Friend — just days ago, the EPA proposed new limits on carbon pollution from some new and existing power plants.

This is important — the power sector is one of the country’s leading sources of climate-harming pollution, but up until now, the industry’s pollution levels have gone almost entirely unchecked. The EPA has an obligation under the Clean Air Act to set and enforce limits on these harmful pollutants. The EPA also recently proposed tighter standards for reducing toxic mercury pollution from power plants, which would protect children’s developing brains and make fish safer for them to eat.

While these each would be a big step forward, we still need your help to make these new protections a reality and as strong as possible. The coal industry is lobbying the Biden administration hard against these new pollution limits. Unless the environmental movement demands the strongest possible protections, polluters could succeed in weakening or delaying new protections altogether.

Take action today: tell the EPA that you support the strongest possible protections against pollution from fossil-fueled power plants. We’re aiming to deliver 10,000 comments from environmentalists like you before the public comment deadline >>

With so many powerful fossil-fuel interests fighting to block progress, community input — especially from people like you who care about our environment and climate — could not be more critical. New protections are especially important for frontline communities that have been exposed to pollution from nearby power plants for far too long, with tragic health consequences. 

That’s why we need your help to ensure that the EPA requires power plants to adopt clean solutions that don’t further expose communities to harmful pollution and engages with and listens to communities most exposed to power plant pollution in formulating the final rules. The EPA’s actions must be consistent with President Biden’s climate and environmental justice commitments.

TELL THE EPA TO TACKLE POLLUTION FROM POWER PLANTS >>

Join us in telling the EPA to use every available tool to ensure that new protections against power plant pollution protect our health and climate and minimize negative economic impacts on workers and communities while helping them prepare for and benefit from the nation’s energy transition.

Can you help us reach our goal and combat the coal industry’s continuing efforts to undermine public health and climate action? Send a message to the EPA right now. Tell the EPA it’s time to further limit pollution from power plants — it only takes a moment >>

Thank you for joining us in the fight for a better environmental future.

Onward,

Team LCV