Sierra Club's Ben Jealous and National Medical Association's Dr. Doris Browne join climate advocates delivering over one million public comments to EPA
Scoop USA Newspaper|August 18, 2023
Leaders at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) received strong messages in the more than 1 million public comments submitted from Americans across the nation calling for stronger limits on dangerous power plant climate pollution.
Sierra Club's Ben Jealous and National Medical Association's Dr. Doris Browne join climate advocates delivering over one million public comments to EPA

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Black PR Wire) —Organized by the Climate Action Campaign, the hand-delivered comments marked the largest single comment delivery to the EPA for any major rule since the start of the Biden Administration.

“We stand together at a crossroads for the future of a livable climate,” said Sierra Club Executive Director Ben Jealous during the delivery event. Noting the historic number of public comments, he remarked that “each comment represents a voice demanding strong carbon pollution standards for America’s power plants.”

There are over 3,400 fossil fuel-fired power plants in the United States. More than one-quarter of America’s climate pollution comes from power plants and fossil fuels, such as coal and natural gas, the largest source of electricity generation in the United States. Although climate advocates acknowledge that the EPA’s current proposal is a step forward in cutting climate pollution from the power sector, they remain deeply concerned that it does not go far enough

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