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### !!!Y remarks under the category "The proposal doesn'tgo nearlyfar enough." I can speak to its other shortcomings, but I'll focus on tracking. As itstands, the EPA's proposal simply encourages substituting natural gas forofcoal for electric generation. Yet mounting scientific evidence shows that the natural gas fuel cycle will be as bad orworse for the climate. When you leave Pittsburgh this week, you'll have gathered yourquota of public comments, and you'll have tested the political winds. But I hope you'll take something else back with you to share with Administrator McCarthy and with President Obama. And that's courage. Because this is atimid proposal. At best, it begins to acknowledge that "something" needs to be done. But itdoesn't really challenge our business sector, and itdoesn't offer much hope for escaping the climate catastrophe. Now, Pittsburgh knows something about courage. People here stood up to the armed thugs ofHenry Clay Frick. Ordinary people here have contended with David Roderick, with Don Blankenship and with Aubrey McClendon. We don'tstart off by knuckling underto big money or high-powered politics. For fouryears now, I've been a memberof Marcellus Protest, agrassroots group that worked to pass the first municipal ban on tracking (first in the world as far as we know) in 

### 2010. We have no staff, no annual budget, and no reason to mince words. Some ofour members deliver drinking water to neighbors whose watersupplies have been destroyed; some raise moneyfor airscrubbers, for neighbors who can't breathe in theirown homes; some hold the hands ofneighbors, as they're dying from tracking-related cancers. Marcellus Protest speaks at community meetings, we educate our local officials, we carry petitions doorto-door, we pass the hat. And some ofus have been run offthe roads by hostile gas field workers. We do all this, notfor pay, notfor institutional power-jockeying, but because ourfamilies, our communities, our society, and everything we love is threatened with extinction. We're notdealing in political calculations about what's possible, what's likely to pass, orwho has the votes. We're standing up and inviting ourfellow citizens to do what's necessary to have a chance ofsurviving the climate crisis. EPA's announcement ofthis "Clean Power Plan" has presented our nation aterrible choice, and it's a false choice: between supporting a proposal which does a little bit to address the crisis (and a little bit to make it worse), versus lettingthis proposal be defeated by those who want to do nothing aboutclimate destruction. So the "Big Greens" have to line up behind this proposal, and there's no one but us in the grassroots to advocate forwhat's really needed. Because what we need is a plan that begins to leave carbon in the ground, notjust putting one fossil fuel in place ofanother. We need a plan that tackles extraction, not one thattinkers with domestic consumption while sponsoring exportsto be burned somewhere else. We need a plan thattalks plainly tothe American people about what's at stake here, notthese bland bedtime stories about "carbon pollution"- as if itwerejust one more high-handed government intrusion into our consumer-driven economy. We need a plan that begins to turn thatfossil-fuel economy around, not one that encourages investment in more pipelines, more export terminals, more gas-fired generators, and more and more and more reasons for hearing that "we can't afford" to do whatwe'll have to do in order to make any real progress in the future. So take that message back with you. IfWashington will exertsome leadership, will demonstrate that ourgovernment "gets it," then the grassrootswilljoin with you in fightingfor your proposals. But if you're convinced that this plan is the best thatwe can expect from inside the Beltway, then do this: Go into the office, drop yourgovernment ID badge on your manager's desk, and come on back to Pittsburgh tojoin us. Thank you for listening.