Greenhouse Gas Assessment for Projects Rulemaking CR-101
Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
Without correcting systemic harms first the US will not succeed in most fixes that are currently needed. Failure will eventually bring us to developing nation status.
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms...↓ that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of communities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible. It would also be found in a future court of law to be a genocide against humanity for failure to protect humanity from climate crisis. Cease and desist from further funding for fossil fuel exploration and infrastructure projects immediately!
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
The current drafting of new rules for evaluating fossil fuel projects is a critical chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for decades. Industry and regulators have long ignored the dir...↓ect connection between health and climate. Yet local health disparities maps make clear that certain communities are systemically harmed, if not targeted, by heavy industry. The disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color give further evidence.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts on Washington communities, and communities potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g., those holding a monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea-level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet.
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of communities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
I am very involved with climate change issues. For the past ten years I have been on the board of Transition Fidalgo & Friends, a group of volunteers working to foster renewable fuels, a healthy environment and sust...↓ainable policies. We are running out of time to make the necessary changes to preserve our planet.
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of communities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
We need to take better care of what is left of our environment, for people, wildlife, marine life, and plant life.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color. Please stop polluting the poorest communities and stop ignoring treaty rights. It's 2021, it's way past time to stop the institutionalized, systematic, bureaucratic, racism and way past time to write new equitable rules.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
As the daughter of a chemist and Rogers High School (Spokane) chemistry teacher, I know how important it is that rulemaking gives us a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too...↓ long.
Polluting industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of communities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparity maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights, which are the original legal agreement. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the responsibility to protect and preserve all natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permitting process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when Washington and the world must reduce emissions as quickly as possible, no proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is admissible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emission of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a future for our planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected by fossil fuel extraction, transport and use. Evidence of communities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy indust...↓ry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible and dangerous.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full life cycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
* Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
* Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
* Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
* Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
* Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
* Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
* When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
* Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet.
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
As a former Santa Rosa Councilwoman and as a grandmother and earth resident it is time for action at the speed and scale needed. This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and un...↓analyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of communities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
Hi:
The new rules must:
= Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights.
= Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
= Include community hea...↓lth assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
= Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
= Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
= Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
= Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
= When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
= Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Thank you.
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
↓
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
My name is Zoey, I’m 20 years old and because of climate change I am not expecting to live past 50. I can’t have children because I’m not sure they’d even reach my age before the world becomes uninhabitable. I study env...↓ironmental science so trust that I know what I’m talking about. The science is indisputable and the number of lives already being impacted is vast. Legislators have real power to help, to be literal planet-saving heroes. There is no time to worry about being elected again or losing funding from corporate organizations. Please take action to support these new rules.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet! Do it for the children, the Global South, and your own ethical standing.
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
We are nearing the edge of a cliff of climate damage that is so severe we cannot recover. My loved ones in Washington will be in harm's way. Help us! Stand up!
This rulemaking is a chance to correct system...↓ic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of communities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color. It's important.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in the Washington State environmental health disparities map, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color. As climate impacts worsen, it is an imperative to strengthen resilience by addressing these disparities.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
The rules should also apply to things like comprehensive plans.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
New rulemaking for fossil fuel projects is a chance to correct systemic harms. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of communities being targeted and/or s...↓ystemically harmed by heavy industry is clear.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights.
*Include community health assessments.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a livable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
I totally support all the points made below, and would like to emphasize the last.... cumulative effects must be addressed and analyzed; it is not sufficient or reasonable for projects to be evaluated on a sta...↓nd alone basis. I live on my farm in the Snoqualmie Valley and over the years so many projects analyzed individually, without regard to the cumulative effects on watershed/ecosystem/community as a whole have created enormous problems. So please... do the things outlined below... in the context of cumulative effects!! Thank you!
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of communities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a primary chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Eviden...↓ce of communities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet! Please stop new fossil fuel extraction.
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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Dear Rulemaking Lead Fran Sant,
This rulemaking is a chance to correct systemic harms that have gone unchecked and unanalyzed for far too long. Industry and regulators have ignored that health and climate impacts are directly connected. Evidence of co...↓mmunities being targeted and/or systemically harmed by heavy industry is clear in our local health disparities maps, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities near polluting industries and distribution lines, and the proximity of current and past toxic industries to Indigenous communities and communities of color.
The new rules must:
*Acknowledge and uphold Treaty rights. Engage in meaningful consultation, and fulfill the trust responsibility to protect and preserve the natural ecosystems and resources.
*Include community health assessments. Understanding the impacts to Washington communities and communities, potentially affected by any part of the project's life cycle, must be a prerequisite to good decision-making by permitting authorities.
*Safeguard communities from inadequate assessments. Create prerequisites that would preclude agencies with conflict of interest, e.g. monetary interest in a project, from being in charge of the permit process as lead SEPA agency. Accountability is critical for ensuring accurate and full analysis.
Ecology’s Greenhouse Gas Assessment (GAP) rule comes at a critical time, as the harm from climate change becomes increasingly evident. Wildfires, decreased snowpack, and sea level rise threaten the very existence of our communities. These harms will fall hardest on the people who already bear a disproportionate share of our environmental burdens.
At a time when WA and the world must dramatically reduce emissions as quickly as possible, any proposal to construct a massive new source of greenhouse gas emissions is irresponsible.
The new rules must also:
*Require a climate test based on the best available science to assess a project’s impacts.
*Require assessment methods of a project’s full lifecycle carbon footprint.
*Include strong, enforceable mitigation requirements grounded in equity and with an aim of reducing emissions.
*When evaluating methane emissions, the more potent 20-year impact value should be used, in recognition of the International Panel on Climate Change identifying a timeline of less than a decade to make the unprecedented changes needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
*Cumulative impacts must be included in the decision-making process, meaning that the emissions of new or revised construction shall not be analyzed by itself, but must include the gross emissions of all emissions in the region with the impacts to the residents.
Please take a stand for justice, healthy communities, and a liveable planet!
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