{"id":4330,"date":"2015-04-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weact.org\/updates\/clean-power-plan-is-major-victory\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T19:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T00:55:09","slug":"clean-power-plan-is-major-victory","status":"publish","type":"update","link":"https:\/\/weact.org\/es\/updates\/clean-power-plan-is-major-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Clean Power Plan is Major Victory"},"template":"","class_list":["post-4330","update","type-update","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","update_type-press-release"],"acf":{"details":{"":null,"featured_image":5221,"update_type":[366],"focus_area":false,"authors":false,"abstract":""},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_wysiwyg":{"content":"<p><strong>For Immediate Release<\/strong><br \/>\r\nApril\u00a024, 2015<br \/>\r\nWE ACT for Environmental Justice, 212-961-1000 ext. 320<\/p>\r\n<p>NEW YORK, NY &#8211; After a year of pushback and advocacy done by Environmental and Climate justice groups including the WE ACT for Environmental Justice and the Environmental Justice Forum, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finally agreed to issue guidance on incorporating environmental justice into the clean power plan.<\/p>\r\n<p>The Clean Power Plan (CPP) aims to reduce US carbon emissions to 30% by 2030. While many have hailed President Obama and the EPA for their \u201cbold\u201d action, WE ACT has led the pack of Environmental Justice groups who have long found the plan problematic because of it\u2019s lack of engagement on low and medium income communities of color, who may face higher concentration of pollution in their communities from this plan. Despite several request, President Obama and the EPA didn&#8217;t offer any insight on whether they would make adjustments to consider these groups. Meanwhile WE ACT and others remained active, sending a petition with over 2,000 signatures and expressing concern with the plan and advocating on behalf of EJ communities at public hearings and events.<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Jalonne White-Newsome, Director of Federal Policy at WE ACT for Environmental Justice<\/strong>, was happy to receive this news from the EPA but also warned of caution, saying;<\/p>\r\n<p>\u201cThe EPA\u2019s decision to include guidance for addressing Environmental Justice Concerns in their Clean Power Plan comes as a very welcomed decision, but to mention that you are going to do something is only half the battle. We must still see what this will look like, and if it will truly be effective for the communities we work in. \u201c<\/p>\r\n<p>While climate change is an issue that affects everyone, low and medium income communities of color are usually hit the hardest. In a study done in California from May 1999- September of 2003, researchers found that \u201cfor every 10\u00b0F (5.6\u00b0C) increase in temperature, the percentage of cardiovascular deaths increased by 2.6 percent.\u201d The risk was even higher for the elderly (65 and older), infants, and African Americans. The EPA\u2019s forthcoming EJ guiding document represents the first time the agency has moved towards enshrining EJ protections in the CPP. The April 2nd announcement is a big victory for WE ACT and its coalition partners in the EJ forum.<\/p>\r\n","include_drop_cap":false}}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Clean Power Plan is Major Victory - WE ACT for Environmental Justice<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/weact.org\/es\/updates\/clean-power-plan-is-major-victory\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Clean Power Plan is Major Victory - WE ACT for Environmental Justice\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/weact.org\/es\/updates\/clean-power-plan-is-major-victory\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"WE ACT for Environmental Justice\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-02-17T00:55:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/weact.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Press-Release.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/weact.org\/updates\/clean-power-plan-is-major-victory\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/weact.org\/updates\/clean-power-plan-is-major-victory\/\",\"name\":\"Clean Power Plan is Major Victory - 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