Ex. I am a scientist and I oppose the repeal/replacement/modification of the ‘Clean Water Rule’ because xxxx. Evidence of xxxxx was published in a peer reviewed journal XXXX, Smith et al. 2009.
*** even better if local to your community! E.g. I live in XXXX, where we this regulation is relevant because XXXX.

I am a scientist and citizen in the state of Colorado and believe that the Clean Water Rule is essential to protect water quality at a federal level, especially for states like Indiana, Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Virginia, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, Georgia, North Carolina, and Ohio which were identified as the 10 worst states for water pollution according to the Wasting Our Waterways: Toxic Industrial Pollution and Restoring the Promise of the Clean Water Act by the Environment America Research and Policy Center, published in June 2014. http://environmentamericacenter.org/sites/environment/files/reports/US_wastingwaterways_scrn%20061814_0.pdf.

I am a scientist and a citizen of the state of Colorado and am very concerned about how the clean water rollback will effect my hometown of Fort Collins. The Cathy Fromme Prairie is rare example of presettlement short grass prairie landscape

I oppose the repeal, replacement or modification of the Clean Power Plan. I have lived in the beautiful state of Colorado for almost 20 years. I am a scientist working with the agricultural industry at Colorado State University. In Colorado, we are very aware of the potential economic and health impacts of climate change, especially with respect to water availability. The Colorado Water Board (http://cwcb.state.co.us) has estimated some of the serious threats to water under possible climate change scenarios. Extreme drought threatens the agriculture (e.g. crop productivity) and ski industries, accessibility to water for our communities, and the health of our ecosystems. The Palmer Drought Severity Index (http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/monitoring_and_data/drought.shtml) predicts the most severe soil moisture drought conditions in CO in the coming years. Snowpack has been below-average for more than a decade in all of Colorado’s river basins (http://wwa.colorado.edu/climate/co2014report/Exec_Summary_Climate_Change_CO_Report_2014_FINAL.pdf). Further, an important component to fighting climate change is accessibility of data and scientific information to the public. Our senator Cory Gardner actually supports bipartisan legislation to prevent federal agencies from removing scientific databases from the public.

I oppose repeal, replacement or modification of the Environmental Justice Program of the EPA because this Department is critical to ensure that underserved communities are involved in and deserve equal access to a healthy environment. Specifically, as a resident of Colorado, where affordable, safe, and environmentally friendly housing is becoming rare; the Denver, Colorado / Sun Valley Neighborhood MVD project run through the Environmental Justice Program will be critical in establishing mixed income, net-zero district housing which will not only provide affordable housing, but ensure that it is also environmentally friendly

I oppose repeal, replacement or modification of the Environmental Justice Program of the EPA because this program is instrumental in ensuring that underserved minority communities are educated about the environment and have equal access to a healthy environment in which to live, learn and work. Specifically, I am a scientist in who leads a local (Colorado) outreach program to encourage middle-school girls to get involved in STEM. Our outreach program had several girls attend from the San Luis Valley in Colorado where the Recycle Conejos and Costillos Counties project (made possible by grants involving the Environmental Justice Program) is addressing illegal dumping of waste in this area. This grant involves students (like the girls who attend our program) to help collect data for this program and discuss issues in their local environments. Grants like this help not only to protect these girls from pollutants, but also gives them motivation to get involved and learn about the impact of humans on our environment. It would be a tragedy to eliminate the Environmental Justice Program.

I am a scientist, citizen, and a mother writing to you from the State of Colorado. I am commenting on the proposal to reduce fuel economy and fuel standards. America has made great strides in recent years in cleaning up air quality, reducing ozone precursors and smog producing nitrogen oxides. For example, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions across the United States decreased by about 66% and 50%, respectively between 1990 and 2010 (Xing et al. 2013). This has produced tremendous benefits for the elderly, increasing the proportion of people who live to at least 85 years of age (Baccarelli et al. 2016), reduced premature mortality (Wang et al. 2017). It has many other health benefits, such as reducing toxic mercury that bioaccumulates in fish and people, and nitrogen oxide emissions that lead to water pollution and acidification of lakes (Driscoll et al. 2015). It has also increased visibility, something important to a State that is proud of its environment and has a strong tourism economy. Allowing automobile manufacturers to increase tailpipe emissions will reverse these trends, harming human health, contribute to premature deaths, increase Denver’s famous brown cloud, and harm the environment of our mountains. People visit our great state and want to live in Colorado because of its clean air – for these many reasons I urge EPA to keep and even increase the emissions standards for cars, trucks, and other vehicles. Literature cited. Baccarelli, A.A., Hales, N., Burnett, R.T., Jerrett, M., Mix, C., Dockery, D.W. and Pope III, C.A., 2016. Particulate air pollution, exceptional aging, and rates of centenarians: A nationwide analysis of the United States, 1980–2010. Environmental health perspectives, 124(11), p.1744. Driscoll, C.T., Buonocore, J.J., Levy, J.I., Lambert, K.F., Burtraw, D., Reid, S.B., Fakhraei, H. and Schwartz, J., 2015. US power plant carbon standards and clean air and health co-benefits. Nature Climate Change, 5(6), pp.535-540. Wang, J., Xing, J., Mathur, R., Pleim, J.E., Wang, S., Hogrefe, C., Gan, C.M., Wong, D.C. and Hao, J., 2017. Historical trends in PM2. 5-related premature mortality during 1990–2010 across the northern hemisphere. Environmental Health Perspectives, 125(3), p.400. Xing J, Mathur R, Pleim J, Hogrefe C, Gan CM, Wong DC, et al. Observations and modeling of air quality trends over 1990–2010 across the Northern Hemisphere: China, the United States and Europe. Atmos Chem Phys. 2015b;15:2723–2747.

multiple: Clean Water; Diesel Emissions Reduction Act; EPA STAR fellowship; fuel efficiency standards

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