## Testimony at the EPA Hearing in Atlanta, Georgia July 29, 2014 ',' 

# -,, My name ifTim Darst.

**~am** 

## the Executive Director of Kentucky Interfaith Power & 

## Light. I represent the nearly 3,0QO members at 74 congregations in Kentucky who care for God's creation and care about the people ofthis earth and want a healthyfuture for our children. We support strong carbon safeguards under the Clean Energy Plan.

I bring with me a petition with over 200 signatures from people offaith in Kentucky who applaud strong carbon pollution standardsthat come at a pivotal time when more people than ever have recognized the threat to their health and safetyfrom unregulated pollution. These rules will safeguard our communities, our climate, and our children's future. As people offaith called to care for God's people and creation, especially the most vulnerable, we have a moral obligation to address the profound impacts ofthe waywe use energy.
In addition to protecting our climate, curbing pollution offers many important benefits, including saving lives and reducing health risks to those suffering from heart disease and respiratory ailments such as asthma. Many signing this petition are religious leaders: priests, ministers, religious sisters, and otherfaith leaders who knowthat we cannot continue to pollute God's creation

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## consequences to the health ofthe people ofthis earth.
The Clean Power Plan proposes common sense solutions, and we supportthese first-ever limits on carbon pollution from power plants. Ourcongregations are alreadytaking action, in some cases •\)

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# f~tf' In Kentucky we have some ofthe worst air in the nation due to our more than 90% reliance on coal for electricity. Asthma rates are wreaking havoc on our children. {storyfor asthma}
We cannot continue to burn fossil fuels without having serious health effects that prey upon the most vulnerable ofour population. We need serious energy efficiency measures to reduce the horrible waste we are seeing in this country and particularly in Kentucky. We also need incentives for renewable energy sources like wind, solar, geothermal, and hydroelectric. Strict standards for carbon pollution will move us in the right direction. Kentucky is one ofthe worst states in terms ofthe percentage ofour energywe get from fossil fuels. Consequently we have some ofthe worst air in the nation. As a seventh generation Kentuckian, I believe we need this Clean Power Plan and we don't need to give Kentucky any breaks on it. We need the clean air benefits more than most other states.

## We have a moral obligation to protect ourchildren and future generations from the impacts ofclimate change by addressing the single largest source ofcarbon pollution in ourcountry: power plants. Drawing on the strength and ingenuityofAmerican innovation, the EPA's Clean Power Plan helps drive investment in energy efficiency and clean energy that will powerthe 21st century. The Clean Power Plan means we will never have to choose between healthycommunities and a healthy economy. America will benefit from energy innovation with lowerenergy costs, more diversified and safer energy supplies and cleaner energy. This energy innovation will build newcompanies, createjobs and produce clean energy. Every year, power plants dump more than two billion tons ofdangerous carbon pollution and other toxic pollutants into the air. We currently have limits on mercury, arsenic, particulates and othertoxic pollution from power plants, but there are no federal limits on carbon pollution. With the Clean Power Plan we can finally have that.
For the health ofourchildren and grandchildren, in the interest ofclean airand clean water, so that we can stop the warming ofthe planet, I urge you to implement strong carbon standards to protect God's creation.
Thank you.Kentucky Interfaith Power & light

We applaud strong carbon pollution standards that come at a pivotal time when more people than ever have recognized the threat to their health and safety from unregulated pollution. These rules will safeguard ourcommunities, ourclimate, and our children's future.

As people of faith called to care for God's people and creation, especially the mostvulnerable, we have a moral obligation to address the profound impacts ofthe waywe use energy.
In addition to protecting ourclimate, curbing pollution from power plants offers many important benefits, including saving lives and reducing health risks to those sufferingfrom heart disease and respiratory ailments such as asthma.

First Name Last Name Email Zip State Organization Comment



### 1. Tim Darst timdarst@yahoo.com 4020S KY St. William We need these standards to stop climate change! 

### 2. JP Brantley jpjane@bellsouth.net 40422 KY 

### 3. Celeste flores cfloresOl@bellarmine.edu 40456 KY 

### 4. Kate Davidson lrisprite@gmail.com 40205 KY LPTS 

### 5. Lindsay Sant Lindsaymsant@gmail.com 40206 KY Drepung Gomang 

### 6. Joseph Mitchell jmitchellcp@yahoo.com 40205 KY Earth and Spirit Center 

### 7. Mark Steiner mark.steiner@twc.com 40207 KY Clifton Unitarian 

### 8. Wallace McMullen mcmulw@gmail.com 40206 KY St. Clements Episcopal



### 9. JoY Jamison joyjamison@twc.com 40219 KY Keep upthe good work- and don't let us down. 

### 10. Katherine Thackeray margituu@yahoo.com 40205 KY 

### 11. Barbara Warner bkwarner@windstream.net 40033 KY 12. Susan Classen seclassen@gmail.com 40049 KY 

### 13. Betsy Coffey Bbbramlett@aol.com 

### 40206 KY 14. Andy McDonald andyboeke@yahoo.com 40601 KY 

### 15. Beth Zangari bethmitchellzangari@gmail.com 40222 KY Church ofthe Advent 

### 16. Henson 

### Mary maryhenson14@yahoo.com 40503 KY 

### 17. Terry Huey terry.huey@uky.edu 40522 KY 

### 18. kathleen kaelin kathleenkaelin@gmail.com 40204 KY 

### 19. 

### Mary Love mbloveky@yahoo.com 40031 KY Crescent Hill Presbyterian Church 

### 20. Myrtle Bingham myrtlebingham@gmail.com 

### 40203 KY Central Presbyterian 

### 21. Thomas Meacham tom.meacham@wku.edu 42103 KY 22. 

### J. Milburn Thompson jthompson@bellarmine.edu 

### 40205 KY 23. andrew kang bartlet andrew.kangbartlett@pcusa.org 40202 KY Crescent Hill Presbyterian Church Thank you! 24. Linda Carter linda@wolfordclan.com 40220 KY 25. Lucy Langman fonsvitaeky@aol.com 40207 KY 26. Elwood Sturtevant elwood@tjuc.org 40241 KY Thomas Jefferson Unitarian Church 

### 27. Eileen Downard eileendownard@hotmail.com 

### 40299 KY 28. Amelia Stenger amel'la.stenger@maplemount.org 

### 42356 KY Mount

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### Don Feeney dsmiledesigner@aol.com 

### 30. Peggy Hinds peggychinds@gmail.com



### 31. Thomas Rambo rambot@nku.edu 

### 32. Barbara Warner 

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### 33. Barbara Mercer barb.mercer@louisville.edu 

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### Mays hmays4@bellsouth.net 

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### 36. Ann Marie Quinn amqosf@gmail.com 

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### laura Stricklen laura.stricklen@pcusa.org 

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### Usa May revlisahmay@gmail.com



### 39. Kathleen Lyons kathleenvlyons@gmall.com 

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### Mary Fustlng mfustlng@stbernardlou.com 

### 41. Wilson Dickinson tdickinson@transy.edu 

### 42. Lewis Miller macbeast@att.net

43. Rosemary Cavanaugh rcavanaugh@ascension-parish.com 40217 KY St. William 

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### 40204 KY 40026 KY Shiloh UMC

40202 KY Centerfor Interfaith Relations 40220 KY St. Bernard 

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40220 KY Ascension Catholic Church EPA Thank you for your courage and foresight and compassion for putting in palce strong carbon 

### pollution standards It's the right thing to do. People will be healthier, medical bills decrease ,they will be happier, more creative, more productive, tess likelyto smoke, drink, steal, abuse their children, wives, themselves Our Mother Earth has gently been encouraging us to take much better care of our home The amount offree services that the earth provides for us each year is 30,000,000,000 (that's 30 trillion) FOR FREE ie water, sun, oxygen, removes some Co2,trees beautify the list goes on and on We will make money, save money {to put inmere economic terms) a lot of money ifwe protect the earth and learn from HER Thanks for listening

The new standards are written so that even Kentucky can work with them. The goal is essential for ourfuture.

My Faith teaches thatthe Earth and all that is in it
are sacred because they are loved by God. The Earth is a point ofencounter with the divine and should therefore be treated with reverence.

We are called to be stewards ofthe Earth and all that Inhabit it. By respecting God's creation we say yes to our health and to that ofthe Earth which sustains us. 

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_bg@twc.com psullivanop@gmail.com leslie.lawson@live.com rebecca.barnes@pcusa.org marybethwilliams8@hotmail.com del.ramey@ieee.org 

### Susanscornerl@hotmail.com gg_perk@beIIsouth.net emilyboone@aol.com halida@i nterfaithrelations.org motherellen@ymail.com bartirwin@aol.com srippetoe@earthlink.net edtfarmer@gmail.com Ahhayden@aol.com Bruhe@bellsouth.net Clairemcg@aol.com JandJRoehrig@gmail.com claudia.hayden @rnaplemount.org
sharon.tepe@fuse.net
mcorcoran320@bellsouth.net Farmerjr77@hotmail.com
nancy.givens @wku.edu 

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university of kentucky Church ofthe Epiphany St. Francis ofAssisi Unitarian Universalist- Bowling Green Unitarian Universalist- Bowling Green

St. William

St. William Epiphany

Ursuline Sisters of MountSaintJoseph JeffStreet Baptist

Bridgeport Christian Church

Dominican Sisters of Peace St. William Church Ursuline Sisters of MountSaintJoseph

Sisters ofCharity of Nazareth

WKU Sustainability Programs Development Coordinator

St. Matthews Episcopal Kentucky IPL Church of Christ Union I'm forgetting why I love Kentucky. It is so hard for
me to understand why people think that because
one way of heatingwas more acceptable when we were not yet aware ofthe options, now that we know betterthey have no right to condemn us to unclean air and waterjust to perpetuate a way of life we need to help them change. It is obscene thatthe fossil fuels industry has prevented other ways from having the same opportunityto develop that they have-- and these was won't make us sick which, yes, thankyou very much Sen. McConnell, coal does\

Thankyou 

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### Pemberton alp@alumni.caltech.edu 

### 42503 KY Thomas Jefferson Unitarian 

### no8.o 80. angela lincoln angela.lincoln @ahsrockets.org 

### 40205 KY Assumption High School 

### 19:51.0 81. Rebecca Johnson johnson392708@bellsouth.net 

### 40204 KY 25:43.0 82. Drew Foley bdrewf@yahoo.com 

### 40241 KY 3SO.org 

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### Smither 

### bsmithel@hotmail.com 40206 KY Clifton Unitarian 

### 35:18.0 84. Jerry 

### Hardt jhardt56@gmail.com 

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### 37:25.0 85. Christina 

### liggett liggetcr@miamioh.edu 

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### Wallace 

### kwlangel@yahoo.com 40205 KY St. William 

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### Joetta Venneman jvenneman@scnazarethky.org 

### 40048 KY Sisters ofCharity of Nazareth 

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### 88. Justin Mog justinmog@gmail.com 40204 KY 

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### bandlbomar@yahoo.com 40220 KY St. Matthews Episcopal 

### 35:03.0 91. Janice Downs jdowns@fhclouisville.org 

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us understand that the coal industry is not only an energy dinosaur taking revenge on the climate, but it's ruining our mountains, streams and 

### 92. Judy Schroeder judy.schroeder@metrounitedway.org 40212 KY Good Shepherd Parish communities. 

### 47:28.0 93. Claudia Ramisch hermitstuff@beIIsouth.net 42303 KY Unitarian Universalist 32:48.0 

### 94. Eileen Downard eileendownard@hotmail.com 40299 KY 38:22.0 

### 95. Joy Jamison joyjamison@twc.com 40219 KY 29:28.0 This is not a waron coal, but a search for solutions 

### 96. Sophia Clark srudolph@stpaulchurch.net 40203 KY that can save jobs and our planet 43:11.0 

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### 40223 KY 33:15.0 WKU Sustainability Programs Development 102. Nancy Givens nancy.givens@wku.edu 42104 KY Coordinator 

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### 40205 KY Bardstown Road Presbyterian 44:59.0 104. Geri Collecchia gericolle@aol.com 

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### 49:20.0 108. Marcia Torpey torpey@bellsouth.net 

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### 49:57.0 109. Kitty Darst kjdarst@yahoo.com 

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### 30:37.0 110. Beth Thorpe beth.thorpe@mac.com 

### 40205 KY 46:20.0 111. Jennifer Tran Jannyfer42@yahoo.com 

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As a member and Ky State lay-leaderofthe DOC Green Chalice, it is time we take a stand on responsible energy in Kentucky. We need to consider the impact ofdirty energy sources on all people and the Earth, before profitand big 112. Kim Cowherd GreenKim@fewpb.net 

### 40601 KY economic power drivers. 

### 40:55.0 113. Nancy Walton Nwalton@ihlic.com 

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### 117. Leah Hager

Swinford Ellis MacSwords hhager816@gmail.com

rwsseptima@gmail.com lellis19 @fewpb.net Lcmacs@aol.com 40342 KY

40601 KY 40601 KY 40601 KY I realize KY benefits from cheaper energy rates because of coal but it's past time to start the transition to sustainable sources of energy. Coal mines used to provide a lot ofjobs but they were notgood jobs in terms of pay or employee safety. There are far fewerjobs now. It's time to move up to sustainable energy and decent employment for eastern Kentucky. Itwill be tough in the short run but the longer we put itoffthe harder it will be.

I am willing to pay more for electricity to safeguard the health and safety of my fellow Kentuckians, our land, and ourwater. 2535.0

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