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Tell the EPA to Control CO2

Target: Joseph Lapka, EPA Scientist
Sponsored by: Earthjustice

The EPA is ready to approve a monstrous, 1,500 megawatt coal-fired power plant - without any CO₂ controls - on Navajo land in New Mexico. The Desert Rock coal plant will inundate native communities with health-robbing pollutants that cause asthma and heart attacks and spew 12.7 million tons of CO₂ greenhouse gases into the atmosphere every year.

Desert Rock is a centerpiece of Bush-era plans to spread coal power across the land without regard for its environmental havoc. But thanks to President Obama, the EPA now must listen to what we have to say. This is the chance we all have been waiting for - to be heard!

We only have until February 23 to speak up and help build a groundswell movement in support of controlling this plant's air pollution. Tell the EPA to impose the strictest-possible CO₂ controls - making it the first plant in EPA history to have such limits.

deadline: 2-23-2009
goal: 20,000

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Dear Mr. Lapka,

As you reconsider the air permit for the Desert Rock Energy Facility, I strongly urge that you impose the strictest-available controls on its carbon dioxide emissions.

Without controls, the coal-fired Desert Rock plant will spew an estimated 12.7 million tons of CO₂ into the atmosphere every year, substantially increasing the global warming threat facing our planet. You can greatly ease this threat by making sure that state-of-the art controls are imposed on these emissions.

Moreover, by taking this action now, you will be setting the EPA on a course of action to regulate CO₂ emissions on coal-fired power plants throughout the nation.

I urge you, seize this historic opportunity to start making our nation responsible for what we contribute to this world crisis. You have the power, you have the opportunity -- take it!

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We took action on “Tell the EPA to Control CO2”!

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2:49 pm PST, Feb 24, Cheryl Wagner, California
Please take the name of your institution to heart.

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12:01 am PST, Feb 24, Name not displayed, California
Do it for the children. Do it for the next generation who will have to cope with everything we have done to deteriorate the earth we live on and from. Think about the children.

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11:57 pm PST, Feb 23, Marilyn Bartlett, New York

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11:57 pm PST, Feb 23, Anita Kofta, Wisconsin

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11:40 pm PST, Feb 23, Walter Neal, Iowa

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11:36 pm PST, Feb 23, Keegan-Michael Key, California

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11:35 pm PST, Feb 23, Carol Lapetino, Illinois

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11:33 pm PST, Feb 23, Tim Gardner, New Mexico

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11:33 pm PST, Feb 23, Bonnie Alexander, California
Keep our air as clean as possible. Please do not add any more coal-fired plants.

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11:30 pm PST, Feb 23, Cynthia Blaise, California

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11:27 pm PST, Feb 23, John Fitzgerald, Minnesota

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11:08 pm PST, Feb 23, Ranya Hassan, Illinois
Do you realize the damage this action will have on the health of the communities surrounding your plant? Do you consider your own health? Let alone the health of your children, your families, grandchildren? You have a choice. Make the right one.

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11:07 pm PST, Feb 23, Danny Dubbel, Marshall Islands
I do hope u will not go thru with it, its like saying to a lungcancerpatient, "here, have a smoke"

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11:03 pm PST, Feb 23, Cherida Hivale, India

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10:57 pm PST, Feb 23, Steven Blair, Texas
Comprable European factories manage to contain up to 96% of all pollutants & they still operate at a profit.

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10:51 pm PST, Feb 23, Sarah Palsen, Connecticut

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10:50 pm PST, Feb 23, Ronnie Golden, California

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10:39 pm PST, Feb 23, H. keith mephod Sterzing, Texas

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10:37 pm PST, Feb 23, Tanya Lucci-Harman, California
I am a 32 year old mother of two fantastic kids. Please leave a planet for my children and their children. Haven't we burdened future generations with enough clean up? Please consider the course of this action.

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10:28 pm PST, Feb 23, Louis-Virie Blanche, California
We must absolutely limit the carbon dioxide emissions and focus our attention on the indisputable fact that humanity can have abundant sustainability from the daily income of energy emanating from the Sun.

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10:27 pm PST, Feb 23, Esmee Van Der Oye, California

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10:20 pm PST, Feb 23, Ben Kotcher, Ohio

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10:17 pm PST, Feb 23, Name not displayed, New Jersey

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10:12 pm PST, Feb 23, Robert Knowles, Tennessee

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10:12 pm PST, Feb 23, Jennifer Spielvogel, West Virginia

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10:09 pm PST, Feb 23, Mark Schaffer, Nevada

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10:07 pm PST, Feb 23, Donnah Opelac, California

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10:01 pm PST, Feb 23, Serge Vrabec, Oregon

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10:00 pm PST, Feb 23, Jane Velasquez, California
Please take a stand and start protecting this planet. Impose the strictest CO2 controls. Thank you.

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9:54 pm PST, Feb 23, Joshua Rice, Idaho
Bush Needs His Plans Quickly stopped.

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9:51 pm PST, Feb 23, Anni Minuzzo, California
Surely we can do better than coal for renewable energy resources! Clean coal is an oxymoron.

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9:49 pm PST, Feb 23, Jean Davis, California
the indians know how to live on this planet so you want to dump on them.

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9:43 pm PST, Feb 23, Dominique Marquez, California

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9:42 pm PST, Feb 23, Steve Wold, New Mexico

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9:39 pm PST, Feb 23, Eleanor Garrett, California
You cannot do this! It will completely disrupt the balance of nature, of everything we love about this world. Please don't do this!

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9:32 pm PST, Feb 23, Name not displayed, Washington

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9:24 pm PST, Feb 23, PATTY RORK, New Mexico

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9:16 pm PST, Feb 23, Silky Wylder, Wisconsin

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9:14 pm PST, Feb 23, Jessica Ponticelli, Illinois

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