Tell the Environmental Protection Agency to Make Clean Energy Affordable for All

Clean energy — such as wind and solar — is gaining momentum across the country. And it should be available to everyone, especially low-income communities.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has a program that could mean progress on clean energy and energy efficiency — and they need to hear from you. The Clean Energy Incentive Program is an innovative companion program to the Clean Power Plan, the nation's first-ever limits on global warming emissions from power plants. This program is an opportunity for each state to reward early Clean Power Plan actions — like clean energy projects that benefit low-income neighborhoods.

Right now, the EPA is asking for public comments on the Clean Energy Incentive Program.

We're sending the EPA a message: we want states to opt in so their citizens can enjoy clean energy and more benefits to go to low-income communities. Add your voice today.

This program has a lot of potential — it could pave the way for low-income communities to get more renewable energy and energy efficiency resources. But it's only as strong as we make it.
Docket # EPA-HQ-OAR-2016-0033

Dear Administrator McCarthy,

As a concerned citizen looking to see forward progress in the fight against climate change, I applaud the actions your agency took this June to advance the Clean Power Plan's Clean Energy Incentive Program (CEIP). I strongly support the CEIP's goals of proactive renewable energy and energy efficiency deployment, and commend the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) efforts to continue work on this program.

For too long, too many of our communities have been limited in their access to the benefits of a clean energy economy. At the same time, many of these communities have been forced to bear a disproportionate burden of the harmful environmental and public health impacts of fossil fuel pollution. The EPA rightfully recognizes this injustice in the CEIP with its focus on incentives for clean energy projects providing direct benefits to low-income communities. The CEIP will not by itself right these wrongs, but the program can play a critical role in initiating low-income community energy efficiency and renewable energy projects that will catalyze our nation's transition to a clean energy economy that benefits all members of our population.

Still, the agency can and must go further. Given the significant potential benefits of the CEIP for starting states off on the right foot toward Clean Power Plan compliance, the EPA should make it less simple for states to opt out. Our most vulnerable communities should not be put at risk of being left even further behind; therefore, any states opting out should be required to justify their reasons, and outline how they will otherwise achieve the equity goals so vitally addressed in the CEIP.

In addition, to best ensure our communities in greatest need gain from the CEIP, the EPA should do all that it can to protect and strengthen the program such that the dividends from clean energy investments are available to all.

[your comment here]

I urge you to make the CEIP a stronger plan to bring clean energy to communities that need it most.

Sincerely,

[your name]
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