Washington (August 8, 2023) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) joined Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, who led 28 senators, including Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), in a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael S. Regan urging EPA to finalize strong and broadly applicable fossil fuel-fired power plant standards that maximize carbon pollution reductions from all polluting sources as swiftly as possible.
 
“Section 111 of the Clean Air Act directs EPA to protect the public from large pollution sources that significantly contribute to air pollution that endangers public health or welfare, such as power plants’ carbon pollution, which is driving devastating climate change,” the senators wrote. “We reaffirmed and underscored EPA’s authority and obligation to issue these standards for power plants in the Inflation Reduction Act . . . EPA’s rule should build on these resources and ongoing progress, and drive further advances.”
 
Senator Markey and Chairman Carper’s letter was also signed by Senators Schumer, Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), John Fetterman (D-Pa.), Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Gary Peters (D-Mich.), Jack Reed (D-R.I.), Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), Tina Smith (D-Minn.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Peter Welch (D-Vt.), and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.).
 
The full text of the letter is available HERE.

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