To: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
After WV Chemical Spill, Time to Clean Up Dirty Energy
I strongly support limiting industrial carbon pollution from all power plants. Such new clean air standards will protect the health of American families -- especially our kids -- and fight climate change. It’s our obligation to protect our children and future generations.
Why is this important?
I’m from West Virginia, and the recent chemical spill breaks my heart, makes me very angry, and makes me scared for my friends and family. Imagine not being able to give your children a glass of water to drink. Imagine not being able to cook for them, or having to tell them that they can't bathe or brush their teeth because the water will make them sick. Imagine being pregnant and told that the water could be harmful to your pregnancy. It's terrifying.
That’s what happened to tens of thousands of moms in West Virginia, including many of my friends, because a toxic foaming agent used in coal processing, leaked into the Elk River and contaminated the water supply for 300,000 West Virginians, cutting them off from clean water for as many as 10 days. THE RECENT SPILL IS YET ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THE DANGERS OF RELYING ON DIRTY ENERGY!
We all know it's time to make our energy cleaner and safer to protect the health of our families. Power plants produce 40% of our country's carbon pollution, which creates smog and provokes asthma at a time when one in 10 kids have it. There's a proposal to finally limit power plant carbon emissions. Please help me tell the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that American families want cleaner and safer energy to protect our families’ health and sign on to demand cleaner power plants now.
That’s what happened to tens of thousands of moms in West Virginia, including many of my friends, because a toxic foaming agent used in coal processing, leaked into the Elk River and contaminated the water supply for 300,000 West Virginians, cutting them off from clean water for as many as 10 days. THE RECENT SPILL IS YET ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THE DANGERS OF RELYING ON DIRTY ENERGY!
We all know it's time to make our energy cleaner and safer to protect the health of our families. Power plants produce 40% of our country's carbon pollution, which creates smog and provokes asthma at a time when one in 10 kids have it. There's a proposal to finally limit power plant carbon emissions. Please help me tell the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that American families want cleaner and safer energy to protect our families’ health and sign on to demand cleaner power plants now.