Tell the EPA: It’s Time to Tackle Power Plant Pollution
Hi John,
The EPA has just proposed new rules to limit carbon pollution and toxic mercury from fossil-fueled power plants. These steps are much needed and long overdue — new protections will lead to cleaner air, healthier communities, and a safer climate for years to come.
Now we need your help to urge the EPA to finalize the strongest protections as quickly as possible. Polluters are expected to lobby hard against the EPA’s proposals and it's critical that they hear from conservation voters like you right now.
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.
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.
