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My name i!? Gloria Tatu'J) and I'm just another person who 

wants clean air and water and healthy future generation. 

Thank you for the opportunity to speak in support of 

reduced carbon emissions from coal plants and ask you 

to please remove all support for nuclear power from the 

final version of the Clean Power Plan. 

Nuclear is not clean, safe or cheap. Your plan ignores 

nuclear energy's destructive impact on water resources 

and the enormous amounts of toxic and radioactive waste 

it creates from uranium mining to radioactive discharges 

during routine operations, to 80 thousand tons of 

radioactive waste that no one knows how to safely store 

for the thousands of years it will remain dangerous to 

human health and the environment. Your plan does not 

consider the health cost and environmental 

consequences of accidents like Fukushima and 

Chernobyl. 

Radiation is an invisible killer. You can not see, touch, 

taste or feel it but the more radiation in the environment 

the more cancer in the population. 

We are experiencing a creeping plutocracy that is rapidly 

eroding our democracy. An energy plutocracy where 
destruction of the environment and people's health can 

be rationalized, justified and ignored. 

A system that puts profits for dirty and dangerous energy 

above our children's health. A system that justifies 

tracking which injects toxins into the Earth and poisons 

our drinking water. A system that blows up mountains for 

the coal and gives miners black lung disease. A system 

that creates nuclear power that leak tritium into the the 

air, soil and water and causes birth defects and cancer. A 

system that creates more and more nuclear waste that will 

contaminate and kill future generations for thousands of 

years to come. 

Whatever you call this system- it is a system where 

madness rules and spiritual values and connection to the 

Earth and people does not exist and, where responsibility 

for the environmental destruction and dead, dying and 

sick people caused by the dirty energy industry are not 

recognized. 

Now, I want to read a portion of a statement from the 

Indigenous Elders and Medicine Peoples Council 

Statement on Fukushima. 
Not heeding warnings from both Nature and the People of 

the Earth keeps us on the path of self destruction. 

Powerful technologies are out of control and are 

threatening the future of all life. 

This self destructive path has led to the Fukushima 

nuclear crisis, Gulf oil spill, tar sands devastation, pipeline 

failures, impacts of carbon dioxide emissions and 

destruction of ground water through hydraulic tracking, , 

to name a few. 

We are connected to Mother Earth and understand she is 

the source of life, not a resource to be exploited. We must 

stop waging war against Mother Earth and ourselves. We 

must work in unity to help Mother Earth heal so that she 

can bring back balance and harmony for all her children. 

I will submit their full statement to you. 

The Environmental Protection Agency is suppose to 

protect us. Therefore, I am asking you to do your job and 

remove all support for nuclear energy, tracking and coal 

pollution. 

We don't have to continue going down this road of 

self-destruction --it is time to change from the dirty old 
outdated business model to clean renewals like solar, 

wind, hydroelectric, conservation. Where people can 

have jobs that do not pollute the air, water and soil and 

make people sick and die. 

Renewals will created millions of life sustaining jobs. 

I am asking you to also support returning all the revenue 

from the carbon tax credit to the people which will provide 

an economic stimulus.