PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • December 20, 2022
To celebrate the 12 Days of Christmas, the greatest gift the Biden administration could provide this country is robust climate action. Here are positive steps that could be taken for each of the 12 days.
• Issue carbon standards for new power plants.
• Issue carbon standards for existing power plants.
• Issue mercury and air toxics standards.
• Issue a national smog standard.
• Issue a national soot standard.
• Issue a stronger regional haze rule.
• Issue a coal ash rule.
• Finalize the “good neighbor rule.”
• Issue clean car standards.
• Designate Nevada’s Avi Kwa Ame a national monument.
• Designate Castner Range in West Texas a national monument.
• Designate Chumash Heritage a national marine monument.
~ Rev. Richard Killmer, retired Presbyterian minister, Yarmouth