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We Need Tougher Air Pollution Standards!

Target: EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson
Sponsored by: Environmental Defense

Ground level ozone, better known as smog, represents a serious health danger to tens of millions of Americans.

The Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee recognized these health risks when it unanimously found there was no scientific justification for maintaining the current health standard and recommended EPA substantially strengthen the national health standard for ozone.

But, the EPA has proposed to only marginally strengthen smog standards and has even inexplicably left the door open to leaving the standards unchanged.

Take action! The comment period for this issue ends on October 9!

Tell the EPA that air quality standards must be substantially strengthened to protect millions of Americans from exposure to dangerous levels of smog pollution.

deadline: 10-9-2007
goal: 10,000

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Administrator Johnson,

I urge you to substantially strengthen the nation's defense against dangerous smog pollution by adopting a more protective federal health standard for ground-level ozone.

EPA's own scientific advisory committee unanimously recommended that you substantially reduce the federal health standard by establishing a new standard in the range of 0.060 ppm (parts per million) to 0.070 ppm.

Millions of Americans are at risk from ozone pollution including our children, the elderly, those who work and exercise outside, and individuals with respiratory disease.

There is also extensive scientific evidence associating ozone with increased hospital emergency room visits, asthma attacks, missed school and work days, and death.

The Clean Air Act entrusts you with establishing a federal health standard that will protect public health with an adequate margin of safety.

I respectfully ask that you protect the health of millions of Americans by adopting a federal air standard that is at the more protective end (0.060 ppm) of the range recommended unanimously by EPA's independent scientific advisory committee.

[Your Comment]

Sincerely,
[Your name]
[Your address]

We signed the “We Need Tougher Air Pollution Standards!” petition!

# 50:

10:24 am PDT, Oct 2, Jenny Burger, Georgia

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10:14 am PDT, Oct 2, Name not displayed, California

# 48:

9:55 am PDT, Oct 2, Gary B, California

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9:32 am PDT, Oct 2, Gino Foti, Massachusetts

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9:10 am PDT, Oct 2, Amy Schumacher, Ohio

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9:05 am PDT, Oct 2, Name not displayed, Tennessee

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8:08 am PDT, Oct 2, Nicky Elizabeth, Maine

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8:00 am PDT, Oct 2, Nicky Meyer, South Africa

# 42:

7:19 am PDT, Oct 2, Anna Grace Deierlein, South Carolina

# 41:

6:33 am PDT, Oct 2, Beverly Dixon, Pennsylvania
We need tougher air pollution standards. All companies that pollute the air should be held accountable for their actions in effecting our health in negative ways.

# 40:

6:26 am PDT, Oct 2, Jack Campbell, Illinois

# 39:

6:18 am PDT, Oct 2, Morgan Fillion, North Carolina

# 38:

6:18 am PDT, Oct 2, Ramona Medina, Oregon

# 37:

6:06 am PDT, Oct 2, Regina Wirth, Germany

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5:54 am PDT, Oct 2, Michael Neary, Florida

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5:39 am PDT, Oct 2, Andrea Schnitzler, Rhode Island

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5:25 am PDT, Oct 2, Fred Fall, New Jersey

# 33:

5:11 am PDT, Oct 2, Zarah Pittaluga, Sweden

# 32:

5:00 am PDT, Oct 2, Thomas Pirovano, Switzerland
Very important!

# 31:

12:07 am PDT, Oct 2, Teddi Cruise, California
I have to ask WHY this is even being questioned? Loosening standards for the AIR WE BREATHE???

# 30:

11:14 pm PDT, Oct 1, Leah Duke, Canada

# 29:

11:02 pm PDT, Oct 1, Melissa Caulfield, California
WE NEED TO DO BETTER PERIOD!

# 28:

10:22 pm PDT, Oct 1, Name not displayed, France

# 27:

8:25 pm PDT, Oct 1, Kevin Bixler, California

# 26:

7:13 pm PDT, Oct 1, Noel Flippen, Arizona

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7:07 pm PDT, Oct 1, Alex Won, California

# 24:

6:48 pm PDT, Oct 1, Rose Nzueni, Florida

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6:11 pm PDT, Oct 1, Jen Wilk, New Jersey

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6:09 pm PDT, Oct 1, Steve Dale, Australia

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6:01 pm PDT, Oct 1, Leah Mcrobie, Pennsylvania

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5:51 pm PDT, Oct 1, Christina Donnelly, North Carolina
Clean air is essential...no amount of money is worth compromising our air quality. We need serious protection for our air! Environmental PROTECTION Agency, let's get on it.

# 19:

5:31 pm PDT, Oct 1, Danielle! H, Washington
we should have tougher air pollution standards because were killing ourselves! not only that but animals and we create hybrids but dont attempt to lower prices so more people will buy them[because theyre not able to afford the car-for example i want to get a hybrid car when im 16 but i know i wont be able to afford it even if i save my money] we also dont create better fuel [more convient for the Earth] because all we care about is MONEY!if we ALL worked together[including fuel companies and such]we could lower the amount of pillution we put in the air!

# 18:

5:16 pm PDT, Oct 1, Kristen Atkinson, California

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4:50 pm PDT, Oct 1, Emmi Ollila, Finland

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4:23 pm PDT, Oct 1, Name not displayed, New Zealand

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4:09 pm PDT, Oct 1, Georgeann O'Keefe, Florida

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3:41 pm PDT, Oct 1, Aiz T, Canada

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3:20 pm PDT, Oct 1, Gerry Carter, Texas

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3:12 pm PDT, Oct 1, Mike Stanley, Illinois

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2:43 pm PDT, Oct 1, Matthew Pintar, Pennsylvania

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2:41 pm PDT, Oct 1, Name not displayed, Maine

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2:37 pm PDT, Oct 1, Cara Gubrud, Minnesota

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2:18 pm PDT, Oct 1, Polly Odyssey, Missouri

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1:53 pm PDT, Oct 1, Dinda Evans, California

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1:52 pm PDT, Oct 1, Vidya Sims, California

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12:54 pm PDT, Oct 1, Giselle Sosa, Argentina

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11:39 am PDT, Oct 1, Catherine Smalley, United Kingdom

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11:38 am PDT, Oct 1, Name not displayed, California

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11:35 am PDT, Oct 1, Panagiotis Rigopoulos, Greece

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11:26 am PDT, Oct 1, Name not displayed, California

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