Tell the EPA — fix your proposed plan to reduce pollution from power plants!

Earlier this year, the EPA announced new standards for power plants run by utility companies across the country. While this is a positive step to curbing pollution from coal plants, the standards would not address an insidious poison — methane from gas-fired plants. Methane is a greenhouse gas 86 times more potent than carbon dioxide in the long term when it comes to driving climate change.

If we don’t have strong EPA rules that address natural gas pollution, we could end up with utility companies merely swapping one poisonous fossil fuel for another instead of switching to clean renewables like solar, wind, and energy conservation. More demand for natural gas would mean more fracking and pipeline projects ripping our communities apart.

More than 5,000 Presente members have already called on the EPA to express their support to reduce carbon pollution from power plants. But if utilities merely switch from one destructive fossil to another, our communities will continue to suffer.

Tell the EPA to fix its proposed plan to reduce pollution from power plants!

The Message

Here's the message to the EPA:

Thank you for using the Clean Air Act to reduce greenhouse gas pollution from our country's power plants. It's an essential move, but your draft plan does not yet achieve the deep cuts Latinos and other communities of color desperately need to protect our health and livelihoods.

The plan should NOT incentivize shifts to using more natural gas over renewables and energy conservation. More demand for natural gas would mean more fracking and pipeline projects ripping our communities apart. Latinos that live near fracking wells already report headaches, nosebleeds, rare cancers, and respiratory diseases associated with oil and gas drilling.

I urge you to adopt standards that contain much stronger targets and make the necessary bold and rapid switch to renewables and energy conservation. Latinos and other communities of color are already on the front lines of climate change pollution and will bear the brunt of devastation as a result of our use of fossil fuels — from more super storms like Sandy and Hurricane Katrina on the East Coast to record droughts and wildfires in the Southwest.

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