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STATEMENT OF KRISTIN ROWE-FINKBEINER, Executive Director and CEO, MomsRising, on the Environmental Protection Agency's Proposed Rule to Reduce Power Plant Emissions

June 2, 2014
Maternal Health

Lisa Lederer, 202-371-1996

MomsRising Hails Announcement of Proposed Power Plant Rule as “Bold Step” In Protecting Health of Children, Families, Communities
“MomsRising and our more than one million members across the country applaud and strongly support the proposed rule to reduce power plant emissions. This regulation will improve the health of our children, our families and our communities. Communities across the nation are feeling the negative impacts of carbon pollution, ranging from devastating extreme weather events to air that is unsafe to breathe, resulting in asthma and other respiratory complications.
 
“Today’s announcement is especially good news for our low income families and communities of color, which are disproportionately harmed by the environmental and health effects of climate change. Our nation has a moral obligation to all our children and to all affected communities to take action and reduce carbon pollution.
 
“MomsRising, and moms and their families across the country, stand with the President and the EPA to support this bold step to address a problem that has been putting our health and communities at risk. Not only will strong limits on carbon pollution protect our health and address climate change, they will also spur innovation in clean energy generation and energy efficiency that will power America in the 21st century.”
 

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MomsRising.org is an on-the-ground and online grassroots organization of more than a million people who are working to increase family economic security, decrease discrimination against women and moms, and to build a nation where businesses and families can thrive. Established in 2006, MomsRising and its members are organizing and speaking out to improve public policy and to change the national dialogue on issues that are critically important to America’s families, including criminal justice reform, immigration policy reform, and gun safety. MomsRising is working for paid family and medical leave, affordable, high quality childcare and early learning, and for an end to the wage and hiring discrimination which penalizes women — particularly moms and women of color — and so many others. MomsRising advocates for access to healthy food for all kids, health care for all, earned sick days, and breastfeeding rights so that all children can have a healthy start. MomsRising maintains a Spanish language website: MamásConPoder.org. Sign up online at www.MomsRising.org — and follow us on our blog, and on Twitter and Facebook.