MoveOn.org has used the controversy to promote its own petition project, which it notes is nonprofit and doesn't face the same pressures as a private company.
Rio Tinto also at least believes that humans are causing global warming, unlike Carey of the Ohio Coal Association, who used part of his testimony to rip the science and refer to the anti-global warming Petition Project (which has been debunked, by the way).
The Mercers have backed the Heartland Institute and Heritage Foundation, conservative groups that have tried to discredit climate scientists, and via their foundation bankrolled initiatives such as the Berkeley Earth and Oregon Petition projects.
A petition against the project garnered nearly 7,000 signatures.
More than 1,400 students have signed a petition against the project.
As the city's Department of Design and Construction prepares an environmental assessment for the parks department and the Design Commission, which has final approval over the plans, neighbors have gathered more than 12,000 signatures on a petition opposing the project.
Almost 100,000 people signed a petition against the project, 119 environmental scientists protested, and in December, the standing committee of the Bern Convention added to the pressure, opening an inquiry into the levees.
The 100-strong group, led by Pritzker prize winner Fumihiko Maki, 85, filed a petition against the project earlier this month, protesting that the stadium was two to three times the size of its equivalents in London and Athens, and more than three times their cost, at 300bn yen (£1.8bn).
Oswaldo Payá, the leader of the Varela Project petition drive seeking personal and political freedoms, spoke by telephone on the eve of a periodic review in Washington covering American policy toward Cuba that may result in a tightening of restrictions on contact.
But after the collapse of all their hopes, in the grey years when, as one of his fellow writers put it, "there was a silence like a swamp" across the land, it was Havel who proved best able to rally them, to judge when the moment had come to go public with a petition or a project such as Charter 77 – and also when to go to prison and not into exile, as he was offered the choice of doing.
Shortly after that, Allocab, Chauffeur-privé, LeCab and SnapCar put together an online petition against the project.
