It's Time To Defend Climate Change Bill

The Senate, perhaps inadvertently, has given the American public a chance to help counter a massive assault by the fossil fuel industry on our nation’s best hope to fight climate change and forge a clean energy future–the American Climate and Energy Security Act.

Earthjustice’s biggest concern is a loophole that exempts coal-burning utilities from changing their ways for at least 15 years. This means that the nation’s biggest single contributor to greenhouse gas emissions can keep on polluting–and expanding–even as other industries are forced to clamp down. As engineered by massive coal industry lobbying, the loophole “grandfathers” in the existing, dirtiest coal plants, making them exempt from CO2 limits under the Clean Air Act. Forty-three new coal plants planned or being built in the next five years would escape the bill’s performance standards.

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