Reducing greenhouse gas pollution is one of the most urgent things for our government to do.
Tell the EPA we need stronger rules to protect us from climate change.
The effects of climate change are everywhere. Historically warm winters, killer heat waves and droughts, and 100-year storms have hammered our country in recent years.
Still, power plants in the US are allowed to spew unlimited carbon pollution, which is driving us closer to runaway climate change.
President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finally proposed the first ever rule to change this. Unfortunately, to be as effective as possible, this rule needs to be strengthened significantly.
The rule — known as the Carbon Pollution Standard — limits the amount of carbon pollution that new coal-fired power plants are allowed to emit. Unfortunately, the rule is full of loopholes and applies only to new power plants that are unlikely to be built in the first place. The rule does nothing to reduce carbon pollution from existing sources.
The EPA is now accepting public comments. This is your chance to let the EPA know you want the loopholes closed, the rule finalized and for them to get to work on limiting the coal fired power plants that actually exist.
Tell the EPA: We need strong legal limits to protect us from existing and future sources of carbon pollution.
Coal-fired power plants are the largest single source of carbon pollution in the US. If we don’t put a limit on the amount of climate change causing pollution they are allowed to spew into the air then things are only going to get worse.
Greenpeace and other groups have been working in communities across the country to close down these dirty old plants and stop new ones from being built altogether. We’ve been extremely successful, but we need a strong ruling from the EPA on this issue to fully address climate change.
Americans, have an important role to play in the final outcome of this rule. Almost 200,000 Greenpeace supporters have already submitted their comments to the EPA. Take a minute and add your voice to that list.
Tell the EPA: We need strong legal limits to protect us from existing and future sources of carbon pollution.
Sincerely,
Gabe Wisniewski
Greenpeace USA Coal Campaign Director
Be a Seed for Change 
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