/'"' ·---......._

**-~** My name i!? Gloria Tatu'J) and I'mjust another person who wants clean air and water and healthyfuture generation. Thank you forthe opportunityto speak in support of reduced carbon emissions from coal plants and ask you to please remove all support for nuclear powerfrom the final version ofthe Clean Power Plan. Nuclear is not clean, safe or cheap. Yourplan ignores nuclear energy's destructive impact on water resources and the enormous amounts oftoxic and radioactive waste it creates from uranium mining to radioactive discharges during routine operations, to 80 thousand tons of radioactive waste that noone knows howto safely store for the thousands ofyears it will remain dangerous to human health and the environment. Your plan does not consider the health cost and environmental consequences ofaccidents like Fukushima and Chernobyl. Radiation is an invisible killer. You can not see, touch, taste orfeel it but the more radiation in the environment the more cancer in the population. We are experiencing a creeping plutocracythat is rapidly eroding ourdemocracy. 

### An energy plutocracy wheredestruction ofthe environment and people's health can be rationalized, justified and ignored.
A system that puts profitsfor dirty and dangerous energy above ourchildren's health. A system thatjustifies tracking which injects toxins into the Earth and poisons ourdrinking 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 nuclearwaste that will contaminate and kill future generations for thousands of years to come. Whateveryou 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 forthe environmental destruction and dead, dying and sick people caused bythe dirty energy industry are not recognized. Now, Iwant to read a portion ofa 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 ofselfdestruction. Powerful technologies are out of control and are threatening thefuture of all life.

This self destructive path has led to the Fukushima nuclear crisis, Gulfoil spill, tarsands devastation, pipeline failures, impacts ofcarbon dioxide emissions and destruction ofground waterthrough hydraulictracking, , to name afew.
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 mustwork in unityto help Mother Earth heal sothat she can bring back balance and harmony for all herchildren.
Iwill submittheirfull statement to you. The Environmental Protection Agency is supposeto protect us. Therefore, Iam asking you to doyourjob and remove all supportfor 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 oldoutdated business model to clean renewals like solar, wind, hydroelectric, conservation. Where people can havejobsthat do not pollute the air, water and soil and make people sick and die.
Renewals will created millions of life sustaining jobs.
Iam asking you to also support returning all the revenue from the carbon tax credit to the people which will provide an economic stimulus.