Protect Carbon emissions standards! Submit a comment to EPA July 8, 2025

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In 2023, EPA proposed a rule to begin regulating carbon emissions from fossil fuel power plants that have negatively impacted our environment, climate, and health for over 150 years. With your help, we submitted hundreds of comments to make these carbon pollution standards that were finalized last year strong. When fully implemented, EPA’s 2024 rule is expected to yield $270–$370 billion in net climate and health benefits between 2024 and 2047, reducing asthma, lung disease, hospital and emergency room visits, and premature deaths. Now, the Trump administration is trying to roll back this progress in a massive giveaway to polluters.

This proposal would repeal protections that cut carbon pollution from power plants–a major source of the pollution that exacerbates climate change. EPA Administrator, Lee Zeldin, has gone as far to say that power plants are not a significant contributor to climate change. This is categorically false and goes against decades of well established science and research. The United States ranks second among greenhouse gas emitters globally and power generation is only second to transportation as the most carbon emitting sector.

As health professionals, we must push back on disinformation and direct threats to our most vulnerable communities. These rollbacks will expose millions of Americans to more pollution, endanger our health, drive up costs, and accelerate the climate crisis. We cannot let the Trump administration dismantle these life-saving protections. Submit your comment to EPA now!