Comment on the Administration’s Dirty Power Plan—Deadline October 31

From PennEnvironment (http://www.pennenvironment.org):

The climate wake-up calls are everywhere. Scientific reports like the one published earlier this month by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change confirm it; heat waves, wildfires and extreme weather drive it home.¹

We still have time to avert the worst effects of climate change, but we have run out of time for mistakes.

The administration’s power plan would be a devastating mistake. Submit your public comment today at https://pennenvironment.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=29393.

The administration’s power plan would be a disaster for our climate and environment. It would allow millions more tons of global warming pollution to be pumped into the atmosphere. It would keep dirty, coal-fired power plants in operation longer. It would slow our energy sector’s transition to clean and renewable power at a time when we need to accelerate it.^2,3

The Environmental Protection Agency itself acknowledges that the plan will result in more carbon, soot and smog-forming emissions than the Obama-era Clean Power Plan it’s replacing.⁴

The deadline to submit a public comment on the plan is Oct. 31. Submit your comment today.

There’s no way around it: If we’re going to escape the worst effects of global warming, we’re going to have to get our carbon emissions under control. This plan takes us in the complete opposite direction.

Add your name now to tell the administration you won’t stand for this Dirty Power Plan.

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   Stephen Leahy, “Climate change impacts worse than expected, global report warns,” National Geographic, October 7, 2018.

2. Lisa Friedman, “E.P.A.’s New Coal Pollution Rules Will Lead to More Deaths, Agency’s Numbers Show,” The New York Times, August 21, 2018.
3. Juliet Eilperin, “New Trump power plant plan would release hundreds of millions of tons of CO2 into the air,” The Washington Post, August 18, 2018.
4. Emily Holden, “Exclusive: Draft details Trump’s plan for reversing Obama climate rule,” Politico, August 14, 2018.