EPA: Stick to Your Timeline to Reduce Global Warming Emissions
With the new Congress unlikely to act on the urgent threat of global warming, we need the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to work quickly to follow through on its commitment to reduce global warming emissions under the Clean Air Act. Starting this month, large new and modified facilities, such as coal-fired power plants, must use the best available energy efficiency technologies to reduce their global warming emissions.
The EPA has also announced a schedule for issuing rules to actually limit emissions from power plants and petroleum refineries -- some of the nation's oldest and dirtiest pollution sources, which account for 40 percent of all U.S. global warming emissions. The EPA plans to finalize the rules by mid to late 2012 and is now accepting public comments on this timeline.
The EPA needs to hear that concerned citizens like you support its timeline and would oppose any further delay.
Urge the EPA to stick to its timeline to reduce global warming emissions!
SUBJECT: Docket ID#: EPA-HQ-OGC-2010-1045
Dear Administrator Jackson,
Thank you for meeting your responsibility under the Clean Air Act by moving to set performance requirements that will limit global warming emissions from power plants and petroleum refineries.
From extreme weather events and longer heat waves to more potent allergy seasons, global warming has a direct impact on our health. The science underscores the fact that we have very little time to begin making the swift and deep reductions in global warming emissions needed to avoid the worst effects of climate change.
In light of the scientific urgency, I appreciate that the EPA is taking the necessary steps to limit these dangerous emissions and fully support the EPA's proposed timeline to limit global warming emissions from power plants and petroleum refineries.
