Support EPA’s Clean Power Plan

By Megan Shoop, Washington, D.C

Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2014 | 2 a.m.

Excessive flash flooding during the monsoon season could become the new normal in Nevada. This news has been downright scary for Nevadans who could lose their cars or houses to flood waters. But extreme rain and flooding is exactly the sort of weather that climate scientists predict will become more frequent in Nevada unless we reign in the carbon pollution fueling global warming.

We know what we have to do: limit carbon from the largest sources — our power plants — and shift to clean energy like wind and solar.

And that’s just what the Environmental Protection Agency would do under the newly proposed Clean Power Plan.

But instead of letting the EPA do its job, polluters and their allies in Congress are fighting the proposal tooth and nail. Time for Nevadans, along with leaders such as Sen. Harry Reid, to do everything they can to support the EPA’s action.