It is important to reduce our coal use and replace with biomass grown on Ohio lands. There are more jobs in solar wind for Ohioans in solar, biomass and wind than higly mechanized and environmentally destructive coal mining. I strongly urge you to be forward looking in energy policies rather backward looking to coal and oil and nuclear. I have been disappointed in your performance so far on coal and supporting the use of Ohio as a possible nuclear waste storage facility (aka dump site).
- Athens, OHI know you have been a strong advocate for moving toward non-polluting energy. I beieve we must reduce toxic emissions more rapidly than any government agencies have offered. I believe it is a matter of life and death for this planet.
- Cleveland, OH 44120I just graduated from Ohio State this June. I believe that my generation needs to change the world, but we cannot do that without yours. It is so important to start changing now. I ask that you think of your grandchildren and even their children when you are making these important decisions for us. I voted for you because I believed you had all of Ohio's best interests at heart. Please prove that I was right. Thank You,
- Hopewell, OH 43746
Ohio is one of the worst places when it comes to air quality. Increasingly, any one who has allergies find this place increasingly difficult to breath normally. I know that my brother and his family had to leave Ohio because the air was basically toxic to his youngest daughter. Pretty soon, it is going to be impossible for anyone with a breathing aliment to reside in this state if we do not do something about the pollution Ohio and Americans are responsible for releaseing unencumbered into the natural environment.
- Columbus, OH 43224It is important for our great state of Ohio to develop programs to curb global warming and support any and all efforts to promote renewable energy. Human growth and our misuse of our planet is killing our beautiful world and its innocent wildlife. We must act. We need to continue to show our planet respect. I know that you are equally interested in promoting world/wildlife preservation.
- Shaker Hts, OH 44120
Once again, our fair city of Columbus is under yet another air quality warnings today. My asthma will once again be a problem as I am walking my dog today. The smell of our city is distinctive horrible as you approach town on the freeway. As our unemployment numbers rise, air quality diminishes, and temperatures rise, we need a leader that has had enough. While other organizations are working on improving more efficient and less polluting automobiles, we need you to take a leadership role in helping us wipe out the horrible chemical emissions from the numerous fossil-fuel plants and industrial companies here in Ohio. There is absolutely no reason why these companies should be allowed to continue to pour Chlorine, Acrylonitrile and Butadien into our air--causing cancer and forcing us to even close SCHOOLS!
We need strong incentives for these companies to find ways to recycle their waste by products into reusable energy and find productive ways to capture these harmful byproducts. Alternative energy sources are OUR FUTURE, and we have a great opportunity to take a leadership role in encouraging the development of these technologies to bring jobs back to our state. Wind Energy Turbines, Solar Panels, long lasting batteries utilizing nanno technologies, bio fuels...these are just some of the emerging new industries that can bring new job opporunties to our country and our state.
The money and incentives you allocate now toward reducing our global warming pollution in Ohio and embracing environmentally friendly companies to bring jobs to Ohio will save billions of future dollars to correct unspeakable future problems--including the health of our children, our citizens, our state, our country, and our planet.
It was an honor to vote for you. I believe you can lead the charge to turn this state around and proactively find ways to lead our state into a new "state-of-mind." It is time to embrace the future for the health of the state and our citizens. It is time to say "enough is enough." Let us become leaders in this cause and send a breath of fresh air to our current sick state of being. I will gladly be one of your strongest evangelists!
-Columbus, OH 43220
I understand that Ohio is the 4th largest contributor to global warming pollution in the country. This is like the equivalent of the "worst first" list, to me. Not encouraging. As our Governor I feel it is your honor & duty to protect not only me & my family & friends but your own. We are all breathing in this air and feeling the effects which have already substancially worsened in our own lifetime. What will happen for our children, their children, & the generations to come, our own incarnation, if you believe in that sort of thing?
You are in the unique position to do something really important with your life--be one of the stewards for the future,of our life on this planet. you can choose to help sustain us all or contribute to the demise of us all. What you do, what we all do has.consequences. I encourage you to do the right things, we have all been sleeping-now is the time to wake up & take great care with our actions to try to reverse the course we are on. The writing is on the wall-are you articulate? I'm watching to see,....Please take action to reduce our shameful status our state ranks in the pollution contribution to the globe. Let's turn Ohio around to being the last on the "worst first" list & the first on the Green & sustainable "Best of the rest" list. Please look into expanding solar, wind, and water (via brown's gas) as our God given resources.....
-Yellow Springs, OH 45387
Dealing with global warming is multidimensional. You can secure the environmental future of our children and their world, the finances of our state by stopping the flow of energy dollars out of the state (and country) and creating jobs energizing our homes and businesses with clean, renewable energy sources. We would be ecstatic to put solar on our home and send the excess power to the local central dispersal unit.
We need to make our home more energy efficient. We cannot do this alone. We need the state's help. We could pay back any loans with the money we save. We want to do this because it is good for our children's future, because it would help our finances (or at least re-orient them so they promote a healthier style of life for our children and their world).
- Akron, OH 44303I have had asthma, and know its frightening, life-threatening effects. It is exacerbated by pollution, as is well known. Also, I love our earth, and want for my grandchildren to know its beauty and experience good health as they live upon it. No amount of profit "loss" should impede our dedication to immediately reduce global warming as much as we possibly can. Life and health are the important things! Near me is the Cemex factory, which wants to burn tires as fuel--releasing known carcinogens into our air. You can stop that by reversing the EPA decision to allow it "for four months". Please do all you can!
-Yellow Springs, OH 45387
This is not just about global warming, it is about what earth we are leaving for our children. I used to worry if my children would get to live in a world without elephants. Now I worry my children will live in a world without polar bears and whales, with depleted oceans, increasingly violent weather, massive droughts... what is going to become of them? You pledged to promote clean, renewable energy. I see nothing! How about installing solar and wind at all the homes in Ohio. How about improving the energy efficient of all homes in Ohio. Take out bonds to do that so we do not send all our money to Texas and the Middle East to use against us. Think of the work that would be created. Buy from an Ohio company and make your home powered by clean energy and lower that energy use with a home made more energy efficient by Ohio workers with windows, doors and insulation made in Ohio. Low cost loans to do this would begin a boom in Ohio that would pay those bonds back.
- Akron, OH 44303
As a teacher for almost 30 years and as a concerned parent, grandparent, and citizen of the earth,. I appeal to you and other decision makers in addressing global warming. We have waited far too long as it is. I have personally been teaching about this for the last 25 years and action is long overdue. More coal production is not the long term answer and Ohio needs to come to terms in reducing polluting coal plants.
-Dayton, OH 45415
Please take the actions to clean up our air, water, soil, energy alternatives. Also, Ohio should ban plastic bags. It's amazing how much pollution and danger they are to us, nature, animals, etc., etc. Plastic bags have just gone outrageous, wasteful and dangerous to everyone. Please STOP, STOP the use of them. thanks.
- Cleveland, OH 44105
As a concerned citizen I urge you to take strong action to help preserve out environment by reducing dependence on a carbon based energy system. In Toledo a coking plant is near construction, which will just add to pollution and increased risk of global warming. I urge you to follow Vice President Gore's lead and help move Ohio to the forefront of innovates states to combat global warming. Thank you for your prompt strong action in this crucial matter.
- Sylvania, OH 43560There is a great deal of suffering in Ohio, particularly in areas that depended on industries that no longer have a strong presence here. To ignore the clear and pressing issue of global warming would be to ignore the pressures that many Ohioans already live with and to promise them even harder ones in the future. Everyone plans to have a future, but unless serious legislation is passed concerning climate change and Ohio's contribution to it, we are working against ourselves to ensure that we won't. Please be the strong role model, the person who is brave enough to stand for what is best for the people in face of any opposition. We need someone who is unafraid to set the precedents that everyone seems to be waiting for. Ohio has an opportunity to take a real position of leadership on this issue and it would not only be a true and very deep shame to waste it for Ohioans, but for the rest of the country and, indeed, the world.
-Cleveland, OH 44106
Ohio is a major consumer of coal energy, which is unfortunate due to the fact that its not only very, very dirty, but the mining of it also contributes to countless human health disasters and irreparable habitat destruction. Why are we, as Ohio, still fueled principally by coal? Not only do we have huge wind power potential in our state, especially in the NW and Lake Erie offshore arenas, but even nuclear energy, which is safer than ever, is cleaner than coal. Why does Ohio lag? Why are we still addicted to coal?
- Columbus, OH 43201
I care about global warming partly because I love nature and partly for the obvious reason that it will disrupt every aspect of human society as well as nature. We in Ohio can go ahead and begin taking action simply because it has to start somewhere. Waiting for our "leaders" in Washington to actually lead has already consumed too many years. Let's so what we can. Blame accomplishes nothing; leadership does.
-Columbus, OH 43223
You and I both know the time to act on global warming was...10 years ago. It may well be too late already, but we should certainly be trying to mitigate the effects that will most assuredly drastically change our quality of life just a bit down the road.
- Cleveland, OH 44135
For me, it is an economic story. Oil and coal are yesterday's energy sources. Energy efficiency, wind, and solar are tomorrow's energy sources. Tomorrow's energy sources will very soon become significantly cheaper to use and the states that use them sooner will have a tremendous economic advantage.
-Cincinnati, OH 45242
I just want to urge you to do all you can to stop global warming. Aside from the obvious issues like losing our poplar bears, penguins and seals, are the concerns of human life and how much of it will be destroyed or at least drastically changed. I have a two year old grandson and I would really like for him to be able to enjoy a stable environment his whole life.
- Mansfield, OH 44907We have become such a wasteful society. I see my parents buy SUVs and bottled water and paper plates and so much waste that is hurting the environment. I am not out on my own yet but its terrible to stand by and watch and feel like I can't make a difference. So that's why I'm writing you; because I want to make and be the difference our society needs. Writing to you is my relief; please help me reduce waste and lower carbon emissions in our state and the US by doing the right thing and making decisions that will benefit our society in generations to come. Thank you.
-Dublin, OH 43017
It's vitally necessary to stop the pollution so that we can eliminate global warming. Please take the necessary steps.
-Brecksville, OH 44141
Governor Strickland I think we have a problem with global warming. Not sure how, but their seems to be enough changes in the weather and it seems to be hurting many people. I believe we should do everything we can to cut down on most energy use, some chemical going out into the air, and we need to stop wasting so much of the planets reserves.
-Sebring, OH 44672
Curb Ohio's global warming pollution NOW...
-St. Clair Shores, MI
Why is it the Ohio, the state that for so long depended upon its waterways to build up this nation, is now at the bottom of the list in taking steps to stop global warming pollution in this country. I had hoped that we would not be one of those states that allowed the big industries (coal) to make our decisions for us. You, when you accepted your job as governor of this state, made a promise to your people that you would do all in your power to promote the good of all. There are some things over which you have little control. Hesitation to take a stand against global warming pollution is not one of them. Get Busy Keeping Your Promises.
-Mt. St. Joseph, OH 45051
The past decade and a half, I have noticed a change in our climate especially our storms and their severity. It concerns me not only for my sake but the children I teach and my own grandchildren. The storms' intensities are much stronger and the rainfall amounts are too much at one time. We have lived in this house over twenty years, the last two years we have had sewer water in our basement twice. Flooding is becoming a major problem in the Toledo area. The high winds are bringing down trees as well. I have lived in this neighborhood the majority of my 51 years.
Visiting upstate New York is an eyeopener as well. Acid rain from Ohio's power plants are killing the lakes creating dead lakes. See "Moose Lake" in the Adirondack State Park for an example. Please use your power to stop the polluting of our environment and make Ohio a green state. The majority of the people I talk with feel this way as well. Create much needed manufacturing and research and development jobs here in our state while we combat global warming.
-Toledo, OH 43614