Big Cypress, the United States' first national preserve, protects over 700,000 acres of wetlands that allow the flow of clean water into the Everglades and critical estuaries along the Florida coast. It is home to hundreds of species including over 100 threatened and endangered animals and plants including the Florida Panther. The land is sacred to the Miccosukee and Seminole tribes who continue to fight for the preservation of their homeland, way of life, and the environment amidst continued exploitation by the oil exploration and extraction industry. Burnett Oil Company has been seeking approval for new permits to develop oil infrastructure that would allow the company to construct oil wells and access roads to facilitate new oil drilling in the Cypress wetlands. As of recently, the company has withdrawn said permits but plans to resubmit soon. Now is the time for action. Still bearing scars from the company's previous exploitation of the land in 2017 and 2018, the effects of further oil development of Big Cypress include damage to wetlands (an important carbon sink), local wildlife, aquifers that provide clean drinking water, and cultural/educational resources and values. Not to mention the unequivocal contribution to greenhouse gas emissions and climate change, a problem that threatens the well being of countless species and billions of people all over the world including millions across coastal Florida. For the sake of Florida's natural environment and the affected communities, sign this petition to block these efforts by the Burnett Oil Company and keep the oil in the ground, now and always. #StopCypressOil

Fifty years ago, the Voting Rights Movement marched through Selma and over the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The marches across the bridge led to the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, and today the bridge is a symbol of nonviolent victory for change! Unfortunately, the bridge is STILL named after a man who served as Grand Dragon of the Alabama Ku Klux Klan, was a Confederate General, and was later elected as a United States Senator. The bridge was the site of “Bloody Sunday”. On March 7, 1965, hundreds of nonviolent protesters attempted to march from Selma to Montgomery for their right to vote. But as they crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge, they were met by Alabama state troopers and deputized civilians who were armed with billy clubs, tear gas, and cattle prods and attacked the marchers and drove them back to Brown Chapel Church. How could a landmark that holds so much significance for the civil rights movement be named after a man who not only supported slavery, but held one of the highest positions within the Ku Klux Klan? It's time for the state of Alabama, the city of Selma, and the National Park Service to remove a KKK leader's name from the historic bridge.  Selma and the Voting Rights Movement altered the course of history forever, and Selma has done too much for this country to remain unchanged. Selma is currently 80% African American, with a black mayor and majority African American local city officials. The name Edmund Pettus is far from what the city of Selma should honor. Let’s change the image of the bridge from hatred and rename it to memorialize hope and progress. Please sign our petition calling on Selma and Alabama leaders and the National Park Service to rename the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

​Imagine the worst thing you've done in your lifetime. Now imagine if every time you walked through your town, every time you went to your high school, or even drove down your road, you were reminded of that event. That is only a fragment of the pain I imagine is experienced on a daily basis due to Confederate statues and monuments. As Americans, how embarrassing is it that we have glorified and idolized these men and objects enough to quite literally put them on a pedestal? The most atrocious and inhumane act of our history is being put on display at roughly 718 locations in the United States. The current climate and long overdue initiative being taken for equality and justice is reason enough to remove these belittling reminders of a past to be ashamed of. Help me bring this issue to light and support the removal of any and all Confederate statues, monuments, and memorials.

The U.S. Virgin Islands National Park, in the Caribbean, gets many tourists from the mainland United States. It has beautiful bays and many sea turtles graze in the seagrass. People come with boats and moor them in the bays. But, unfortunately, people are harassing sea turtles at some of these bays. This means they pet, chase and ride turtles. This is against the law because sea turtles are endangered and protected and because being harassed harms them in many ways. This harm includes disrupting their eating, resting, and most importantly, nesting behaviors. These beaches are sea turtle nesting sites and very important to the conservation of these endangered animals. Many people still harass the turtles, possibly because there isn’t enough publicity about the law. The signs that are in existence are only on the beaches, and pretty small. I am petitioning for two things: larger signs on the beaches and signs on buoys near the mooring sites. The reason for signs on buoys is that many people are coming from the boats moored in the bay, and don’t see the signs on the beach. When I have enough signatures on this petition, I intend to submit this to U.S. National Park Service and its director. Image citation: green sea turtle..(Chelonia mydas), Red sea, Marsa Alam, Abu Dabab, Egypt. Photograph. Britannica ImageQuest, Encyclopædia Britannica, 9 Jul 2018. quest.eb.com/search/322_2763993/1/322_2763993/cite. Accessed 1 May 2021.

Trump has rolled back regulations on the Endangered Species Act, and is now actively working to sell oil AND gas drilling rights in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge...threatening the lives of our already dwindling populations of polar bears, caribou, wolves, whales and many many other species. These animals have well known migratory paths throughout the ANWR that will be destroyed and disrupted if drilling is allowed to occur there, not to mention how devastating the effects of drilling will be to their living environment.  It is also a protected land of the indigenous Gwich'in tribes from the north who rely on these lands and the animals within them to live. The government claims this is a necessary evil to assure our economy and energy resources in america,however scientists and economic advisors have released papers saying that drilling here does not offer any economic or energy assurities to our country. The ANWR is the largest refuge of it's kind, we cannot allow it to be destroyed. Please help me fight this and protect our beautiful planet! Sign this petition please! And share it!

Fair Oaks Farms is one of the largest dairies and producers of dairy goods in the United States. Fair Oaks Farm in Indiana as of recently has been investigated by Animal Recovery Mission, an animal rights activist group. The horrific, video evidence shows baby calves being burned, beaten, stabbed, and mother cows crying out loud for their young ones. The video also shows employees growing and using illegal drugs on the farm itself. By signing this petition you will help the fight in preventing this kind of cruelty from going on any longer to these poor animals.        

These monuments are a reminder of what our country had to go through to become whole again. Many of these monuments are not only in dedication to the men who served in the Confederacy but they also served in the US army pre-civil war. It is important to save these monuments for future generations to see these monuments and learn about them and the men who gave everything for a several causes. These were brave men, good men and religious men. I beg the President, Vice President and the US Supreme Court to stop the purge of our American History in our cities and towns across the south.  I urge President Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and the U.S. Supreme Court to sign a bill into law protecting these monuments, all military monuments from removal. Please save our history. 

Dear Acting Director Smith, Speaker Ryan, Delegate Norton, and Mayor Bowser, On August 12, 2017, Heather Heyer was murdered during a rally and counter-protest in Charlottesville, Virginia that sought to preserve Confederate culture, glorify slavery, and display abhorrent White Supremacist ideals. Some of the organizers of that rally are now planning an event in Washington, D.C. on August 11, 2018, under the thinly-veiled guise of a "white civil rights" protest. Jason Kessler, Richard Spencer, their associates and assorted partner organizations are not welcome within the boundaries of the District of Columbia. They will receive no assistance funded by taxpayers from the Executive Branch, Legislative Branch, nor the municipal government with jurisdiction over the areas where they seek to promote their hate-speech. We, the undersigned, urge you to deny permits for this rally and leverage your respective oversight powers to send a clear signal that the citizens of the District of Columbia refuse to offer a venue for intolerance, racism, and anti-American values in our city. Hate is not welcome here.Sincerely, Concerned Citizens of the District of Columbia

The U.S. Department of the Interior is considering selling the campgrounds in National Parks in an effort to “modernize” the parks and bring in more money. Their plans will ruin the pristine beauty of some of the most magnificent places in the world with food trucks and other theme park-esque attractions. Privatization can also be harmful to the wildlife in the parks in the form of noise pollution and food scraps that will attract animals to roadsides and parking lots which increases their chances of being struck by careless drivers. Food scraps can also introduce new bacteria to wildlife making them unable to digest their normal diet. In addition to privatization endangering wildlife, it will drive up the parks’ entrance fees which will inhibit working-class Americans from enjoying all that the parks have to offer. We need to tell the Department of the Interior that we care about our national parks and that we won’t see them ruined. President Franklin D. Roosevelt said it best "There is nothing so American as our national parks... The fundamental idea behind the parks...is that the country belongs to the people, that it is in process of making for the enrichment of the lives of all of us." These are our parks, do not allow them to be ruined by corporate greed!

On July 6th, 2021, the Maryland herd of the wild Assateague Ponies lost another horse due to a vehicular incident.  Moonshadow was a 4 year old mare with her 3 month old filly.  While both were injured, only Moonshadow succumbed to her injuries.  This is not the first time that this has occurred.  Following the pandemic and resurgence of people enjoying the outdoors, Assateague has had an increase in visitation.  While it is awesome to see people enjoying the great outdoors and especially this beautiful island, it has brought forth some issues.  The greatest of which is speed on the island.  The posted speed limit of 25 is rarely followed and if you do follow it, you are often tailgated and the recipient of honks, comments, etc.  This Island belongs to the horses/ponies and other wildlife; we just visitors.  What I am proposing is the addition of speed bumps from turn onto Bayberry Drive at the Maryland Seashore to OSV route entrance at the end of Bayberry Drive.  This would require folks to slow down and potentially save the Island's inhabitants.  https://www.wmdt.com/2021/07/assateague-island-national-seashore-wild-horse-dies-in-apparent-hit-and-run/