### 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 ofVirginia Good Afternoon Everyone
I stand before you today praying silentlythatyou will listen with an open mind about ayoung mom who will give birth in two weeks hoping her baby will be born healthy. Istand forthat grandmotherwho lives three miles from a power plantthat gives off industrial pollution spewing plant who has breathed polluted air most of her life. Istand to be avoice forthat little boy or girl who has been in the emergency room fourtimes within six monthsfor asthma missing school two to three days each time from their illness. Ican't forget about that dad who has not missed a dayfrom work in ten years tryingto be the head ofthe 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 ifwe could turn backthe hand oftime to a period when these ugly pollutants first began infesting ourenvironment. Sadly we can'ttravel back in time. However, we can stand up right now and change these harmful practices in theirtracks.Istand forthe 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, myfriend Pat's grandmother who like to check on her neighbors in her communities, can't walktwo blocks because of lung disease. I stand for my co-workertwin boys Jason and Justin who lives in a communitythat 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 likelyto make smog pollution worse, which will trigger asthma attacks and permanently damage and reduce thefunction ofchildren's lungs. I ask that you pick up your pen to write acontract ofdemands to these industrial power plants to begin to bring an end tothis polluted environment. Let's clean upAmerican around all neighborhoods to be
a cleaner better place to live
Power plants that give offcarbon pollution threaten our health each day. Therefore, we all are dying each day in records number dueto air, waste and carbon pollution, we stand here todayto ask you to put yourself in the place ofthe people living dangerously close to these power plants. What would you do ifyour 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 ifyourtwo children began having sudden asthma attacks duetothe pollution levels in the area? What would you do ifthejobyour 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 itwill protect American health young and old. fi:!aning up industrial carbon pollution, which fuels global warmingwill spark innovation in clean technologies and create American jobs to manufacture, install and operatethese technologies. Moderningthe nation's new power plants to make them more efficient and cleaner will create a newgeneration ofgreen jobs. We've cleaned up air pollution in the past, and can do it again.
Istand for American everywhere