This was emailed to members on June 2, 2014, by Elisabeth MacNamara, President of LWV.

This morning, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) introduced a proposal to set the first-ever limits on carbon pollution from existing power plants. Like the previous proposal to limit carbon pollution from new power plants, this proposal is a game changer that will protect us from the health risks and impacts of climate change.

Take Action: Tell the EPA you support their groundbreaking proposal to limit carbon pollution from existing power plants.

Power plants are responsible for 40 percent of the carbon pollution in the United States—making them the single largest source of carbon pollution in the country. The unlimited dumping of carbon pollution is the chief cause of climate change. 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 EPA’s proposal will protect future generations from unchecked climate change.

Take Action: Submit a public comment in support today!

We have a moral obligation to our children and future generations to address the primary cause of climate change. Currently we limit how much mercury, arsenic, soot and other air pollution power plants can dump into our air, but there are no limits on carbon pollution. We must stand in the way as big polluters continue to drop unlimited amounts of carbon pollution into the air without penalty or regard for the public health impacts on children, seniors and families.

Raise your voice!

Take Action: Tell the EPA you support limiting carbon pollution from power plants.

In League,

Elisabeth MacNamara
President, League of Women Voters

WHAT: Enbridge, the Canadian pipeline company, is seeking a Wisconsin DNR permit to expand its facility in Superior — and TRIPLEthe capacity of their line 61, which runs south from Superior to Delavan, WI, and on to Illinois. The expansion could triple the capacity and includes 3 new storage tanks on Lake Superior, modifying the two existing storage tanks, increasing pumping pressure at 3 stations and installing 9 new pump stations.

WHAT"S AT STAKE: Line 61 crosses through Wisconsin from Superior to Flanagan, IL and will include new pumping stations (in Hawthorne, Ladysmith, Owen, Marshfield, Minong, Stone Lake, Adams, Portage, and Waterloo) and increased pumping pressure at existing stations (Sheldon, Vesper, and Delavan). This puts a number of our water bodies at risk, from Castle Rock Lake, the Rock River, Lake Koshkonong, the Flambeau River, and most importantly, Lake Superior and the Great Lakes, which provide drinking water for 42 million people. A spill could devastate these waterways, and the jobs and economy that depend on them.

Take Action: Please make your public comment on this DNR air pollution construction permit number 13-DCF-129 by email or regular mail by the comment deadline of May 18, 2014.

Email your comments to: Don C. Faith, III, at don.faithiii@wisconsin.gov

Mail your comments to:

Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources,

Bureau of Air Management,

101 S. Webster Street, Box 7921

Madison, WI 53707-7921

Attn: Don C. Faith, III

For more information, please visit http://350madison.wordpress.com/tar-sands/ and http://wisconsin.sierraclub.org/Involve/Line61.asp.

Thanks for your attention to this important issue and your help in keeping our waters and state free of tar sands oil pollution! Mary