From Interfaith Power and Light (http://interfaithpowerandlight.org):
Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), wants to repeal the Clean Power Plan. There is a comment period now and people of faith need to speak up and be counted!
The EPA just held the only public hearing on this critical issue in the heart of coal country. Faith leaders, including those from West Virginia Interfaith Power & Light, spoke in support of the Clean Power Plan because it sets flexible and achievable limits on otherwise unlimited dumping of carbon pollution from power plants into our air and it encourages the development of clean, renewable energy.
Please speak up! Go to http://salsa4.salsalabs.com/o/50836/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=23694 to send a message to the EPA that you oppose any repeal or weakening of the Clean Power Plan.
Michelle Peedin, a staff member from North Carolina IPL was at the hearing this week. She testified, in part: “I will be 24 years old on Friday. So when we take a look at these projections for 30 or 50 years out, God willing, I will be here. I will be alive after many of the current members of the legislature will have passed. I will be alive after many of the current policies will have been put in place for decades. My generation and our families will be living and breathing the repercussions of today’s decisions.”
Others spoke up as well. 72-year-old Stanley Sturgill, who mined coal for decades in Kentucky and now has black lung disease said: “Our health, environment and global climate are actively being destroyed. And it is clear to me that EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt and President Trump are accelerating and cheering on the damage. I have come here today to ask you to stop. For the sake of my grandchildren and yours, I call on you to strengthen, not repeal, the Clean Power Plan. We are still literally dying for you to help us.”
Click here to add your voice and tell Scott Pruitt to protect the people and not the polluters.
People of faith have a moral obligation to care for and protect our children and future generations by addressing the effects of climate change and carbon pollution, especially as they wreak havoc on the poorest and most vulnerable among us. Let’s make the right and moral choice to implement sensible climate solutions that speed the transition to a just and equitable clean energy economy.
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