By Lynn Thorp, National Campaigns Director
We’re not the only ones who think climate change is water change. EPA Administrator McCarthy recently noted that the impacts of climate change will affect our water dramatically. That’s just one reason we think President Obama’s November 1
Executive Order about preparing for climate change is so important. This direction to the entire federal government and the appointment of a Task Force on Climate Preparedness and Resilience put in place mechanisms to help us protect people and our natural resources – including water – from the impacts of climate change.
Obviously, preparedness is not our only imperative. The President’s
Climate Action Plan, announced in June, includes many important initiatives to curb global warming pollution. Among them is controlling pollution from the largest stationary source of carbon pollution in our country – coal-fired power plants. Powerful interests are pushing hard to block this common sense program, but that’s yesterday’s approach. We need to welcome the change that will curb climate change and boost our economy.
That’s why Clean Water Action’s Texas Program Director David Foster spoke at EPA’s Dallas “Listening Session” on the power plant proposal on Thursday. David noted that Texas leads the national in carbon emissions but that is also leads the nation in installed wind power and the potential for more clean energy investment. Alex Papeli, Clean Water Action’s Green Justice Campaign Organizer in Boston attended the Monday session with other Boston organization s working on energy and justice issues. You can read his comments
here.
