{PBJFlorida} FW: Let's clean up our power plants

PBJ,

Given the current conversation, this is one way to take action and make a difference.

Hope you agree.

 

From: Sally Bingham, Interfaith Power & Light [mailto:action@theregenerationproject.org]
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 7:01 AM
To: Louise Sheehy
Subject: Let's clean up our power plants

 

If you are having trouble viewing this email, click here.   Support Historic Pollution Limits Support EPA carbon pollution safeguards. Send in your comment. Last month, I wrote you with the historic news that the Environmental Protection Agency has proposed our nation's first-ever industrial carbon pollution limits for new power plants. IPL supporters and clergy in Chicago and Washington, D.C., will speak at public hearings this week in support of the proposal. We want you to have a say, too! Please join 1.3 million others who have already voiced their support for the EPA proposal and send your comment by clicking here. Power plants are currently the single largest source of global warming pollution in the United States. (You probably saw the news last week that we just experienced the hottest 12 months ever.) These emissions also trigger a range of harmful health problems, from asthma and other respiratory ailments to heart attacks. Because our faith calls us to care for our neighbors, and because air pollution disproportionately harms the most vulnerable in our society, we must speak out now. The EPA's new standards will require all new power plants to emit 60 percent less pollution than the average coal-fired power plant does today. Modernizing our power plants will be a win-win for communities and people nationwide, supporting clean air and good jobs. In addition to the hearings in Chicago and Washington, D.C., Industrial Carbon Pollution Citizens' Hearings are being held around the country over the next month. Watch our website and Facebook page for the latest information and news of a hearing near you. God's gifts of clean air and a stable climate are ones we treasure and must safeguard every day. So please join me and the rest of the Interfaith Power & Light community and speak up today on behalf of clean air, healthy children, and a brighter future. Thank you! Faithfully,  The Rev. Canon Sally G. Bingham Interfaith Power & Light P.S. Industrial polluters are already working to block the new carbon limits. That's why it's important for you to add your voice in support of the EPA's action today.  lnterfaith Power & Light is a national campaign of The Regeneration Project with affiliates in over 39 states. 220 Montgomery Street, Suite 450, San Francisco, CA 94104 You can reach us at (415) 561-4891 Make a tax-deductible donation to Interfaith Power & Light

  

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