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The EPA recently confirmed that the destruction of rainforests for palm oil is having a devastating impact on our climate. In fact, this deforestation, in large part for palm oil plantations, has led Indonesia to become the third largest greenhouse gas emitter in the world, just behind China and the United States. These severe climate and forest impacts should ensure that palm-oil based biofuels stay out of the EPA’s Renewable Fuel Standard, which mandates that American motorists use 36 billion gallons of biofuel in their cars and trucks by 2022. But not if the powerful palm oil lobby has anything to do with it. A massive lobby effort led by palm oil companies Cargill and Wilmar is being waged to persuade the EPA to overturn its own climate science on palm oil. Tell Obama’s EPA not to cave to industry pressure on palm oil and climate change. Palm oil companies know this is jeopardizing news to their multi-billion dollar industry. In the United States, the EPA’s decision could also determine to what extent the U.S. becomes a major palm oil buyer. Consumption of palm oil in the United States is growing at a much faster rate than anywhere else in the world–making sense that industry reps from Indonesia and Malaysia are concerned about protecting palm oil’s reputation here. The palm oil industry will do whatever it takes to maximize profits at the expense of destruction of the forest, species, and communities of Indonesia and Malaysia–where 85% of the world’s palm oil is cultivated.
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Will the EPA Choose Political Influence over Science?
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The EPA recently confirmed that the destruction of rainforests for palm oil is having a devastating impact on our climate. In fact, this deforestation, in large part for palm oil plantations, has led Indonesia to become the third largest greenhouse gas emitter in the world, just behind China and the United States. These severe climate and forest impacts should ensure that palm-oil based biofuels stay out of the EPA’s Renewable Fuel Standard, which mandates that American motorists use 36 billion gallons of biofuel in their cars and trucks by 2022. But not if the powerful palm oil lobby has anything to do with it. A massive lobby effort led by palm oil companies Cargill and Wilmar is being waged to persuade the EPA to overturn its own climate science on palm oil. Tell Obama’s EPA not to cave to industry pressure on palm oil and climate change. Palm oil companies know this is jeopardizing news to their multi-billion dollar industry. In the United States, the EPA’s decision could also determine to what extent the U.S. becomes a major palm oil buyer. Consumption of palm oil in the United States is growing at a much faster rate than anywhere else in the world–making sense that industry reps from Indonesia and Malaysia are concerned about protecting palm oil’s reputation here. The palm oil industry will do whatever it takes to maximize profits at the expense of destruction of the forest, species, and communities of Indonesia and Malaysia–where 85% of the world’s palm oil is cultivated.
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Thanks for standing up to big polluters and saying NO to new carbon pollution …Kevin S. Curtis, Climate Reality
Thanks for standing up to big polluters and saying NO to new carbon pollution.
You sent a message supporting a historic limit on carbon pollution in the U.S. It will bring us one step closer to solving the climate crisis. As of today, we and the rest of the environmental community have sent the EPA a record-breaking 1.5 million comments supporting the proposal.
But we’re not done yet. If we want to make an impact, we need everyone to get involved.
Share our petition with your friends and family. Post it on your Facebook page and on your friend’s Facebook page. Tweet it!
Ask your friends to give carbon the finger.
Some days it seems impossible to make progress – but not today. Today there is something you can do. Ask your friends to join you in sending a message to our leaders: No new carbon pollution in the United States.
http://forms.climaterealityproject.org/share-the-standard
Thanks again,
Kevin S. Curtis Chief Program and Advocacy Officer The Climate Reality Project
Thanks for standing up to big polluters and saying NO to new carbon pollution.
You sent a message supporting a historic limit on carbon pollution in the U.S. It will bring us one step closer to solving the climate crisis. As of today, we and the rest of the environmental community have sent the EPA a record-breaking 1.5 million comments supporting the proposal.
But we’re not done yet. If we want to make an impact, we need everyone to get involved.
Share our petition with your friends and family. Post it on your Facebook page and on your friend’s Facebook page. Tweet it!
Ask your friends to give carbon the finger.
Some days it seems impossible to make progress – but not today. Today there is something you can do. Ask your friends to join you in sending a message to our leaders: No new carbon pollution in the United States.
http://forms.climaterealityproject.org/share-the-standard
Thanks again,
Kevin S. Curtis Chief Program and Advocacy Officer The Climate Reality Project
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Reducing greenhouse gas pollution … Gabe Wisniewski, Greenpeace
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
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