Stop the assault of coal pollution!

[Jane Feldman]

Pls click on the link before and urge the EPA to use first-grade technology to manage nitrogen oxides at Reid Gardner.

     Thank you.

    Jane
PS. Elspeth is one of the Club's two new staff here in Las Vegas. Lynn goya has also been hired on. Vinny has moved to Seattle where he has taken a position with the Western Clean Energy Campaign. He is still fighting coal!

-----Original Message-----
From: Elspeth Cordua, Sierra Club <elspeth...@sierraclub.org>
To: tajainlay <taja...@aol.com>
Sent: Fri, May 4, 2012 8:46 pm
Subject: Stop the assault of coal pollution!

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		Dear Taj, Tell The EPA To Protect Nevadans From Dirty Coal Pollution! The Moapa Band of Paiute Indians live under a daily assault of pollution from the smokestacks at the Reid Gardner coal-fired power plant.1  The EPA has agreed with the state of Nevada, that second-rate technology is good enough to clean up the nitrogen oxides emitted from those four smoke stacks. Not only the Moapa Paiutes, but all their neighbors downwind are affected, including visitors at the Grand Canyon, Zion and Joshua Tree National Parks. Urge the EPA to require the same first-rate modern technology in Nevada that they have required on many other coal plants around the country. The Moapa Paiutes raised awareness of the burden of this terrible pollution with a three-day cultural and healing walk over Earth Day. And again on Thursday the Paiutes testified at an EPA hearing about the health impacts of coal pollution on their reservation from Reid Gardner, including increased respiratory illness, cardiac disease, and even premature death.  Now it's time for all our voices to join in one demand -- that the EPA require the best available technology and dramatically clean up the dangerous coal pollution being pumped into the air. The EPA has a clear obligation to protect both public health and the environment from dangerous pollution created by the Reid Gardner coal plant. Send your message right now! Thank you for adding your voice to making Nevada's air cleaner and the Moapa Paiute people healthier. Elspeth Cordua Beyond Coal Campaign Sierra Club P.S. - Please forward this message to your friends and family after you have taken action! References 1William Anderson, The foul air outside my window, High Country News. October 20, 2011.  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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"We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature’s inexhaustible sources of energy--sun, wind and tide. I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don’t have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that."
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