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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Ben Jealous

Americans turn up the heat on EPA to cut greenhouse gases

In this Sept. 18, 2021, photo, emissions rise from the smokestacks at the Jeffrey Energy Center coal power plant as the suns sets, near Emmett, Kansas. (AP Photos)

More than one million Americans told the Environmental Protection Agency last week that they aren’t willing to wait any longer.

Their comments insisting that the EPA move forward quickly to cut carbon pollution from new and existing coal and natural gas-burning power plants were delivered in person in Washington by a coalition of a dozen national environmental, environmental justice and public health groups. It reportedly is the most public responses to a proposed environmental rule since President Joe Biden took office.

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