Union of Concerned Scientists Support EPA Carbon Pollution Standards

[Trakar]

http://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/epa-hearing-in-chicago-0387.html

UCS and Chicago Community Leaders Speak Out in Support of EPA’s Proposed Carbon Pollution Standard

Local community leaders held a press conference at Kluczynski Plaza today to urge the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to move forward with a federal carbon standard for new power plants. Speakers at the event also highlighted the fact that Chicagoans are taking action in their own communities to fight climate change...

...“We need federal action because it's the cities - like Chicago - who are left holding the bag,” said Alderman Danny Solis of the 25th Ward

...Steve Frenkel, director of the Union of Concerned Scientists’ Midwest office, in Chicago, who moderated the press conference, noted that climate change is already bringing an earlier spring, heavier rains and hotter summers to Chicago.

...“Clean energy standards are already creating jobs in Michigan and around the country,” said Bryan Grochowski, a member of Service Employees International Union Local 517 in Michigan who testified at the Chicago hearing.

...Jennifer Hirsch, senior urban anthropologist at the Field Museum, has worked with organizations throughout Chicago to help implement the region’s climate action plans and strengthen ongoing community work at the same time.

...Rev. Clare Butterfield, the executive director of Faith in Place and the Illinois Interfaith Power & Light Campaign, said Illinois congregations also are taking action. Bridgeview’s Mosque Foundation, for example, now gets all its power from solar energy; Urbana’s St. Matthew Lutheran Church converted 4 acres into a community farm; and Evanston’s Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation built the world’s first LEED certified house of worship

...The proposed standard is the first under the federal Clean Air Act to set national limits on the amount of carbon pollution newly built power plants can emit. The Chicago hearing is one of two national hearings held by EPA to solicit public input on the standard.

...The comment period runs through June 25. With about a month still left, the standard already has generated more comments in support of the rule than any other EPA rule in history

And this just through the Chicago national hearing site! It is heartening to see an informed and critically aware public begin to act in the interest of all.

 

[skookerasbil]

http://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/epa-hearing-in-chicago-0387.html

UCS and Chicago Community Leaders Speak Out in Support of EPA’s Proposed Carbon Pollution Standard

Local community leaders held a press conference at Kluczynski Plaza today to urge the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to move forward with a federal carbon standard for new power plants. Speakers at the event also highlighted the fact that Chicagoans are taking action in their own communities to fight climate change...

...“We need federal action because it's the cities - like Chicago - who are left holding the bag,” said Alderman Danny Solis of the 25th Ward

...Steve Frenkel, director of the Union of Concerned Scientists’ Midwest office, in Chicago, who moderated the press conference, noted that climate change is already bringing an earlier spring, heavier rains and hotter summers to Chicago.

...“Clean energy standards are already creating jobs in Michigan and around the country,” said Bryan Grochowski, a member of Service Employees International Union Local 517 in Michigan who testified at the Chicago hearing.

...Jennifer Hirsch, senior urban anthropologist at the Field Museum, has worked with organizations throughout Chicago to help implement the region’s climate action plans and strengthen ongoing community work at the same time.

...Rev. Clare Butterfield, the executive director of Faith in Place and the Illinois Interfaith Power & Light Campaign, said Illinois congregations also are taking action. Bridgeview’s Mosque Foundation, for example, now gets all its power from solar energy; Urbana’s St. Matthew Lutheran Church converted 4 acres into a community farm; and Evanston’s Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation built the world’s first LEED certified house of worship

...The proposed standard is the first under the federal Clean Air Act to set national limits on the amount of carbon pollution newly built power plants can emit. The Chicago hearing is one of two national hearings held by EPA to solicit public input on the standard.

...The comment period runs through June 25. With about a month still left, the standard already has generated more comments in support of the rule than any other EPA rule in history

And this just through the Chicago national hearing site! It is heartening to see an informed and critically aware public begin to act in the interest of all.

Hmmm..........we're real impressed.

But after November, the EPA is going to get trimmed like a Thanksgiving turkey s0n.


Dont get too excited.

 

[wirebender]

http://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/epa-hearing-in-chicago-0387.html

UCS and Chicago Community Leaders Speak Out in Support of EPA’s Proposed Carbon Pollution Standard

The union of concerned scientists? You really take that bunch seriously? You may as well take your que from the muppets. Oddly enough, I was just reading an article about a member of the union of concerned scientists complete with photos. Here is an example of how thoroughly the union of concerned scientists "vets" its members.

union of concerned scientists.....laughing in your face pal.

Friday Funny – The newest member of the Union of Concerned Scientists | Watts Up With That?

By the way, old rocks claims to be a member of a scientific organization. If he isn't lying, dollars to donuts he is one of Kenji's fellow members of the union of concerned scientists. He has certainly demonstrated that his understanding of the science is about equal to Kenji's.

 

[Trakar]

http://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/epa-hearing-in-chicago-0387.html

UCS and Chicago Community Leaders Speak Out in Support of EPA’s Proposed Carbon Pollution Standard

Local community leaders held a press conference at Kluczynski Plaza today to urge the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to move forward with a federal carbon standard for new power plants. Speakers at the event also highlighted the fact that Chicagoans are taking action in their own communities to fight climate change...

...“We need federal action because it's the cities - like Chicago - who are left holding the bag,” said Alderman Danny Solis of the 25th Ward

...Steve Frenkel, director of the Union of Concerned Scientists’ Midwest office, in Chicago, who moderated the press conference, noted that climate change is already bringing an earlier spring, heavier rains and hotter summers to Chicago.

...“Clean energy standards are already creating jobs in Michigan and around the country,” said Bryan Grochowski, a member of Service Employees International Union Local 517 in Michigan who testified at the Chicago hearing.

...Jennifer Hirsch, senior urban anthropologist at the Field Museum, has worked with organizations throughout Chicago to help implement the region’s climate action plans and strengthen ongoing community work at the same time.

...Rev. Clare Butterfield, the executive director of Faith in Place and the Illinois Interfaith Power & Light Campaign, said Illinois congregations also are taking action. Bridgeview’s Mosque Foundation, for example, now gets all its power from solar energy; Urbana’s St. Matthew Lutheran Church converted 4 acres into a community farm; and Evanston’s Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation built the world’s first LEED certified house of worship

...The proposed standard is the first under the federal Clean Air Act to set national limits on the amount of carbon pollution newly built power plants can emit. The Chicago hearing is one of two national hearings held by EPA to solicit public input on the standard.

...The comment period runs through June 25. With about a month still left, the standard already has generated more comments in support of the rule than any other EPA rule in history

And this just through the Chicago national hearing site! It is heartening to see an informed and critically aware public begin to act in the interest of all.

Hmmm..........we're real impressed.

But after November, the EPA is going to get trimmed like a Thanksgiving turkey s0n.


Dont get too excited.

I have yet to see any of your reckonings or prognostications that I would consider worth getting excited about.

 

[Trakar]

http://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/epa-hearing-in-chicago-0387.html

UCS and Chicago Community Leaders Speak Out in Support of EPA’s Proposed Carbon Pollution Standard

The union of concerned scientists? You really take that bunch seriously? You may as well take your que from the muppets. Oddly enough, I was just reading an article about a member of the union of concerned scientists complete with photos. Here is an example of how thoroughly the union of concerned scientists "vets" its members.
...

What no outrage over the fraud committed?! curious why you'd consider such fraudulent deception to be something worthy of lauding?

Regardless, being a "member" of the UCS merely adds one to the rolls of contributing donors and gains one access to some member archives and websites, it does not make one one of the UCS experts or fellows who make up the body of the organization and give it its organizational rigor and credibility on scientific issues.

The Union of Concerned Scientists is the leading science-based nonprofit working for a healthy environment and a safer world. UCS combines independent scientific research and citizen action to develop innovative, practical solutions and to secure responsible changes in government policy, corporate practices, and consumer choices.

What began as a collaboration between students and faculty members at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1969 is now an alliance of more than 400,000 citizens and scientists. UCS members are people from all walks of life: parents and businesspeople, biologists and physicists, teachers and students. Our achievements over the decades show that thoughtful action based on the best available science can help safeguard our future and the future of our planet...
About Us | Union of Concerned Scientists

UCS Staff List - Staff | Union of Concerned Scientists

UCS Board List - UCS Board Members | Union of Concerned Scientists

 

[whitehall]

The world is bass-ackward to liberals. Cities like Chicago are "left holding the bag" because of government regulations.

 

[Trakar]

The world is bass-ackward to liberals. Cities like Chicago are "left holding the bag" because of government regulations.

If you say so, I don't waste much time on liberals or their confused misunderstandings and beliefs,...but that's just me.

 

[Old Rocks]

The world is bass-ackward to liberals. Cities like Chicago are "left holding the bag" because of government regulations.

If you say so, I don't waste much time on liberals or their confused misunderstandings and beliefs,...but that's just me.

According to Whitey, Westbrook Pegler was a lefty.

 

[Trakar]

The world is bass-ackward to liberals. Cities like Chicago are "left holding the bag" because of government regulations.

If you say so, I don't waste much time on liberals or their confused misunderstandings and beliefs,...but that's just me.

According to Whitey, Westbrook Pegler was a lefty.

Well, better to be thought of as progressive than regressive.

Progressive - Progressivism is a political attitude favoring or advocating changes or reform.

Conservative - Conservatism in general, these are people who want less changes, a stronger central gov't, and fewer individual rights.

Initially the conservatives in our fledgling nation were the party in favor of maintaining union with England. But now we tread rather far from environment and into politics, better to leave those discussions for that forum.

 

[waltky]

Air pollution contributes to premature deaths...

Study: Air Pollution Causes 200,000 Early Deaths in US
August 29, 2013 > Air pollution causes about 200,000 early deaths each year in the United States, according to a new study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Researchers at MIT’s Laboratory for Aviation and the Environment, say emissions from road transportation are the leading single cause of pollution, contributing 53,000 premature deaths, and that electrical power generation causes another 52,000. “In the past five to 10 years, the evidence linking air-pollution exposure to risk of early death has really solidified and gained scientific and political traction,” says Steven Barrett, an assistant professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT. “There’s a realization that air pollution is a major problem in any city, and there’s a desire to do something about it.”

Baltimore, Maryland, was the city with the highest emissions-related death rate in the United States, with 130 out of every 100,000 deaths likely caused by exposure to air pollution. According to Barrett, a person who dies from air-pollution causes typically dies about a decade earlier than he or she might have otherwise. The study was done using data from the Environmental Protection Agency’s National Emissions Inventory, a catalog of emissions sources nationwide. The data was from 2005, the most recent available.

Smog from smokestacks, diesel engines, automobiles, and other sources of pollution, Los Angeles

That data was divided into sources of pollution: electric power generation; industry; commercial and residential sources; road transportation; marine transportation; and rail transportation. Then, using an air-quality simulation, they were able to determine which source had the greatest impact and in what parts of the country. Most premature deaths -- due to commercial and residential pollution sources, such as heating and cooking emissions -- occurred in densely populated regions along the East and West coasts. Pollution from industrial activities was highest in the Midwest, roughly between Chicago and Detroit, as well as around Philadelphia, Atlanta and Los Angeles. Industrial emissions also peaked along the Gulf Coast region, possibly due to the proximity of the largest oil refineries in the United States.

Pollution from electricity generation still accounted for 52,000 premature deaths annually. The largest impact was seen in the east-central United States and in the Midwest: Eastern power plants tend to use coal with higher sulfur content than Western plants. Southern California had the largest health impact from marine-derived pollution, such as from shipping and port activities, with 3,500 related early deaths. Emissions-related deaths from rail activities were comparatively slight, and spread uniformly across the east-central part of the country and the Midwest. “It was surprising to me just how significant road transportation was,” Barrett said, “especially when you imagine [that] coal-fired power stations are burning relatively dirty fuel.”

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