Action | Reduce and Cap Carbon Dioxide from Fossil Fuel Fired Electric Power Generating Facilities (Rev. C17) |
Stage | NOIRA |
Comment Period | Ended on 7/26/2017 |
As Virginians, we appreciate the initiative taken by Governor McAuliffe, but we know our work does not stop here. We request that the Department of Environmental Quality use its authority to:
1. Create a rule — based on the strongest available science — that significantly reduces carbon pollution from Virginia’s power plants.
2. Ensure that Virginians — not utilities — benefit from any profits from carbon regulations.
3. Address the disproportionate environmental effects experienced by our most vulnerable communities.
4. Reduce carbon pollution by incentivizing investments in zero-carbon solar, wind and energy efficiency.
Please protect our Land, our waterways and our Air from the increasing pollution of fossil fuels. Please reduce our carbon footprint in Virginia. Please do all that you can in Virginia to reduce our contribution to global warming and rising seas.