Letter to the Editor: EPA's Carbon-Pollution Standards Good for Michigan

To the Editor:

I was pleased when the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed a carbon pollution standard for new power plants. These new standards are an important step in the fight against climate change that President Obama foreshadowed in a critical speech just a few months ago.

Climate change is the greatest environmental challenge of our lifetime. As the president of the League of Women Voters of Dearborn/Dearborn Heights, I am proud to stand in support of the president’s plan to cut carbon pollution from new power plants and fulfill his commitment to people, not polluters. 

Power plants are the largest emitter of life-threatening carbon pollution in our country and the leading cause of climate change. Carbon pollution has deadly effects on the health of our children, seniors and our environment.

Climate change comes at a high cost to all of us, contributing to more frequent storms and deadly weather that results in billions of dollars of recovery costs for local communities every year.

Reducing the amount of carbon pollution from power plants is a life-saving measure that will protect our children, our nation and the world from the devastating effects of climate change.

The League of Women Voters of Dearborn/Dearborn Heights looks forward to working with the EPA to implement life-saving measures to protect our children, our nation and our world from the damaging effects of climate change.

Betsy Cushman

President

League of Women Voters of Dearborn/Dearborn Heights