Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0901291608590.111@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>,
Cyberculture <cyberculture@zacha.org>
Subject: TAKE ACTION: Tell EPA to Control CO2 (fwd)
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:09:10 -0500 (EST)
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:51:09 GMT From: Earthjustice Alerts <action@earthjustice.org> Reply-To: notice-reply-iw67be59fkd63dm@ga-mail.action.earthjustice.org To: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com> Subject: TAKE ACTION: Tell EPA to Control CO2 TAKE ACTION: Tell EPA to Control C02! *********************************************************** Dear Alan, Last year, the Supreme Court said the Environmental Protection Agency could regulate CO2 emissions -- but the Bush-cowed agency refused. In an infamous memo, then-Administrator Stephen Johnson ordered EPA to ignore CO2. This week, President Obama stepped in and told EPA that, after 8 years of political interference, it's time to do its job again -- starting with CO2 gas emissions, the biggest contributor to global warming. *********************************** TAKE ACTION: Tell EPA to Control CO2 http://action.earthjustice.org/campaign/desert_rock_0109/iw67be59fkd63dm? *********************************** The issue at hand is a monstrous, 1,500 megawatt coal-fired power plant that EPA is ready to approve -- without any CO2 controls -- on Navajo land in New Mexico. The Desert Rock coal plant will inundate native communities with health-robbing pollutants that cause asthma and heart attacks, and spew 12.7 million tons of CO2 greenhouse gases into the atmosphere every year. Desert Rock is a centerpiece of Bush-era plans to spread coal power across the land without regard for its environmental havoc. But, we can stop this from happening, and, thanks to President Obama, the EPA now must listen to what we have to say! This is the chance we all have been waiting for -- to be heard! We only have until February 23rd to speak up...So, please, take action now to help build a groundswell movement in support of controlling this plant's air pollution. Tell the EPA to impose the strictest-possible CO2 controls -- making it the first plant in EPA history to have such limits! *********************************** TAKE ACTION: Tell EPA to Control CO2 http://action.earthjustice.org/campaign/desert_rock_0109/iw67be59fkd63dm? *********************************** And while you are at it, tell the new EPA chief, Lisa Jackson, to rescind that Johnson memo so that her agency can start putting CO2 controls on plants throughout the country. With this action, we are just beginning to take back control of our country's environmental protections. Let's start now! - Earthjustice Because the earth needs a good lawyer 426 17th Street, 6th Floor, Oakland CA 94612 P.S. Every voice counts! Please tell a friend to take action! http://action.earthjustice.org/campaign/desert_rock_0109/forward/iw67be59fkd63dm? *********************************** If you cannot click the links in this email, please cut and paste them into your browser window. To modify your email communication preferences, update your personal profile or remove yourself from ALL email lists maintained by Earthjustice, visit your subscription management page at: http://action.earthjustice.org/earthjusticeaction/smp.tcl?nkey=iw67be59fkd63dm& ****************************** This email is Powered by Convio, Inc. http://www.convio.com ******************************