The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has announced a listening session to hear what the public thinks of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) proposed standard to limit carbon pollution from coal-fired power plants:
Thursday, Sept. 25, starting at 9:00 a.m.
333 Market Street
Harrisburg, PA
Anyone can speak; you need to register by Monday, Sept. 22. To do so, contact:
Tammey Adams
taadams@pa.gov
717-772-2725
We're sorry to report that the DEP, under the Corbett administration, has been much more negative than we would have wanted in response to the EPA's proposal to limit CO2 from dirty, old, coal-fired power plants, the source of 40 percent of this nation's carbon pollution. This specific proposal is part of President Obama's Clean Power Plan, which PennFuture supports.
You don't need to be an expert on energy or climate change to testify. You simply need to be a citizen concerned about the future we're leaving our kids.
PennFuture will post talking points available for use at the DEP listening session next week -- stay tuned.
Register soon! And please let me know if you've registered so we can connect in Harrisburg on Sept. 25.
Speak out now -- it matters. Really.
Joy Bergey is PennFuture's federal policy director. She's based in Philadelphia, but will be in Harrisburg on September 25. Look for her there.
