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Conservation: The Yocha Dehe nation and local environmentalists are petitioning the Biden administration to extend federal protection to Molok Luyuk, a rocky ridge with more than 30 rare botanical species, The Guardian reports.

From New York Times • May 1, 2023

Campaigners are petitioning the government to introduce a tax on artificial lawns "in order to act as a deterrent and encourage land owners towards less damaging and more sustainable options".

From BBC • Aug. 8, 2022

We have former colonies in the Caribbean who are petitioning to end their relationship with the crown.

From Salon • Jun. 2, 2022

Kids Behind Bars: Life or Parole This documentary series, which spotlights child offenders sentenced to life in prison without parole and are petitioning to be re-sentenced, returns for a second season.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 26, 2021

They are not driven from our fort; and they even delivered two infants to us for baptism, and others are petitioning it.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 22 of 55 1625-29 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by Robertson, James Alexander