"Extreme heat, hurricanes, drought, floods and vector borne diseases like Lyme disease and malaria are all worsened by climate change and affecting everyone around the world. Greenhouse gas emissions from power plants are a significant contributor to climate change and we must limit these emissions as soon as possible. We need the EPA to protect the health of ourselves and future generations."

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Gabriel Cisneros, MD, FAAP, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

"For years, the U.S. Department of Defense and our highest civil and military officials have classified climate change as the biggest threat to our national security at home and abroad. We know the unending demand of fossil fuels exacerbates pollution output, increases drought, worsens health conditions, and can be directly linked to the weaponization of war and economic instability. Within this decade Congress and government agencies must reduce US dependence on fossil fuels and dedicate our vast resources to oversee a nation-wide buildout of electrification with clean and renewable energy. As a Pennsylvania State Representative and a retired Air Force Colonel, I pledge my support of the EPA’s carbon pollution standards to reduce emissions from power plants."

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Pennsylvania State Representative Joe Webster, 150th District, Collegeville, Pennsylvania

"The longer we wait to address the climate crisis, the worse the consequences get, and the harder it will be for us to adapt. We should have started decades ago, and we have a lot of lost time to make up for. That’s why we need the strongest possible pollution limits on power plants."

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Tom Schuster, Director, Sierra Club Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania

"Carbon dioxide is the most common greenhouse gas with the longest duration of impact on our climate. The carbon dioxide released today will still be producing heat and the resulting climate changes when our grandchildren reach our age, if they are able to live that long."

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Barbara W. Brandom, MD, Steering Committee Member, Concerned Health Professionals of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania

"EPCAMR would like to see carbon pollution reduced by planting more trees and riparian stream corridors on reclaimed abandoned mine lands across the country. We’d also like to advocate for more development of community-scale and grid-scale solar projects in our coalfield communities to reduce our need for increased fossil fuel extraction. Reclamation of abandoned mine lands can also keep headwater streams that are often pristine from entering the underground mine workings leading to downstream abandoned mine water pollution problems and the increased potential for flooding."

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Bobby Hughes, Executive Director, Eastern Pennsylvania Coalition for Abandoned Mine Reclamation, Pennsylvania

"The preeminent Jewish value is pikuah nefesh, the saving of a life. While it may be hard to see this with our bare eyes, we know that strong regulation of power plants and other pollution sources save lives, and particularly lives of people who live near these polluting sources. This is what it means to be good neighbors. We Pennsylvanians need to count on the EPA and the Biden Administration to be reliable and accountable partners to implement the strongest carbon emission rules possible to protect our health and live out our most important values. This is a moral issue that can’t be ignored." 

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Rabbi Nathan Martin, Congregation Beth Israel, Pennsylvania

"The sacredness of people and planet is a value held in common across many religious traditions. Pennsylvanians of faith want to see bold climate action from President Biden and the EPA. Cutting pollution in the power sector and expanding clean energy efforts is an urgent and moral necessity. It is critical that we see the strongest possible standards enacted to protect our right to clean air and a healthy environment."

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Katie Ruth, Executive Director, Pennsylvania Interfaith Power & Light, Pennsylvania

“By implementing the strongest possible plan to cut climate pollution from power plants as soon as possible, President Biden and U.S. EPA Administrator Michael Regan can keep their promise to cut climate pollution by 2030 and be the strong federal partner our borough needs. It also is critical that in tandem with this rule, the EPA and the whole Biden administration develop additional protections for communities that have historically borne the brunt of deadly pollution from power plants.”

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Brittany Reno, Mayor of Sharpsburg Borough, Pennsylvania

"For far too long, dirty power plants have been allowed to spew global warming pollution into Pennsylvania’s communities, harming our health and fueling the climate crisis. I urge the Biden administration to move swiftly to cut climate pollution from power plants."

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David Masur, Executive Director, PennEnvironment, Pennsylvania

"Pennsylvania’s power generating sector was listed as the third-dirtiest in the country, emitting nearly 80 million metric tons of CO2 in 2021. That was the state’s highest total since 2016 and its rising, according to recent reports. It’s totally unacceptable. The pollution is linked to chronic health ailments and affects environmental justice communities disproportionately. We must protect all the people of our great state. I urge the EPA to enact the strongest coal and gas fired power plant regulations that they can. We must save our people and the planet from carbon pollution that contributes to climate change.”

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Joel Hicks, Councilmember & Chair of the Sustainability & Community Planning Committee, Borough Council, Carlisle, Pennsylvania

“Pennsylvania has one of the dirtiest power sectors in the nation. As we continue to work to transition to a clean energy economy, we must reduce our emissions as a matter of both environmental health and public health. I urge the EPA to enact strong and effective standards to cut carbon pollution from power plants to protect our climate, our communities, and our future.”

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Pennsylvania State Senator Carolyn Comitta, 19th Senate District, Chester County, Co-Chair of the Pennsylvania Legislative Climate Caucus & Minority Chair of the Pennsylvania Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee, Pennsylvania

"Power plants contribute roughly 25% of climate pollution in the U.S. The EPA needs to finalize the strongest possible standards to cut climate pollution from power plants to protect our health & our climate."

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Pennsylvania State Representative Chris Rabb, 200th District, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

“Climate standards are at the intersection of so many issues: a sustainable future, our public health, our economic welfare, and more. We need the right standards to push our industries to prioritize environmental protections and public wellbeing when conducting business. On behalf of my office, my constituency, and my loved ones, I stand in support of the call on the EPA to finalize the strongest possible standards to cut climate pollution from power plants.” 

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Pennsylvania State Senator Amanda Cappelletti, District 17, Delaware & Montgomery Counties, Minority Chair, Pennsylvania Senate State Government Committee, Pennsylvania