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http://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/epa-hearing-in-chicago-0387.html
UCS and Chicago Community Leaders Speak Out in Support of EPAs Proposed Carbon Pollution Standard
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.
UCS and Chicago Community Leaders Speak Out in Support of EPAs 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 regions 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. Bridgeviews Mosque Foundation, for example, now gets all its power from solar energy; Urbanas St. Matthew Lutheran Church converted 4 acres into a community farm; and Evanstons Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation built the worlds 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.