Protect life-saving air, water and health safeguards!
- by: Sierra Club - Program
- recipient: Environmental Protection Agency
Donald Trump wants to gut the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's ability to enforce essential safeguards for our air, water, and health.
In Executive Orders 13777 and 13783, which together comprise the most sweeping attack on climate action and climate safeguards in U.S. history, Trump directed EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt to identify rules, regulations, and guidance that the Agency could roll back or weaken. Trump and Pruitt think rules that protecting our air and water from pollution like smog and soot, and safeguards that keep harmful chemicals and dangerous toxics out of our communities are a burden. But we know these protections keep us safe.
We must ensure that the EPA continues to develop safeguards based on a rigorous scientific process, not at the request of corporate polluters seeking to boost their profits at the expense of our health and the environment's well-being.
Submit your comment to the EPA, and support clean air, clean water, and healthy communities.
Want to have an even bigger impact? Every comment is good and will be part of the public record, but adding your personal story will be even more effective. Offer a personal comment or statement about why clean air, clean water, and public health protections are important to you or your family.
For example: As someone with asthma, I count on EPA to issue and enforce strong science based rules to protect our air and water, and to safeguard public health.
In Executive Orders 13777 and 13783, which together comprise the most sweeping attack on climate action and climate safeguards in U.S. history, Trump directed EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt to identify rules, regulations, and guidance that the Agency could roll back or weaken. Trump and Pruitt think rules that protecting our air and water from pollution like smog and soot, and safeguards that keep harmful chemicals and dangerous toxics out of our communities are a burden. But we know these protections keep us safe.
We must ensure that the EPA continues to develop safeguards based on a rigorous scientific process, not at the request of corporate polluters seeking to boost their profits at the expense of our health and the environment's well-being.
Submit your comment to the EPA, and support clean air, clean water, and healthy communities.
Want to have an even bigger impact? Every comment is good and will be part of the public record, but adding your personal story will be even more effective. Offer a personal comment or statement about why clean air, clean water, and public health protections are important to you or your family.
For example: As someone with asthma, I count on EPA to issue and enforce strong science based rules to protect our air and water, and to safeguard public health.
Subject Line: Docket No. EPA-HQ-OA-2017-0190
Dear Decisionmaker,
The Environmental Protection Agency's core mission is to protect the environment and safeguard public health. To carry out this mission, the EPA must base its rulemaking in a rigorous scientific process that evaluates public health impacts and medical evidence to inform agency action.
I rely on the EPA to ensure that the air I breathe, the water I drink, and the community in which I live are free from pollution, and that the strongest possible safeguards are in place to protect my health, and the health of my community.
These rules, among others, have a clear impact in my community and must not be weakened or rescinded:
Toxic Wastewater Protections - Coal-fired power plants are the largest source of toxic water pollution in the United States, dumping billions of pounds of pollution into America's rivers, streams, and lakes each year. These pollutants, including lead and mercury can be dangerous to humans and wreak havoc in our watersheds even in very small amounts. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency finalized a rule that will reduce the discharge of toxic pollutants into America's waterways from steam electric power plants by 1.4 billion pounds annually, as well as reduce water withdrawal by 57 billion gallons per year, resulting in an estimated benefit of $463 million per year to Americans across the country and cleaner safer water.
Clean Water Protections – For over a decade, conflicting Supreme Court decisions have caused confusion over which waterways are covered by protections of the Clean Water Act – causing millions of stream miles and acres of wetlands to be at risk of pollution and destruction potentially jeopardizing safe drinking water.
However. the Obama Administration put in place safeguards to restore the Clean Water Act, protecting streams and wetlands from pollution throughout the country. Furthermore, these standards help to protect the drinking water for 1 out of 3 Americans, preserve fish and wildlife habitat, and reduce the risk of flooding.
Clean Air Protections – The EPA must ensure that air quality standards reflect the current body of scientific and medical research. These data clearly indicate that smog pollution limits should be set at 70 ppb (or lower), that we must aggressively cut carbon pollution, and limit air toxics like mercury and acid gases that power plants emit.
Visibility Protections – The EPA's regional haze rule works to reduce the visible and toxic haze that is present in national parks and wilderness areas for much of the year by reducing ozone, nitrogen oxides, sulphur dioxide, carbon dioxide, mercury, and other toxic gas particulates. The rule not only protects public health; it also ensures that our national parks and special places have clearer air free from haze and smog improving the stunning vistas that draw the public to these cherished places
Safeguarding Communities During Startup, Shutdown, and Malfunction – EPA must ensure that that states have plans in strong place to address unrestricted emission of toxic pollution during startup, shutdown, and malfunction periods at emitting facilities and limit the serious health effects in neighboring or downwind communities.
Clean Power Plan – Following judicial review, EPA must ensure the implementation of the Clean Power Plan which regulates carbon dioxide from existing power plants, one of the largest source of carbon pollution in the United States, through clear, consistent, and achievable standards for states. The rule is expected to reduce carbon emissions 32 percent below 2005 levels by 2030, as well as conventional pollutants that cause dangerous smog and soot, in turn avoiding thousands of premature deaths, asthma attacks, heart attacks, and hospital visits.
[Your Comment]
[Your Name]
Sign PetitionSign PetitionDear Decisionmaker,
The Environmental Protection Agency's core mission is to protect the environment and safeguard public health. To carry out this mission, the EPA must base its rulemaking in a rigorous scientific process that evaluates public health impacts and medical evidence to inform agency action.
I rely on the EPA to ensure that the air I breathe, the water I drink, and the community in which I live are free from pollution, and that the strongest possible safeguards are in place to protect my health, and the health of my community.
These rules, among others, have a clear impact in my community and must not be weakened or rescinded:
Toxic Wastewater Protections - Coal-fired power plants are the largest source of toxic water pollution in the United States, dumping billions of pounds of pollution into America's rivers, streams, and lakes each year. These pollutants, including lead and mercury can be dangerous to humans and wreak havoc in our watersheds even in very small amounts. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency finalized a rule that will reduce the discharge of toxic pollutants into America's waterways from steam electric power plants by 1.4 billion pounds annually, as well as reduce water withdrawal by 57 billion gallons per year, resulting in an estimated benefit of $463 million per year to Americans across the country and cleaner safer water.
Clean Water Protections – For over a decade, conflicting Supreme Court decisions have caused confusion over which waterways are covered by protections of the Clean Water Act – causing millions of stream miles and acres of wetlands to be at risk of pollution and destruction potentially jeopardizing safe drinking water.
However. the Obama Administration put in place safeguards to restore the Clean Water Act, protecting streams and wetlands from pollution throughout the country. Furthermore, these standards help to protect the drinking water for 1 out of 3 Americans, preserve fish and wildlife habitat, and reduce the risk of flooding.
Clean Air Protections – The EPA must ensure that air quality standards reflect the current body of scientific and medical research. These data clearly indicate that smog pollution limits should be set at 70 ppb (or lower), that we must aggressively cut carbon pollution, and limit air toxics like mercury and acid gases that power plants emit.
Visibility Protections – The EPA's regional haze rule works to reduce the visible and toxic haze that is present in national parks and wilderness areas for much of the year by reducing ozone, nitrogen oxides, sulphur dioxide, carbon dioxide, mercury, and other toxic gas particulates. The rule not only protects public health; it also ensures that our national parks and special places have clearer air free from haze and smog improving the stunning vistas that draw the public to these cherished places
Safeguarding Communities During Startup, Shutdown, and Malfunction – EPA must ensure that that states have plans in strong place to address unrestricted emission of toxic pollution during startup, shutdown, and malfunction periods at emitting facilities and limit the serious health effects in neighboring or downwind communities.
Clean Power Plan – Following judicial review, EPA must ensure the implementation of the Clean Power Plan which regulates carbon dioxide from existing power plants, one of the largest source of carbon pollution in the United States, through clear, consistent, and achievable standards for states. The rule is expected to reduce carbon emissions 32 percent below 2005 levels by 2030, as well as conventional pollutants that cause dangerous smog and soot, in turn avoiding thousands of premature deaths, asthma attacks, heart attacks, and hospital visits.
[Your Comment]
[Your Name]
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