From: Mary Anne Hitt, Sierra Club <membership.services@sierraclub.org>
Subject: We Can't "Just Trust" Coal Companies
To: jim_scon@yahoo.com
Date: Monday, April 19, 2010, 9:42 PM

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		Jim, Ask the EPA to Carefully Monitor Leaks from CSS Operations. If we're going to fight global warming pollution, we first need to know where it's coming from. The EPA took a huge step towards holding big polluters accountable when it finalized the first greenhouse gas reporting requirements in October. Now it's time to finish the job. Send a public comment and help the EPA take on big polluters by closing loopholes that could allow coal plants to hide their emissions. Coal is dirty. There is no getting around this simple fact. But the industry wants you to believe that it can reduce its global warming impact by pumping emissions underground and keeping them there through a process called carbon capture and sequestration (CSS). CSS is expensive and largely untested. But if someone does try it, it is vital that we know whether or not the system is leaking. Tell the EPA that it's not enough to just trust that coal plants are cleaning up their act; we must monitor leaks from underground greenhouse gas storage. Under President Obama's direction, the EPA is taking a Big Picture approach to fighting global warming by bringing together the various pieces necessary to create a thorough strategy to tackle climate change. The first step was simply acknowledging the problem after eight years of inaction. Now we need to give the EPA the tools it needs to monitor large sources of global warming pollution. Knowledge is power. Show your public support for a reporting system that will give the EPA the information it needs to fight climate change. Thanks for all that you do to protect the environment. Mary Anne Hitt Sierra Club Big Picture Campaign P.S. Please forward this message and help spread the word to your friends and family! If you do not wish to receive future emails like this, click here to be removed from this type of email contact.

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