{"id":5567,"date":"2025-07-09T11:45:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T15:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weact.org\/?post_type=update&p=5567"},"modified":"2025-07-09T13:00:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T17:00:56","slug":"we-act-testimony-for-environmental-protection-agencys-hearing-on-the-carbon-standards-for-power-plants","status":"publish","type":"update","link":"https:\/\/weact.org\/es\/updates\/we-act-testimony-for-environmental-protection-agencys-hearing-on-the-carbon-standards-for-power-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"WE ACT Testimony for Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s Hearing on the Carbon Standards for Power Plants"},"template":"","class_list":["post-5567","update","type-update","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","update_type-press-release","focus_tax-clean-air","focus_tax-climate-justice","focus_tax-energy-justice","person_tax-yosef-robele"],"acf":{"details":{"":null,"featured_image":5221,"update_type":[366],"focus_area":[5,7,6],"authors":[195],"abstract":""},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_hero_links","acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_hero_links":{"title":"","abstract":"","links":null}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_wysiwyg":{"content":"FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/strong>\r\n\r\nJuly 9, 2025\r\n<\/strong>Contact: Ashley Sullivan, 1(917) 837-1183, Ashley.Sullivan@weact.org\r\n\r\nWASHINGTON<\/strong> \u2013 WE ACT for Environmental Justice\u2019s Yosef Robele, Federal Research Manager, testified today at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s public hearing for the proposed rollback of the updated Greenhouse Gas Standards and Guidelines for Fossil Fuel-Fired Power Plants. Read his testimony below:\r\n\r\nTestimony for Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s Hearing on the Greenhouse Gas Standards and Guidelines for Fossil Fuel-Fired Power Plants.<\/strong>\r\n\r\nMonday July 7, 2025<\/strong>\r\n\r\nHello, thank you for the opportunity to testify. My name is Yosef Robele, Federal Policy Manager with WE ACT for Environmental Justice overseeing Energy and Transportation Issues. We convene the Clean Air for the Long Haul<\/strong>,<\/a> a national cohort of environmental justice organizations working together to embed environmental justice in EPA rulemakings in the power and transportation sectors.<\/span>\r\n\r\nTo begin, it is important to acknowledge the intractable nature of racial and ethnic discrimination. That even today in 2025, more than three decades after the publication of Toxic Waste and Race that the impacts of <\/span>redlining, exclusionary zoning practices, explicit racism, and other discriminatory<\/span> practices are evident in permitting practices, policies, and climate-change impacts<\/span><\/a>. The actions being discussed today, unfortunately, fit within that framework, as this rollback of Carbon Standards for power plants is just another one of EPA\u2019s numerous reckless actions to undermine our regulatory systems and give polluters a free pass to pollute in our communities while ignoring the unfolding climate disaster.<\/span>\r\n\r\nToday I am here to speak upon the fact that it is imperative that the EPA continue to regulate carbon emissions from power plants. Despite the EPA\u2019s egregious claims to the contrary, power plants are the <\/span>second largest source<\/span><\/a> of climate pollution in our country, <\/span>pollution that fuels the climate crisis<\/span><\/a>. As you all know the climate crisis disproportionately\u00a0 impacts environmental justice communities like the ones WE ACT and other Clean AIr for the Long Haul members represent. I\u2019d like to use my time here today to highlight just some of these impacts.<\/span>\r\n\r\nAccording to the EPA\u2019s climate vulnerability assessment published in 2021<\/a><\/span>\r\n