TELL THE EPA NO ON DECLARING GREENHOUSE GASES A POLLUTANT

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The information below was received in an email from Marita, a representative of CARE. Her contact information is: Marita@responsiblenergy.org, fax to 505-281-4962, mail to PO Box 52103, Albuquerque, NM 87181. or Marita at: 505.239.8998. It's your descretion if you choose to leave your personal information.

The email:

Greetings Energy Supporters!

This is a quick alert as I know you are busy!

The news has been filled with commentary about climate change and cap-and-trade. (See George Will's piece in Newsweek.) Meanwhile a much scarier scenario is quietly going through the EPA. They are set to declare greenhouse gases as a pollutant and the management of that is apt to be much worse on the economy and our daily lives than cap-and-trade could ever be.

The EPA is taking public comment with a deadline of June 23--that is next Tuesday! We must do everything we can to stop this madness! Please, please read the instructions below and send them your comments. (In case you think your official comment doesn't matter, please read my most recent op-ed commentary.) Based on the only two options they have given the American public, the choice is between bad and worse. EPA is proposing that greenhouse gases be designated as "harming public health." The only other option, a lesser standard, is "endangering public welfare." I suggest that you send them a letter/fax/email stating that both the options are untenable, but if one has to choose, select "endangering public welfare."

Personally I wonder how greenhouse gases can endanger public "health" or "welfare" when without CO2 all life would cease to exist--plants would die and oxygen would disappear = we would die. But eliminating "greenhouse gases" has become the cause-de-jour.

Would you please follow the instructions below to send your comments to the EPA? (It is not as difficult as the long instructions make it sound. The easieast is e-mail GHG-Endangerment-Docket@epa.gov [copy me] and follow the tips in#2.)

For CARE's fundraising efforts, would you please copy me of whatever you send? I will not share your name or actual documents with the public--though, with your permission, I may use a line or two from your comments in an op-ed or commentary I could write. Copy me at Marita@responsiblenergy.org, fax to 505-281-4962, mail to PO Box 52103, Albuquerque, NM 87181.

Time is of the essence. Please write to the EPA today!

Thanks for CARE-ing!

Marita
505.239.8998

www.responsiblenergy.org

Link to email your comments telling the EPA NO on Proposed Endangerment and Cause or Contribute Findings for Greenhouse Gases under the Clean Air Act:

GHG-Endangerment-Docket@epa.gov

Link to EPA instruction page for public comment:

: http://docs.google.com/View?id=ddwqvm8g_289hdzr2zfm