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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsArizona’s Getting Hotter, But State Leaders Oppose Solutions
Arizonas Getting Hotter, But State Leaders Oppose Solutionsby Jillian Murphy - Guest Contributor, Think Progress
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/05/27/3782277/arizonans-turn-up-the-heat/
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Climate change is driving extreme heat in Arizona and around the world. Carbon pollution from power plants contributes to climate change, making our days and our summers even hotter. Extreme heat is especially dangerous for our health, and can even be fatal. Its estimated that extreme heat could lead to more than 11,000 additional deaths during the summer in 2030, and more than 27,000 additional summer deaths in 2100. High temperatures lead to a buildup of harmful pollution in our air, and for those who suffer from asthma, including more than 175,000 Arizona children, that is a bad recipe.
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To address the threat of climate change, President Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency developed the first-ever limits on carbon pollution from power plants -- the very pollution that drives climate change and dirties our air. Power plants are the biggest source of this pollution -- responsible for 40 percent of the carbon pollution in the United States. The Clean Power Plan aims to reduce this pollution by 32 percent by 2030. The plan sets pollution reduction targets for states and gives them the flexibility to meet those targets in ways that work the best for them, including increasing clean energy development and improving energy efficiency. In so doing, the Clean Power Plan will produce safer, cleaner energy while cutting dangerous carbon pollution, providing huge economic and health benefits to the American people.
The good news is that Arizona has one of the highest potentials for clean energy deployment. A recent study found that 15 existing solar and wind projects combined with several future clean energy projects could provide more than 4,300 megawatts of electric power. This is nearly enough to fully meet Arizonas pollution reduction target set by the Clean Power Plan.
Despite the states clean energy potential and the risks extreme heat poses, Arizonas leaders are fighting climate action. Arizonas Attorney General Mark Brnovich is working to block the Clean Power Plan. In doing so, Brnovich is turning his back on the thousands of Arizonans who struggle with asthma, and more than one million seniors who are especially susceptible to extreme heat. Instead, hes standing up for the goals the polluters who fill his campaign coffers prefer -- unregulated carbon pollution.
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Arizona’s Getting Hotter, But State Leaders Oppose Solutions (Original Post)
applegrove
May 2016
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BlueNoMatterWho
(880 posts)1. Thankfully it's been a pleasant May
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)2. It's time to cut the water off, and let the Colorado roll.
The Gulf of Mexico needs that inflow. No more free ride, Arizona.
marybourg
(12,648 posts)4. And where does your
*non-free ride* water come from?
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)5. Not via a ludicrously expensive canal system that diverts water that should definitely go elsewhere.
The desert is not suitable for that many people. It's time to recognize that reality.
marybourg
(12,648 posts)6. But you don't really know, do you?
marybourg
(12,648 posts)3. Coolest May I remember
since moving here.