跟进：哈特福德哮喘全美第八引追问：塞拉俱乐部要求州属议会区供热系统全面改用可再生能源
美国康涅狄格州哈特福德县哈特福德市，环保组织塞拉俱乐部康涅狄格分会10月27日发布声明，把治理哈特福德哮喘问题的诉求具体指向一座州属设施：要求州政府承诺把为州府建筑群供热供冷的「议会区系统」（Capitol Area System）改造为不使用化石燃料的100%可再生能源系统。该组织与本地环境正义领袖、哮喘与过敏基金会及多名州议员10月26日在立法办公大楼举行记者会，讨论哈特福德居高不下的哮喘问题（本站已报道）。
据哮喘与过敏基金会的「哮喘之都」排名，哈特福德在全美100个城市中列第八，哮喘患病率居全国第四。塞拉俱乐部指出，包括议会区系统在内的化石燃料设施与系统排放，是当地空气质量差、哮喘风险高的重要来源。
议会区系统原为一座热电联产电厂，康涅狄格州政府2022年将其购入。该系统目前以甲烷气体为燃料，沿约两英里的回路为十多座州属与私人建筑供热供冷，其中包括州能源与环境保护部（DEEP）与上诉法院。塞拉俱乐部称，该系统需要大修才能继续运行，州政府应以身作则，承诺采用无化石燃料、100%可再生的替代方案。
「哈特福德再次接近『哮喘之都』榜单前列，令人极度难过，」塞拉俱乐部康涅狄格分会组织者艾丽西亚·詹金斯（Alycia Jenkins）说，「几代人以来，我们在这里亲眼看到空气质量差如何让我们的孩子、老人和邻居病情加重。现在是康涅狄格州纠正方向、治理电厂与车辆空气污染的时候了。」
来源：GSM·美国
Follow-Up: Sierra Club Urges Connecticut to Convert Hartford's Capitol Area System to 100 Percent Renewable Energy Over Asthma Concerns
In Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, Sierra Club Connecticut on October 27 spelled out its demand in the city's asthma debate: the state should commit to converting the Capitol Area System, the plant that heats and cools the state government complex, to a fossil-fuel-free, 100 percent renewable solution. The group, joined by local environmental justice leaders, the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America and state elected officials, had held a press conference at the Legislative Office Building on October 26 on Hartford's high asthma rates, as GSM previously reported.
Hartford ranked eighth in the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America's "Asthma Capitals" rankings of 100 U.S. cities, with the nation's fourth-highest asthma prevalence. Sierra Club said pollution from fossil fuel plants and systems, including the Capitol Area System, is a heavy contributor to the city's poor air quality and asthma risk.
The Capitol Area System is a former cogeneration power plant the state purchased in 2022. It currently runs on methane gas, heating and cooling more than a dozen state and private buildings along a two-mile loop, including the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection and the Appellate Court. Sierra Club said the system needs extensive repairs to keep operating and urged the state to lead by example with a renewable replacement.
"It is beyond upsetting to see Hartford once again reach the near top of the Asthma Capitals list," said Alycia Jenkins, a Sierra Club Connecticut organizer. "For generations, we have seen first hand here in our city how poor air quality is making our children, elders, and neighbors sicker. Now is the time for Connecticut to correct course and better address the air pollution from power plants and vehicles."
Source: GSM News
来源：GSM·美国（原文链接）
图片来源：图：康涅狄格州立法办公大楼中庭（10月26日记者会举行地）。照片：Kenneth C. Zirkel，CC BY-SA 4.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Atrium of the Connecticut Legislative Office Building in Hartford, where the October 26 press conference was held. Photo: Kenneth C. Zirkel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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