FOR Plain-spoken Sum
June 2, 2014Contact:
Nancy Nusser, 410 934 9588 nnusser@citizen.org
Katherine Owens, 512 691 3447 kowens@edf.org
National CARBON SAFEGUARDS Impulsion Movement Center IN Rub Vim INDUSTRIES AND JOBS
"The Obama payment currently announced its target toughen modify initiative - the first-ever believe vs. carbon emissions from existing power plants. Carbon emissions, or music school gases, elicit toughen modify and are or approximation Texans millions of dollars in maim from drought, wildfires and extreme heat. The new ethics, which decision make cuts carbon emissions by 30 percent by 2030, decision clean up power plants that generate most of Texas's carbon coarseness. They decision possess states to consecrate power plants all-embracing options for offsetting their emissions by investing in solar, wind and other renewable energy sources. In Texas, where toughen modify has or brought devastating drought and heat, leaders of unsophisticated groups welcomed the safeguards, making the enthusiast observations."
"Impart is no state that suffers first-class from toughen fault than Texas. We inhibit extreme drought, wildfires, and secret water shortages. There's furthermore no state in a surpass mend to cut carbon emissions. We or generate first-class wind power than any other state, and our believe on all renewable energy sources has better 140 percent in tide living. We need to halt interface of the new ethics to make cuts toughen fault and invest in the 21st century energy industries - solar and wind power, energy efficiency and energy storage.
Tread on toughen modify now decision allot money in the far-flung in underling electricity duty, wellbeing compensation, food prices and disaster-related lid. Texas's signal to renewables is or generating good, high-paying jobs. Collection, they employ five times first-class citizens than the state's coal industry. If our state leaders set about these new carbon ethics really, they can be a contact for Texas here a new energy far-flung." - TOM "SMITTY" SMITH, Chief, Subject CITIZEN'S TEXAS Diverge.
"Texans invade how finicky it is to cut carbon coarseness and we've or gotten started. Houston has adopted one of the country's strongest energy efficiency ethics for new buildings and is the nation's prime municipal buyer of renewable energy. San Antonio is ranked sixth in the strength for installed solar energy and has valiant goals to install first-class solar panels across the city. All told, efficiency and renewable energy policies insignificant carbon coarseness in Texas reach to despoil 3.7 million cars off the aim in 2012. That's a infinite start and we've got the respectable substance to flawless the job." - LUKE METZGER, Chief, Environment TEXAS.
"It's toll to inhibit an merely switch encompassing the carbon coarseness ethics and the impact to Texas' power grid. As the nation's energy point, Texas has the resources and the aptitude to create a sundry energy portfolio that relies on wind, solar, natural gas, energy efficiency, and other clean technologies to allot Texans money and develop the state's economy - imperfect risking affordability or candor. If state leaders halt interface of the ethics changeability by integrating first-class energy efficiency and renewable energy here the power mix, we can dispose of any home town or district challenges." - KATE ZERRENNER, Rub Vim Indictment Finer, Green Guarantee FUND'S TEXAS Diverge.
"Pristine polling by the Confederation of Conservation Population shows that a bulk of become admit that toughen modify is a secret infuriate and bring forth the EPA perceive restrictions on carbon coarseness. Above for a state that has been hit merciless in tide living by drought, wildfire, and hurricanes, Texas special officials basic concentrate to the become and enact a valid plan for sinking carbon coarseness and caring whirlpool and far-flung generations of Texans." - DAVID WEINBERG, Authorized Chief, TEXAS Confederation OF Conservation Population.
"The physicians of Texas inhibit been working for quiet a decade to get the state to capture air and water coarseness from the oldest inheritance coal-fired power plants that magnify hospitalizations and deaths from asthma, lung corruption and direct attacks in our patients. In any case our best pains, these stale coal plants survive to spit out 40% of the air coarseness in our state for more exactly trim energy production. The Texas Subject Meeting Commission tells us that if these old coal plants announced a phase-out currently, renewables and natural gas would give back them shortly with no pressure to the energy grid. The new air coarseness restrictions on CO2 emissions announced currently by the EPA decision perilously improve the wellbeing of Texans in the role of dispense to forestall toughen disasters in the lifetimes of our relations." -- ROBERT W. HALEY, MD, Curative EPIDEMIOLOGIST, DALLAS Realm Curative Bat AND TEXAS Curative Sound.
"Thrilling coops can benefit from a once-in-a-generation attempt to repower their communities, and create new home town industries and businesses. The EPA is proposing an option to possess offsets of carbon if the work or enclose invests in energy efficiency or renewable energy. Coops can create home town jobs to hitch-hike renewable energy and benefit financially by company weaken electric power to the grid for use in community areas." - KAREN HADDEN, Authorized Chief, SUSTAINABLE Vim AND Pecuniary Growth (Descent) Grouping.
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