Tell EPA: Don't Nuke the Climate!
As reported in Beyond Nuclear's weekly email bulletin on June 5th, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) unveiled President Obama's proposal to curb greenhouse gas emissions causing the climate crisis. Most unfortunately, the Obama administration is attempting to use the proposed new carbon cutting rules to throw a lifeline to sinking atomic reactors.
During the week of July 28th, EPA held a small number of public meetings -- in Washington, D.C., Denver, Atlanta, and Pittsburgh -- to gather public comments on its proposed carbon reduction policy.
Friends of the Earth (FOE) put out talking points, one more focused on the nuclear power implications of EPA's proposed carbon rule, and one more general, for use by those making public comments. Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS) did as well.
Synapse Energy Economics, Inc. has provided analysis, posting slides, as well as the recording of its July 23, 2014 webinar, providing analysis on "111(d): Next Steps for States."
Beyond Nuclear is thankful to our various colleagues for preparing these analyses and talking points on such complex subject matter, as well as to Sara Barczak of Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE) for compiling -- and alerting us to -- them.
What can you do? Provide your own public comments to EPA by its Oct. 16th deadline. Tell EPA: Nukes don't save the climate! Email to <A-and-R-Docket@epa.gov> and include Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2013-0602 in the subject line of your email message.
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350.org, Sierra Club, and other environmental group chapters across the East and Midwest are organizing buses and car pools to get folks to the Sept. 21st People's Climate March in New York City. There is even an effort to charter a train from Washington D.C.! Look for opportunities to jump on board such a caravan near you!
Anti-nuke activists from Michigan are jumping aboard Sierra Club-sponsored buses bound from Ann Arbor.
A Sierra Club-sponsored bus from Columbus, Ohio, is already full, so long-time anti-nuke organizer Mark Stansbery is working to arrange another one from there.
Green Party activist and candidate for public office Joe DeMare of Bowling Green, OH, is organizing a bus from the Toledo area [see below!]. Joe has been a very active ally in the environmental coalition (including Beyond Nuclear) struggle to block a 20-year license extension at FirstEnergy Nuclear's Davis-Besse atomic reactor in N.W. OH.
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As reported by NIRS:
Dear friends in Michigan and Ohio,
This is a quick note to let you know that a Nuclear-Free, Carbon-Free Contingent bus from the Toledo area to New York City has been arranged. Thanks to Joe DeMare for doing this!
Contact Joe at electricity2@cs.com or call/text him at 419-973-5841 for more information and to reserve a seat.
We hope as many of you as possible will join us in NYC September 21!
Note, for those of you in other parts of Michigan and Ohio, there are some other buses being arranged to NYC; you can find those on the People's Climate March transportation page here.
Thanks for all you do,
Michael Mariotte
President
Nuclear Information and Resource Service
www.nirs.org
nirsnet@nirs.org
