that would incriminate Hillary." NOW...we already have confirmation of wrongdoing: Trump Jr. himself tweeted out emails that prove he illegally solicited a contribution from a foreign national, just as our official complaints alleged. Those emails explicitly discuss "Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump." This is what we've been working towards for months. The American people deserve the full story of the Trump campaign’s possible collusion with the Russian government in its attempts to interfere with the 2016 election. Federal law defines a contribution as "anything of value ... for the purpose of influencing any election for Federal office" -- which makes Donald Trump Jr.'s attempt to obtain damaging information on his father's election opponent a clear-cut violation of the law. There’s no telling how deep this goes. One thing is certain: our complaint (Common Cause v. Donald Trump Jr.) and the investigation it calls for could finally expose the truth about Trump and Russia that the American people are demanding. Now that we know Trump Jr. broke the law -- and a full investigation of his crime could reveal the extent of Trump and his team's involvement with Russia's attack on our democracy. Add your name today to demand a full investigation.

My name is Laura, and I'm a mom from Maine. Throughout my pregnancy, I was careful to eat a very healthy diet, get regular exercise, and protect my body and my baby from dangers like alcohol, cigarette smoke, and chemical cleaning products. But I had no idea that there were other dangers hiding in the foods we eat. After a completely normal pregnancy, my son was born with a birth defect called hypospadias with chordee – one of the most common among babies in the United States. At just eight months old, my son needed a three-and-a-half-hour surgery to dismantle and reconstruct his penis. I remember singing to him as an anesthesia mask was placed on his face, trying to help him be less afraid. It was a wrenching experience for all of us. A growing body of scientific evidence shows that chemicals called phthalates harm the growing brain and reproductive health, especially during pregnancy and early childhood. Phthalates interfere with testosterone and thyroid hormones, both critical to healthy development, and may lead to birth defects like the one my son had -- as well as learning disabilities. My son is happy and healthy now, but it was a difficult experience for him and my family. I’ll never know for sure what caused my son’s birth defect. I did not knowingly eat Kraft products during my pregnancy. Still, if I had known the possible harm from phthalates, I would have done my best to avoid phthalates while I was pregnant. But avoiding them is hard. Phthalates are used to soften plastics, and you can find them nearly everywhere: in shower curtains, furniture, cosmetics, and even the foods we eat. They get into our food -- and our bodies! -- by escaping during food processing from plastic tubing, conveyor belts, the plastic gloves food workers wear, even food packaging. Food is the number one source of exposure to these toxic chemicals in utero and during early childhood. And phthalate levels are particularly high in dairy products like cheese and ice cream. We’re calling on Kraft to be a leader in protecting kids and families by eliminating ANY and ALL phthalates in their food processing and products. Kraft is the biggest producer of cheese in the country -- if it changes, others will follow. Plus, Kraft recently eliminated artificial food dyes from Kraft Macaroni & Cheese, so we know it listens to consumers’ voices -- now it’s time to finish the job and protect our kids!

In 1967 I was elected to the House of Representatives, to serve there with honorable people like George H.W. Bush, Gerry Ford and Bob Dole. My family had been Republicans since the time of Abraham Lincoln in 1860. I left the Party in 2007 when my former colleagues, Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld persuaded George W. Bush to claim the right to torture as a Presidential prerogative. His father would never have done that. In June, 1973, I had made the first floor speech to suggest the impeachment of Richard Nixon for obstruction of justice. A year later, the House Judiciary Committee, with four Republicans, including later Secretary of Defense Bill Cohen, voting Aye, impeached Nixon on the charge of obstruction of justice. Now I'm urging Republicans to do some soul-searching about what should be a fairly simple decision...to support, rather than continue to block committee investigations, not just into President Trump's actions, but into the now-admitted fact that his campaign manager, Paul Manafort, his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and son, Donald Jr. attended a meeting with a known Russian agent, to solicit information (clearly an item of value in a tough campaign) from an enemy government seeking to influence our political process. This is clearly a violation of our election laws. More importantly, it justifies inquiry, as the Senate has agreed, by not just their Intelligence Committee, but by the House Judiciary Committee, which will also have jurisdiction over impeachment proceedings if the facts ultimately show obstruction of justice by President Trump. I therefore ask if you will join me in this petition to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Goodlatte, asking him to initiate an immediate investigation of the violation of our election laws by people of either party in assisting the Russian invasion of our electoral process, with all hearings to be public Respectfully, Pete McCloskey, Republican Member of Congress, 1967-83

Fossils fuels cause health problems, are expensive and damage the air we breathe.

Sites like Mangago are distributing ShinCheese to MILLIONS of viewers who love the story and can't read it in any of the published languages on your official site. These people would read it in English on your site if it was available. The creator, Haibara, deserves the official page hits, and so do you, as her publisher. Fans of ShinCheese would be excited and come running to your site for a professionally edited and translated English version of ShinCheese. It would benefit everyone.

Trump will do anything as long as it's legal, he has no moral compass and has shown a willingness to abuse his authority

Americans deserve to know the full details and extent of the Trump campaign’s possible collusion with the Russian government during the 2016 election. Donald Trump Jr. appears to have violated the Federal Election Campaign Act, and now we need the Federal Election Commission to hold him and the Trump campaign accountable. We deserve a president who is accountable to us, not to wealthy donors, his own business interests, or foreign governments. Add your name now to call on the Federal Election Commission to investigate Trump Jr.’s violations of election law!

My petition is about opposing cuts to Medicaid in New Mexico. I would be personally affected by the cuts as I am currently on Medicaid after moving here from Ohio and starting a business.

It has been three and a half years since the botched execution of Dennis McGuire took place in Ohio on January 16, 2014. Since that time, three innocent men have been released from death row in Ohio after their wrongful convictions were finally exposed. Ohio has freed a total of nine innocent men from death row, but we have no idea how many more still sit on death row. One estimate by the National Academy of Sciences suggests that as many as 4% of death row prisoners could be innocent. Despite these unsettling developments, Ohio has announced 27 new execution dates through 2021, beginning with Ronald Phillips on July 26, 2017. With the state’s history of wrongful convictions and botched executions, this rush to resume executions is risky, unnecessary, and it is bad for business. Please tell Gov. Kasich to stop these executions.

The idea that our schools will lose critical funding because of one man's oversized ego, who wasn't even elected by a majority of Rhode Islanders, is really too much for me to take! It should also be too much for any other rational and caring person to take! Our children deserve better than to be used as pawns in Speaker Mattiello's dangerous and irresponsible decision to prevent passage of the state budget.

We are parents and friends of the children attending the UMass Boston Early Learning Center (ELC). UMass Boston's decisions about the ELC not only greatly affects the families who send their children to this wonderful center, but it also has an impact on members of UMass Boston staff, faculty, and students who access their resources, the larger Harbor Point and Boston communities, and the ELC staff who work tirelessly to provide quality educational services at the Early Learning Center. When you sign, please tell us your connection to the ELC/UMass Boston (student, faculty, community member, alumni, etc.).