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Sixty-six percent of Latinos live in areas where the air is not up to the federal government’s safe air quality standards.
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Article July 31, 2015

Latino Communities Demand Congress, EPA Step Up to Fight Asthma

Latino community advocates visited Washington, D.C. to urge members of Congress and the EPA to craft a strong Clean Power Plan to cut air pollution.

Ulises Alfaro traveled to Washington, D.C. to offer common-sense solutions for the HVAC industry that could help Colorado waste less gas and electricity.
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Article July 30, 2015

Cut Carbon Emissions by Heating and Cooling Your Home the Right Way

A Colorado HVAC specialist gives the straight scoop: Many companies profit from installing fuel-guzzling furnaces and air conditioners.

Ana E. Nobis is an occupational and environmental medicine physician and discusses how the EPA’s plan to cut carbon pollution from power plants is essential to avert the devastating consequences of global warming for our children.
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Article July 27, 2015

Doctor Prescribes a Strong Clean Power Plan for Global Health

The EPA’s plan to cut carbon pollution from power plants is essential to avert the devastating consequences of global warming for our children.

Rev. Gallagher became an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ after a 30 year career as an industrial manufacturing executive. He is now focusing his ministerial efforts toward the escalating global crises of unsustainable economics and ecological destruction.
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Article July 20, 2015

To the EPA: When the Energy Industry Wails, Don’t Back Down

As both a Christian ethicist and a former chemical engineer, reverend and doctor Terry Gallagher knows it’s possible to have strong environmental regulations that keep people safe without crippling American industry.

The Clean Power Plan—a component of the latest update to the Clean Air Act, which began in the 1950s—requires states to reduce their coal power plants’ emissions by 30 percent of 2005 levels, over the next five years.
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Article June 15, 2015

Clean Power Plan Affects Black Quality of Life

Blacks, Latinos and Native Americans disproportionately suffer the effects of air pollution caused by outdated methods of energy production like coal power plants.