Mondays public comment delivery marks the culmination of two years of grassroots work to put climate change at the forefront of the President and the EPA's agenda. It's a milestone moment that capped months of big actions by supporters at Environmental Action, and weeks of big action and talk from the White House.
"If the EPA doesn't un-frack the rules as written, nobody will remember President Obama as the president who liberated us from coal," said Director Drew Hudson. "They'll remember him as the President who sold us to the frackers."
There are only six days left to submit public comments on what some are calling the boldest stance taken by any president to protect the climate.
A few years ago, Walmart promised to get serious about fighting global warming. They even promised to get 100% of their power from clean, green sources. But Walmart is hiding a dirty secret: They're one of America's largest users of dirty coal electricity. Their U.S. stores use more than 4.2 million tons of coal each year. That's nearly six times as much electricity as the entire U.S. auto industry, at a cost of 8 million metric tonnes of global warming pollution each year.
