{"id":18426,"date":"2018-02-21T10:13:38","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T15:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/?p=18426"},"modified":"2018-02-21T19:58:55","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T00:58:55","slug":"mayors-across-the-country-announce-their-opposition-to-repealing-the-clean-power-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2018\/02\/21\/mayors-across-the-country-announce-their-opposition-to-repealing-the-clean-power-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayors across the country announce their opposition to repealing the Clean Power Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11707 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/7\/files\/2015\/11\/power-plant-815799_1280-1024x6831-e1446761895280-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/7\/files\/2015\/11\/power-plant-815799_1280-1024x6831-e1446761895280-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/7\/files\/2015\/11\/power-plant-815799_1280-1024x6831-e1446761895280.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>(EDF\u2019s John Bullock co-authored this post) <\/em><\/p>\n<p>236 U.S. Mayors just added their voices to the growing chorus that opposes rolling back the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edf.org\/clean-power-plan-resources\">Clean Power Plan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The mayors represent more than 51 million Americans from 46 states, Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n<p>They just <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/7\/files\/2018\/02\/Clean-Power-Plan-Comments-Climate-Mayors-2018-2-20.pdf\">sent a letter<\/a> to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt saying:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\">\u201c[W]e strongly oppose the repeal of the Clean Power Plan, which would put our citizens at risk and undermine our efforts to prepare for and protect against the worst impacts of climate change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Clean Power Plan establishes the first-ever nationwide limits on carbon pollution from power plants. It is the most significant measure to address climate change that our country has taken so far.<\/p>\n<p>Pruitt is now trying to roll back the Clean Power Plan, which would be a huge retreat from EPA\u2019s duty to protect Americans from the increasingly urgent threat of climate change.<\/p>\n<p>Repealing the Clean Power Plan would rob the public of its <a href=\"https:\/\/19january2017snapshot.epa.gov\/sites\/production\/files\/2015-08\/documents\/cpp-final-rule-ria.pdf\">enormous public health benefits<\/a>. The Clean Power Plan would prevent 3,600 premature deaths, 90,000 childhood asthma attacks, and 300,000 missed school and workdays every year once fully implemented.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/7\/files\/2018\/02\/Clean-Power-Plan-Comments-Climate-Mayors-2018-2-20.pdf\">mayors\u2019 letter<\/a> is just the latest example of the Clean Power Plan\u2019s broad popularity.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/climatecommunication.yale.edu\/visualizations-data\/ycom-us-2016\/\">recent poll<\/a>, almost 70 percent of Americans \u2014 including a majority in <em>every<\/em> Congressional district \u2014 supported setting strict limits on carbon dioxide produced by coal-fired power plants.<\/p>\n<p>And, since Pruitt first proposed repealing the Clean Power Plan, other Americans \u2013 state leaders, public health groups, faith leaders, consumer representatives, and concerned citizens \u2013 have spoken out.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve kept a list of quotes opposing the Clean Power Plan rollback, affirming a commitment to combating climate change, and supporting strong action to invest in clean energy solutions. You can r<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/7\/files\/2018\/02\/Comments-Opposing-Scott-Pruitt.pdf\">ead the full \u2013 and lengthy \u2013 list here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here are just a few of the comments from America\u2019s elected leaders:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cWe already get nearly a third of L.A.\u2019s energy from renewable sources, and we&#8217;re pushing hard to get that number to 100 percent. The Clean Power Plan makes that kind of progress possible everywhere in America, and the President should leave it in place today so that we can build on that momentum\u00a0tomorrow.\u201d \u2013 Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, chair of <a href=\"http:\/\/climatemayors.org\/\">Climate Mayors<\/a> \u2013 the group that organized the letter to EPA.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWe have dramatically cleaner air and we are saving money. My question to the EPA would be, \u2018Which part of that don\u2019t you like?\u2019\u201d \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/10\/09\/climate\/clean-power-plan.html?_r=0\">Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Trump Administration\u2019s constant assault on our environment will not diminish Minnesotans\u2019 resolve to build a vibrant clean energy economy.\u201d \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/mn.gov\/governor\/newsroom\/#\/detail\/appId\/1\/id\/314481\">Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Trump Administration&#8217;s move to dismantle the Clean Power Plan is a reckless decision that gives power plant operators free reign to do what they will without any concern for our climate \u2026 Climate change is a profound threat to our planet, and it cannot be wished away by denial. There is no denial here in New York.\u201d \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.governor.ny.gov\/news\/statement-governor-andrew-m-cuomo-162\">New York Governor Andrew Cuomo<\/a><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I am deeply disappointed in the repeal of the Clean Power Plan rule. Oregon will not turn its back on the environment or the thousands of jobs that have been created through the clean energy industry \u2026 [W]e\u2019re stepping up, as the federal government steps down from its leadership role in tackling climate change.&#8221;\u00a0\u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/oregongovernor\/posts\/1940859619505912\">Oregon Governor Kate Brown<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201cPresident Trump has failed his climate IQ test with the repeal of the Clean Power Plan. He is giving up on the economic opportunity that would be unleashed by deploying clean energy technologies in every state of the union.\u201d \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markey.senate.gov\/news\/press-releases\/senator-markey-trump-fails-climate-iq-test-with-repeal-of-clean-power-plan\">Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201cProtecting our environment is critical to our people, businesses &amp; way of life in NH. Scrapping the Clean Power Plan is completely backward.\u201d \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenatorHassan\/status\/917800925103837185\">Senator Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201cWe should meet the challenge of taking on climate change with a state-federal partnership to cut carbon pollution, not walk away from it.\u201d \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenatorBaldwin\/status\/917838512644415489\">Senator Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201cAt the heart of today\u2019s Clean Power Plan decision is one of the cruelest deceptions perpetrated in politics today: telling the American people that clean air protections are responsible for reduced demand for coal and that getting rid of those protections will create tens of thousands of coal jobs. Both are false.\u201d &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepJohnYarmuth\/status\/917846906805645312\">Representative John Yarmuth of Kentucky<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201cBy repealing the #CleanPowerPlan, the Trump administration jeopardizes our health &amp; safety, economic competitiveness, &amp; global leadership.\u201d \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CongBoyle\/status\/917825025172037632\">Representative Brendan Boyle of Pennsylvania<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201cRescinding the Clean Power Plan will hurt our environment and isolate us on the international stage. The actions today by [Scott Pruitt] do not move us in the right direction toward protecting the planet for our grandchildren.\u201d \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepGeneGreen\/status\/917818886422188033\">Representative Gene Green of Texas<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It\u2019s not just elected officials. Here are some notable comments from other experts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cThe Trump administration has mangled the costs and benefits of one of the most significant climate regulations of the Obama years in an effort to justify its repeal \u2026 these methodological contortions are meant to obscure a very basic truth: that any \u2018savings\u2019 achieved by rescinding the Clean Power Plan will come at an incredibly high cost to public health and welfare. If the Trump administration is willing to make that trade, it should at least have the courage to admit it.\u201d \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/10\/09\/opinion\/environmental-protection-obama-pruitt.html?_r=0\">Richard Revesz, Dean Emeritus of New York University Law School<\/a>, and Jack Lienke, regulatory policy director at the Institute for Policy Integrity<\/li>\n<li>\u201cIf Trump and Pruitt do succeed in dismantling the Clean Power Plan, people will die. Thousands and thousands of Americans will suffer adverse health effects. And the costs will far outweigh the benefits. Don\u2019t take my word for it, though. Take Scott Pruitt\u2019s. Remarkably, Pruitt\u2019s proposed rollback actually concedes that the health-related costs of abandoning the Clean Power Plan are likely to be staggering.\u201d \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/takecareblog.com\/blog\/epa-defies-its-own-best-analysis-of-the-clean-power-plan\">Eli Savit, Adjunct Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe energy future is renewables.\u00a0That is why I led the American Sustainable Business Council effort to file an amicus brief on behalf of that organization and 23 other business organizations in support of the Clean Power Plan.\u201d \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.verticalresponse.com\/218154\/280290df7e\/TEST\/TEST\/\">Frank Knapp, South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe United States has been a leader in environmental policies that move our country and the rest of the world forward. The repeal of the Clean Power Plan represents a major step backwards &#8211; one that is deeply harmful to creation and disproportionately unjust to vulnerable groups \u2026 [W]e have a mandate from our Creator to steward the earth well and care for creation. We are also called to love and care for our neighbors as ourselves. Allowing carbon emissions that have been proven harmful to pollute the atmosphere without limit is morally wrong and rationally illogical.\u201d \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/columbancenter.org\/content\/faith-groups-oppose-dismantling-clean-power-plan\"> Reginald Smith, Christian Reformed Church<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201cFaithfulness to these commands in a warming world requires that we care for God&#8217;s good world and that we show compassion to those whose very lives are threatened by a changing climate. If our political leaders, many of whom confess our faith, will not take the action necessary to respond to these commands, then the rest of us will.&#8221; \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/columbancenter.org\/content\/faith-groups-oppose-dismantling-clean-power-plan\">Kyle Meyaard-Schaap, Young Evangelicals for Climate Action<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe decision to repeal the Clean Power Plan is a direct attack on our health. In the face of this atrocity, our most vulnerable communities will suffer increased adverse health effects from power plant pollution.\u201d \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weact.org\/2017\/10\/cpp-repeal\/\"> Adrienne Hollis, WE ACT for Environmental Justice<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe League is appalled at this irresponsible decision that will have a long-term devastating impact on our planet and health of the American people.\u201d \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/lwv.org\/press-releases\/league-statement-epa-clean-power-plan-repeal\">Chris Carson, president of the League of Women Voters<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201cRepealing the rule \u2026 is a historic step backward. But it\u2019s just the latest move from an administration singularly hostile to environmental and climate protections. Like the decision to leave the Paris Agreement, the White House\u2019s action signals to the world that the United States is unwilling to take the responsibility that comes with being one of the planet\u2019s largest carbon emitters. Nor does it seem like the White House is willing to acknowledge the economic opportunities that come with climate action.\u201d \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/appvoices.org\/2017\/10\/10\/a-historic-step-backward\/\">Brian Sewell, Appalachian Voices<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe rollback of the Clean Power Plan (CPP) represents one of the biggest policy errors of this still-young administration \u2014 which is saying a lot, considering the record. The action holds out the false promise that the government can save a dying industry by defying common-sense rules to curb harmful emissions from coal-fired plants. That\u2019s like trying to stop the sun from shining or the tide from rolling in.\u201d \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/opinion\/editorials\/article178193601.html\">Miami Herald Editorial Board<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>(This post was updated on 3\/21\/18)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(EDF\u2019s John Bullock co-authored this post) 236 U.S. Mayors just added their voices to the growing chorus that opposes rolling back the Clean Power Plan. The mayors represent more than 51 million Americans from 46 states, Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico. They just sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt saying: \u201c[W]e &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4017,4025,202,8,20,115,44],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-18426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clean-air-act","category-carbon-pollution-standards","category-greenhouse-gas-emissions","category-health","category-news","category-advocates-for-change","category-policy"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mayors across the country announce their opposition to repealing the Clean Power Plan - Climate 411<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2018\/02\/21\/mayors-across-the-country-announce-their-opposition-to-repealing-the-clean-power-plan\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mayors across the country announce their opposition to repealing the Clean Power Plan - Climate 411\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"(EDF\u2019s John Bullock co-authored this post) 236 U.S. Mayors just added their voices to the growing chorus that opposes rolling back the Clean Power Plan. 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