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Emily Stevenson / EDF

Emily Stevenson / EDF ... America’s dirtiest power plants are allowed to freely belch carbon pollution without any national limits.

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Peter Burgess

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Emily Stevenson
Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 7:30 AM
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It's hard to believe that America’s dirtiest power plants are allowed to freely belch carbon pollution without any national limits. But this June, we have an opportunity to end the free-to-pollute era.

Peter—

It's hard to believe that America’s dirtiest power plants are allowed to freely belch carbon pollution without any national limits. But this June, we have an opportunity to end the free-to-pollute era.

Will you make a donation to our Climate Action Fund to take on the largest source of carbon pollution in America?

Dirty fossil-fuel-fired power plants are the largest source of carbon pollution in the U.S. And if we’re serious about averting climate catastrophe, it starts with placing national limits on the amount of carbon pollution these power plants can dump into our air.

Last summer, more than 11,000 EDF activists signed a pledge to be a Climate Patriot by demanding national limits on carbon pollution from power plants.

Will you show your climate patriotism by making a donation to support passage of laws that champion strong climate protection?

Before EPA has even had a chance to formally announce their proposed carbon pollution limits for existing power plants, Sen. Inhofe (R-OK), Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), and Sen. Manchin (D-WV) together with Rep. Whitfield (R-KY) have all lined up to preemptively launch legislative attacks over the last two months.

On March 6, we reported in dismay that the so-called 'Electricity Security and Affordability Act,' H.R. 3826, had passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 229 - 183. This outrageous bill would cripple EPA’s authority under the Clean Air Act by creating a giant industry loophole that allows America’s dirtiest power plants to continue dumping unlimited carbon pollution into our air.

Your donation to our Climate Action Fund will fight to keep the bill from passing the Senate, where we can still prevent this dreadful bill from becoming law.

Emily Stevenson
Thank you for fighting with us,

Manager, Online Membership

P.S. Donations to the Climate Action Fund are used exclusively to support or oppose legislation affecting the environment. For this reason, donations to the Climate Action Fund are not tax-deductible—making it more difficult to raise needed funds and making your donation, no matter how small, all the more important. I hope you’ll help us in this critical time by making your contribution today.

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