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<P><EM>This petition was launched on our YouMove platform by Bankwatch, HEAL,
CAN Europe, Europe Beyond Coal, Sandbag and VedvarendeEnergi. We think you might
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<P><BIG>Even the best environmental standards don’t help if our neighbours
ignore them. A lot of the dirty air we breathe comes from coal power
plants just over the borders of the EU.<STRONG> We’re calling on the new
Commission to clean up the air.</STRONG></BIG></P>
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<P><BIG><STRONG>16 of coal-fired power plants in the Western Balkans, just over
the EU border, produce more fine dust and sulphur dioxide than the 250 plants in
the whole EU combined.</STRONG><SMALL><SUP> [1]</SUP></SMALL> It makes us sick,
and the most vulnerable are the most affected: Children, the elderly, and those
who are already ill.</BIG></P>
<P><BIG>These countries already have committed to adopting EU emissions
standards for their coal power plants - which would mean installing technologies
to reduce exhaust fumes. <STRONG>But this is progressing far too slowly, and
it’s costing us dearly.</STRONG> The European Commission can speed the process
up and protect the health of people in the EU and the Balkans alike, by pushing
them to comply with long-agreed emissions standards. </BIG></P>
<P><BIG>The Commission is already politically and financially helping the
Western Balkans with energy policy, and with new commissioners for Energy and
Environment taking office, it has a golden opportunity to shape cleaner,
healthier energy policy in the region. <STRONG>To get the attention of the new
Commission we will: </STRONG></BIG></P>
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<LI><BIG>Publish research in December<SMALL><SUP> [2]</SUP></SMALL> to show
how much Western Balkan countries are failing EU standards for clean
air.</BIG>
<LI><BIG>Bring local activists to Brussels in December to meet representatives
for the new commissioners.</BIG>
<LI><BIG>Secure public awareness and the support of citizens from all over
Europe for our demands through this petition.</BIG> </LI></UL>
<P><BIG>If we stand together we clean up the air we all breathe. </BIG></P>
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<P><BIG><STRONG>There is a dark cloud over Europe.</STRONG> Air pollution from
fossil fuel power plants is taking its toll across the continent on people’s
health and their wallets.<SMALL><SUP> [3]</SUP></SMALL> Nowhere is the threat
more prevalent than in the countries of the Western Balkans, where outdated
power plants are allowed to burn coal and emit pollution at levels not allowed
in the EU.<SMALL><SUP> [4] </SUP></SMALL></BIG></P>
<P><BIG><STRONG>As a result, these power plants are causing every year 3,900
premature deaths, 8,000 cases of bronchitis in children and other chronic
illnesses across the continent.</STRONG> The cost for health systems and
economies in the EU sums up to EUR 5.8 billion.<SMALL><SUP> [5]
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<P><BIG>The European Commission has a responsibility to stop this and protect
all Europeans, and as <STRONG>we have a new group of commissioners we have an
opportunity to encourage them to shape plans for cleaner, healthier air for the
next five years. </STRONG></BIG></P>
<P><BIG>Pollution knows no borders, and some of the worst originates in Europe’s
southeast corner. Let’s stop this together!</BIG></P>
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<P><BIG><STRONG>In recent years local protests have drawn tens of thousands of
people into the streets to demand clean air to breathe.</STRONG> From Tuzla in
Bosnia and Herzegovina to Pristina in Kosovo, people are tired of fossil fuels
poisoning their children.</BIG></P>
<P><BIG>Elected officials have failed to react, so what is needed is a unifying
groundswell from across Europe that says ‘<STRONG>No to pollution, yes to clean
air!</STRONG>’ But while Europeans bear the brunt, the European Commission
remains silent.</BIG></P>
<P><BIG>Let’s change it</BIG></P>
<P><BIG>Marta Tycner (Warschau)</BIG><BR><BIG>Jörg Rohwedder
(Lübeck)</BIG><BR><BIG>Virginia López Calvo (Madrid)</BIG><BR><BIG>Giulio Carini
(Rom)</BIG><BR><BIG>Alexandre Naulot (Marseille)</BIG><BR><BIG>on behalf of the
whole <STRONG>WeMove Europe-Team</STRONG></BIG></P>
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<P>References:<BR>[1]
https:<SPAN>//www.env-health</SPAN>.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Chronic-Coal-Pollution-report.pdf<BR>[2]
The research is drawn up by Bankwatch and will show the compliance with the 2018
emissions ceilings of coal plants<BR>[3] Annex 2, page 40 of
https:<SPAN>//www.env-health</SPAN>.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Chronic-Coal-Pollution-report.pdf<BR>[4]
https:<SPAN>//www.env-health</SPAN>.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Chronic-Coal-Pollution-report.pdf
from page 32<BR>[5]
https:<SPAN>//www.env-health</SPAN>.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Chronic-Coal-Pollution-report.pdf
page 5 and 8</P>
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<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, October 23, 2019 4:02 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> 16 coal plants making us sick</DIV></DIV>
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