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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. 

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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.

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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.

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Sincerely,

Gabe Wisniewski
Greenpeace USA Coal Campaign Director

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Healthy Women’s Action Kit Featured in “Dear Abby”


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The Story of the Affordable Care Act: From an Unmet Promise to the Law of the Land


This video shows the road to health reform and how the president delivered affordable health care for all Americans.

The new law is making health care work better for all of us, even if you already have insurance. It puts the health of your family first—ensuring access to free preventive care and protecting consumers from insurance company abuses.

#ACA is also a jobs jobs jobs creator

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Bacon grease as birth control?


National Women's Law Center - My Health Is Not Up for Debate: Protect Reproductive Health
 
     
  Bacon Grease and Marriage Licenses?  
     
   
     
  Ask your mom, aunt, grandmother her story about the challenges of accessible birth control or share your own story with us.  
     
  Share Your Story  
     

Yes, that’s right – creative uses of bacon grease and having to show your marriage license to get a prescription for birth control is what many of our mothers, great aunts, and grandmothers endured.

Check out the stories we’ve received and share stories from your mom, grandmother, aunt, or yourself about the challenges of gaining access to birth control.

It’s been nearly fifty years since the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Connecticut v Griswold struck down state bans on birth control. Yet women in at least 24 states have reported that their pharmacists have denied them access to birth control. And politicians are not making it any easier by trying to limit access to affordable contraception and other women’s health care needs.

Help us collect stories to remind our daughters and granddaughters about the fights we have won — and help them fight the challenges that lie ahead. Ask your mom, aunt, or grandmother her story about the challenges of accessible birth control or share your own story with us.

Sincerely,
 
Judy Waxman   Judy Waxman
Vice President for Health and Reproductive Rights
National Women’s Law Center 		 

P.S. Don’t think moms talk to daughters about birth control? Check out a video of my daughter and me discussing how difficult it used to be to access birth control.