### EPA Clean PowerPlan- comments atthe hearing in Pittsburgh on 8/1/2014 Submit to Docket# EPA-HQ-OAR-2013-0602 Good evening. My name is Gwen Chute. Ilive at 904 Valleyview Road in Mount Lebanon. Iam the Vice Chair ofthe Allegheny Group Sierra Club and Chair oftheir Endangered Species Action Team. I am a retired Registered Nurse with a Masters Degree in Maternal-Child Health Nursing. Iworked for manyyears in myclinical specialtybefore serving for 13 years on the faculty ofthe University ofNorth Dakota School ofNursing and then returning to my home state ofPennsylvania in 1991, where l worked in nursing Education at Magee Womens (sic) and later at Westmoreland Hospital until retiring in 2008. This work has left me with a deep and abiding interest in the health ofwomen and children, but myfocus has broadened, in light ofthe inexorable advances ofclimate change, to concern about the health ofour one and only planet and all its inhabitants. Last October, my husband and l moved from Mount Pleasant in Westmoreland Countyto Mount Lebanon, one ofthe loveliest suburbs ofPittsburgh, in order to be closer to the activities and organizations in which we are involved. We rejoice in the cultural revival ofthe city, and enjoy the arts, sports, and community events that have made Pittsburgh one ofAmerica's most livable cities. The one great detractor

we have found has been the poor quality ofour air. l had never suffered respiratory difficulty in mylife. l was dismayed, then, to begin experiencing difficulty breathing

on many ofour daily walks, to find a thick, ugly layer ofblack "particulate matter" coating our windowsills, and smell the telltale stink ofa coal fired plant wafting over our beautiful neighborhood. Invisible but deadly, the pollutants that compromiseour air quality are being sucked into the lungs ofinfants, children and residents of all ages. No wonder Pittsburgh has one ofthe highest asthma rates in the nation! Given the deplorable air quality that sickens the residents ofthis fair city, I feel! 

### mustsupport the EPA Clean Power Plan with its potential to positively affect the health ofwomen, children, and indeed, all citizens. The urgency ofour current situation vis-a-vis a rapidly warming planet demands support for the plan. To return to the alternative ofdoing nothingwould clearly be folly. That said, I confess to being less than thrilled with the EPA's plan, not because it demands too much, but because it demands far too little and asks it far too late. 

### Itis not a bold plan, but a weak one. Iwould be eager to supporta bolder, stronger plan that would: 1. Cut emissions not only from power plants but all sources ofgreenhouse gas. 2. Target extraction processes, not only ofcoal, butalso ofnatural gas, a process that emits huge amounts ofmethane, a gas which is as much as 80 times more potent a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. 3. Greatly increase the emphasis on and incentivize the developmentand use of sustainable renewable energy sources: wind, solar, geothermal and others. 4. Eliminate rewards for domestic extraction offossil fuels to be shipped

overseas and burned there. This would be a plan Iwould support without reservation. The planetrequires nothingless.