1 From: Damewood, Lorene [damewood@ku.edu] Sent: Monday, November 04, 2013 8:41 AM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Energy policy

I want you to consider the long term health effects resulting from the carbon spewing into the atmosphere from the coal-fired power plants in this area. I lived with a coal furnace as a young child, carrying in the coal and carrying out the ashes and cinders. I see the 100 car trains in Olathe transporting coal from Wyoming to LaCygne, which then burn and add pollution in the air. I've lived and worked in smoggy Southern California when we weren't allowed to send the children to the playground. I don't want to see the Midwest looking, feeling and smelling like that. Too many people have asthma to be adding to their woes. I want to see cleaner energy and see it fast. Don't let the foxes guard the power plants and the coal mines. Do your job and protect the environment ; don't sell us short!

Lorene Damewood
1605 E Elm St Olathe, KS 66062
913-839-39022 From: Rick Harlan [ricksongrick@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 04, 2013 6:27 AM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: coal--keep it in the ground

Coal-- keep it in the ground until it's safe, if it ever will be; and economical, hard to believe now, as so-called

a lternative power comes online and scales up.

Coal is unsafe now in 3 ways. 1. When it's mined and what it leaves behind, and the carbon and pollution from extracting it. 2. Transport: must move in open containers because of explosive danger from the dust, which is distributed all along the routes, where transportation tie-ups create more idling engines and carbon pollution. And 3. When coal is burned there is NO clean-coal technology. Pollution emits, creating more greenhouse gas and raising the temperature of the earth our only home.

Thank you. 

### Rick Harlan

r icksongrick@gmail.com
206-271-8871

Bird to Human: I don't sing because I'm happy. I'm happy because I sing!

My life flows on in endless song Amidst earth's lamentation. I hear the real, though far off hymn That hails the new creation Above the tumult and the strife, I hear the music ringing; It sounds an echo in my soul How can I keep from singing?

What though the tempest loudly roars, I hear the truth, it liveth. What though the darkness round me close, Songs in the night it giveth. No storm can shake my inmost calm While to that rock I'm clinging. Since love is lord of Heaven and earth How can I keep from singing?

When tyrants tremble, sick with fear, And hear their death-knell ringing, When friends rejoice both far and near, How can I keep from singing? In prison cell and dungeon vile Our thoughts to them are winging. When friends by shame are undefiled, How can I keep from singing?

[repeat first verse]



### ----------------------------------------------------------------- Pete Seeger helped to make this song fairly well-known in the folk-revival of the 1960’s. He learned it from Doris Plenn, who had it from her North Carolina family. It can be found in SING OUT, Vol 7, No 1, 1957. He changed many of the lyrics, making the song not explicitly religious like the original, written in 1860 by H. W. Lowry. The reference to prison in both could have originally referred to the fate of some abolitionists at the time; a consequence that still holds today for many of us who continue to stand up for truth and love, against domination and violence.3