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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!

# 100:

1:06 pm PDT, Oct 2, Janine Boneparth, California
what could be more fundamental for the EPA than clean air?

# 99:

1:06 pm PDT, Oct 2, Linda Nguyen, California

# 98:

1:05 pm PDT, Oct 2, Louise Judson, Arizona

# 97:

1:05 pm PDT, Oct 2, Meww Gomez, Virginia

# 96:

1:05 pm PDT, Oct 2, Paula Schnieder, Delaware
Pollution is both a health problem and a general environmental problem, even affected the lakes, oceans and rivers. It is time for some longer term thinking!

# 95:

1:05 pm PDT, Oct 2, Rob Clifford, Colorado

# 94:

1:05 pm PDT, Oct 2, Llana Barber, Rhode Island

# 93:

1:05 pm PDT, Oct 2, Dieter Randolph, Florida

# 92:

1:05 pm PDT, Oct 2, Sally Fitzgerald, West Virginia

# 91:

1:04 pm PDT, Oct 2, Name not displayed, Illinois

# 90:

1:04 pm PDT, Oct 2, Rhona Shulman, California

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1:04 pm PDT, Oct 2, Name not displayed, New Jersey

# 88:

1:04 pm PDT, Oct 2, Adam Faja, Washington

# 87:

1:03 pm PDT, Oct 2, Name not displayed, Turkey

# 86:

1:03 pm PDT, Oct 2, Lisa Dafoe, Wyoming

# 85:

1:03 pm PDT, Oct 2, Genelda Peck, Oklahoma
We need cleaner air for better health.

# 84:

1:03 pm PDT, Oct 2, John Dulmage, New York
cuzz the kids of the futur need to be abal to breath clean air and i dont want my kid breathing in harmful air any more

# 83:

1:03 pm PDT, Oct 2, Valerie Barth, Ohio

# 82:

1:03 pm PDT, Oct 2, Melissa Madani, Florida

# 81:

1:03 pm PDT, Oct 2, James Acito, Pennsylvania

# 80:

1:03 pm PDT, Oct 2, Elke Pahl, Germany

# 79:

1:03 pm PDT, Oct 2, Emily Lee, Illinois

# 78:

1:03 pm PDT, Oct 2, Name not displayed, New York

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1:02 pm PDT, Oct 2, Name not displayed, Indiana

# 76:

1:02 pm PDT, Oct 2, Arlene Naranjo, Florida

# 75:

1:02 pm PDT, Oct 2, Jamie Briggs, Indiana

# 74:

1:02 pm PDT, Oct 2, Marco Chelo, New York

# 73:

1:02 pm PDT, Oct 2, Gloria Enriquez Pizana, Ohio

# 72:

1:01 pm PDT, Oct 2, Joanna Scott, Massachusetts

# 71:

1:01 pm PDT, Oct 2, Robert Anger, California

# 70:

1:01 pm PDT, Oct 2, Eric Concannon, Wyoming
I want my kids to be able live in an environment that is better than the one I have lived in.

# 69:

1:01 pm PDT, Oct 2, Taryn Kennedy, New York

# 68:

1:01 pm PDT, Oct 2, Marcela Gonzalez, North Carolina

# 67:

1:00 pm PDT, Oct 2, Erika Moyer, California

# 66:

1:00 pm PDT, Oct 2, Name not displayed, Texas

# 65:

1:00 pm PDT, Oct 2, Libba Miller, Tennessee

# 64:

1:00 pm PDT, Oct 2, Barbara Franklin, Florida
As a health care company worker, I have seen asthma skyrocket in the last few years. Please do something to make the air cleaner!

# 63:

1:00 pm PDT, Oct 2, Kim Rogers, Ohio

# 62:

12:59 pm PDT, Oct 2, Trisha Schawo, Indiana

# 61:

12:59 pm PDT, Oct 2, Laura Meisler, Michigan

# 60:

12:58 pm PDT, Oct 2, Jean Frye, Pennsylvania

# 59:

12:58 pm PDT, Oct 2, Judi Weinstein, California

# 58:

12:58 pm PDT, Oct 2, Inna Zaretsky, New Jersey

# 57:

12:57 pm PDT, Oct 2, Susannah Richardson, Massachusetts

# 56:

12:56 pm PDT, Oct 2, Name not displayed, New Jersey

# 55:

12:43 pm PDT, Oct 2, Ser Saudavel, Brazil

# 54:

12:23 pm PDT, Oct 2, Thorton Wells, Kansas

# 53:

11:55 am PDT, Oct 2, Dogan Ozkan, Turkey

# 52:

10:47 am PDT, Oct 2, Name not displayed, Wyoming

# 51:

10:30 am PDT, Oct 2, Nicole Hardin, Alabama

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