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The EPA is planning to repeal critical standards for power plant carbon pollution, the largest industrial source of those emissions (more than 1.5 billion tons emitted each year). This repeal will immediately result in more pollution, illnesses, and premature deaths, while accelerating the climate crisis.
It also exacerbates energy inequity, placing health and financial burdens — from surging medical bills to elevated energy costs — disproportionately on Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities where these facilities are more likely to be located.
This environmental injustice is part of this administration’s broad attack on reasonable climate action. By shifting the true cost of fossil fuels onto vulnerable households, it deepens racial and economic disparities.
The Clean Air Act obligates the EPA to issue standards to reduce emissions from sources that significantly contribute to dangerous air pollution. Repealing these standards without a replacement is an abdication of its legal responsibility to protect public health and ensure an equitable, affordable clean energy transition.
Join us in submitting your comments to the EPA here. Be as personal and direct as possible. Thank you for all you do.
Introduce yourself:
I am a…. or I live…. [Include any other relevant information]
Talking points:
I am writing today in opposition to the rollback of power plant carbon standards.
This proposal stands in direct contradiction to decades of science and established law.
I had hoped Administrator Zeldin, as the first Jewish head of the EPA, would honor a basic tenet of Judaism – pikuach nefesh (saving a life) – and pursue environmental policies that support a more livable future in the face of a fast accelerating climate crisis.
This reckless rollback will do the exact opposite, enabling the nation’s biggest polluters to release more carbon pollution, putting families at greater risk from extreme weather events and worsening air quality, and driving up already soaring energy costs.
At a time when people across the nation are experiencing rapidly worsening climate impacts, the EPA should be doing everything it can to protect communities and our economy. Instead, if this proposal is finalized, it would exacerbate the risks and harms to everyone.
The actions this agency is taking are utterly antithetical to any Jewish value oriented towards the protection of life and safety.
As a person of Jewish faith devoted to safeguarding human life and preserving a livable future for our planet, I urge you to abandon this proposal to gut EPA’s authority to regulate power sector heat-trapping emissions and instead fulfill your obligations to limit health-harming global warming pollution.
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