To AdministratorLisa Jackson, United States Environmental Protection Agency: From Janet Smith, 555 Chippewa Trail, Carol Stream, IL 60188-1589

Thank you, Ms. Jackson for this opportunity to speak. My name is Janet Smith. I am the volunteer Sierra Club leader ofthe Cool City Coalition in Carol Stream, Illinois, wherewe are working on "local solutions to global warming,
one city at atime". Since 2009 ourcoalition has beenworking togetherwith ourvillage government, park district, public library, schools, businesses and residents to reduce the carbon footprint ofourcommunity. Itis important that everyone do all that weknow howto do to protect ourplanet, and above all, to stabilize the changingclimate. We know trom such reputable scientists such as James Hansen that the climate disruption is already being felt in the increasing severity and frequency ofthe storms, which even Carol Stream has been sutJering The amount ofC02 in the atmosphere and oceans has increased trom around 280 ppm in the late 1800'sto around 392 ppm, and the oceans are becoming so much more acidic trom the increased ofC02 that has been absorbed into the sea water so as tothreaten sea corals and shell bearing sea life.

This March whenwe had 8 days in a row above 80 degrees people were enjoying themselves, but to me it had an eerie feeling. We broke over4000 temperature records
acrossthe United States. Civilization depends on a stabilized climate. Even some ofour highest military leaders have named the changing climate as a national security threat. Crops have failed from the extreme and long droughts in Texas. The USDA climate
zones have beenrevised northward. Strange that USDA can't saythis is climate change, because before they can say that it is really climate change, it must go onfor along time

- perhaps 50 years.
We can'twait for another 50years to be sure that the climate is changing, because the changes are rolling on faster and taster as evidenced in the melting ofthe artie ice and the glaciers that provide the water supply tor major rivers.

Theworkwe have been attemptingto do in ourlocal Cool Cities across the nation is important, but it is not enough. We need a national effort acknowledgement that the climate is changing un-naturally, from increasing human- caused carbon dioxide pollution and other heat trapping emissions as well, in our atmosphere and seas. It is imperative now to worktogether at every level to solve global warming one city at a time and one nation at a timeI We must be leaders, not followers in this effort.

Please Ms. Jackson, Iurgeyou and the USEPA to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from all new fossil fuel-fed powerplants. There are over40 people that I've spoken with, face to tacewithin only the past five days who couldn't comethemselves, but have sent these postcardswith me to present to you. They supporttheEnvironmental Protection Agency and its proposedNew Source Performance Standards. Therewould be many more ifl had more time to do this, but significantly some ofthe first to sign
were my mayor Frank Saverino Sr, and 5 ofthe 6 trustees ofthe Carol Stream Village Board. Thank you Ms. Jackson for what you are tryingto do, and here is our wholehearted support. (Present the postcards.)