EPA Carbon Pollution Standards Hearing 

May 24, 2012 

Washington, D.C. 

My name is Mary Love and I am a resident of Henrico County in the 

State of Virginia 

Good Afternoon Everyone 

I stand before you today praying silently that you will listen with an 

open mind about a young mom who will give birth in two weeks hoping 

her baby will be born healthy. I stand for that grandmother who lives 

three miles from a power plant that gives off industrial pollution 

spewing plant who has breathed polluted air most of her life. I stand to 

be a voice for that little boy or girl who has been in the emergency 

room four times within six months for asthma missing school two to 

three days each time from their illness. I can't forget about that dad 

who has not missed a day from work in ten years trying to be the head 

of the house, but can't, because bad news has come his way .... he has 

cancer, 

Carbon pollution, increasing smog and other nasty waste continues to 

be dumped into our rivers, lakes, creeks, bays and oceans. WOW, only 

if we could turn back the hand of time to a period when these ugly 

pollutants first began infesting our environment. Sadly we can't travel 

back in time. However, we can stand up right now and change these 

harmful practices in their tracks. 
I stand for the young mom who will bury her baby that lived for only 

two days, due to breathing in polluted air, Andrew's father who can 

provide no more, my friend Pat's grandmother who like to check on her 

neighbors in her communities, can't walk two blocks because of lung 

disease. I stand for my co-worker twin boys Jason and Justin who lives 

in a community that is full with smog who would like to have a chance 

to go to college after high school. 

Doctors, scientist and experts say that carbon pollution is dangerous for 

children and seniors because climate change's rising temperatures is 

likely to make smog pollution worse, which will trigger asthma attacks 

and permanently damage and reduce the function of children's lungs. 

I ask that you pick up your pen to write a contract of demands to these 

industrial power plants to begin to bring an end to this polluted 

environment. Let's clean up American around all neighborhoods to be 

a cleaner better place to live 

Power plants that give off carbon pollution threaten our health each 

day. Therefore, we all are dying each day in records number due to air, 

waste and carbon pollution, we stand here today to ask you to put 

yourself in the place of the people living dangerously close to these 

power plants. What would you do if your mother, who hadn't smoked 

a day in her life and had nearly perfect health, suddenly developed lung 

cancer and die? What would you do if your two children began having 

sudden asthma attacks due to the pollution levels in the area? What 

would you do if the job your husband has had since high school was at 

the coal power plant, and as a result his health has consistently 

declined? Think about it, and make the right decision. 
I plead and I urge the Environmental Protection Agency to clean up 

carbon pollution from new old existing power plants because it will 

protect American health young and old. 

fi:!aning up industrial carbon pollution, which fuels global warming will 

spark innovation in clean technologies and create American jobs to 

manufacture, install and operate these technologies. Moderning the 

nation's new power plants to make them more efficient and cleaner 

will create a new generation of green jobs. We've cleaned up air 

pollution in the past, and can do it again. 

I stand for American everywhere