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Climate change’s threats to human health and life are growing. Will you join our latest effort to roll back climate change?
After 20 years of delay, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed new standards to protect us from toxic air pollution including mercury, arsenic, and acid gases. This proposed safeguard would reduce heart attacks, save thousands of lives, and protect the developing brains of fetuses, infants and children.
The pollution comes from coal-fired and oil-fired power plants, which are responsible for half the mercury air pollution and over half the acid gases emitted in the country. The proposed standards would capture 91% of the mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants, 91% of their acid gas emissions, and 53% of their sulfur dioxide emissions.
The standards would also cut particulate matter, thus reducing asthma attacks and other respiratory diseases as well as premature deaths from heart disease, stroke, and lung cancer.
These dramatic improvements in air quality can be attained using already-existing pollution control technologies. In other words, they are technologically proven and readily achievable.
Further delay after so many years of unnecessary loss of life is not acceptable. Please sign on to the linked comments to the EPA. You can edit them to your liking, or add your name and send the comments as-is.
Take Action »Climate change’s threats to human health and life are growing. Will you join our latest effort to roll back climate change?
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