Indiana is among the top 15 American states with polices that actively discriminate against LGBTQ+ people.

Indiana is among the US states that still allows the death penalty which is banned in every other western industrialized country.

Racism, xenophobia, and related discrimination exist in all society and harms the lives of this who endure it and society as a whole.

One of the most densely populated places in the country, Cook County is blessed with 70,000 acres of forest preserve which need restoration and protection.

Illinois is working to expand gun controls and is third in the country for gun law strength.

Mass incarceration of people of color, prison conditions, polluted water, an increase in the use of isolation are just some of the reasons for prison reform including in Illinois.

Designed into Chicago’s sewer system in the 1850s, the recovering Chicago-Calumet River is a haven for people and wildlife and protective rules governing use still need to be enforced.

Since Roe V. Wade was overturned, abortion is completely banned with very limited exceptions.

Idaho is one of the top 15 states with major book bans in schools.

Idaho encourages killing wolves and grizzlies even by helicopter, placing a state paid bounty on wolves and employing workarounds on national protections.

Idaho is among the US states that still allows the death penalty, which is banned in every other western industrialized country, and reauthorized the use of firing squads.

Idaho has among the worst gun laws in the country, with high gun suicides rates, household firearm ownership, a Shoot First law, and a guns-on-campus mandate.

With some of the strongest gun laws in the country, Hawaii has one of the lowest rates of gun ownership and death from guns, and holds gun industry members accountable when their actions result in harm.

Mobuild rays are being caught for the highly disputed Asian homeopathic medication market, and are also dumped as bycatch.

With so much of the islands already overrun by the tourism, Hawaii needs protections to control development and the impacts from the travel industry.

For too long Hawaiian culture and traditions have been hijacked, misappropriated, and treated with disrespect.

Plastic pollution, which carries toxins that harm people too, is killing Hawaii’s ocean wildlife including sea turtles, whales, seabirds and fish and destroying once pristine coastal environments.

Decades of fire suppression is causing blazes to burn hotter and under more hostile conditions, destroying once fire resistant forests and is a condition made worse by the climate crisis.

Chronic homelessness increased by 130% in recent years in Colorado and the high cost of living in many cities makes it worse.

Decades of fire suppression is causing blazes to burn hotter and under more hostile conditions, destroying once fire resistant forests, and a condition made worse by the climate crisis.