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Given the extent of the pollution, community members have been petitioning the state for years to test neighboring properties, including Hillside Elementary and a former industrial site that is being redeveloped into apartments.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2024

"I am believing that Mr. Tim O'Hare is an answered prayer of what we have been petitioning heaven for for the last year and a half."

From Salon • Oct. 31, 2022

Fans have been petitioning for Disney to rehire Gunn, who was fired from the production after right-wing personalities unearthed a series of his old tweets that made light of rape and pedophilia.

From Slate • Jul. 30, 2018

He and fellow Sen. Heidi Heitkamp have been petitioning the federal government to open a permanent office in Williston.

From Washington Times • Mar. 5, 2015

For thirty-five years they have been petitioning and holding conventions and demanding that certain relief should be granted them, to the extent of allowing them to exercise the right of suffrage.

From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV by Harper, Ida Husted