EPA hearings on the (finally!) proposed Carbon Pollution Standards for Existing Power Plants took place in the last week of July. Remarks by PA IPL supporters vary enormously, and are worth reading. When you’re inspired, submit a written comment of your own.
Good Morning, My name is William Thwing, I am the Pastor of the St. Paul’s UCC, in Johnstown, PA. I am here representing Creation Care Partners, an arm of the Penn West Conference of the UCC which is devoted to Environmental Justice issues and also Greater Johnstown Creation Care, a faith-based organization from the Johnstown area serving to forewarn our citizens to the coming ravages of accelerating Climate Change and preparing them for our Changing Climate.
Human caused Carbon Pollution is the main reason our Climate is warming. Our scientists and political leaders have known about the dangers of out of control atmospheric Carbon Dioxide for over 50 years but they have chosen to do nothing about it until now when it is almost too late. Now, the arctic permafrost is leaking methane like a sieve. Now, holes, the size of football fields on the Siberian Shelf are being blown open by giant methane leaks. Now, the glacial ice of the West Antarctic Shelf and Greenland is slowly sliding into the ocean, threatening to raise sea levels 10 or more feet burying American coastal cities and coastal cities across the planet under the ocean. We, Americans, have known about this for two generations but we are so addicted to the pleasures of over consumption that we have become obese, lazy and foolish. We have allowed the robber barons of the fossil fuel industry to dupe us Continue reading We have transgressed. Now let us do better.