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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!

# 150:

1:12 pm PDT, Oct 2, David Larsen, Illinois

# 149:

1:12 pm PDT, Oct 2, Cynthia Handlen, Maine

# 148:

1:12 pm PDT, Oct 2, Ivars Ozolin, California
The time is now to step up and do the right thing. The message is clear: EPA, we hold you fully responsible for creating AND upholding much tougher air pollution standards throughout the US. We all breathe the same air, we're all in this together. So, please do the right thing and create and enforce iron-clad air pollution standards. Thank you.

# 147:

1:12 pm PDT, Oct 2, Name not displayed, California
So we can breathe clean air!

# 146:

1:12 pm PDT, Oct 2, Brian Boyce, California

# 145:

1:12 pm PDT, Oct 2, Marina Geaslin, Wisconsin

# 144:

1:11 pm PDT, Oct 2, Lauri Domingo, New York

# 143:

1:11 pm PDT, Oct 2, Gladys Limon, California

# 142:

1:11 pm PDT, Oct 2, Giovanni Garcia-Fenech, New York
I would hope that the Environmental Protection Agency would finally start living up to its name.

# 141:

1:11 pm PDT, Oct 2, Mark Morin, Washington
man I can barely breathe the air now...Clean it up!!!

# 140:

1:11 pm PDT, Oct 2, Christopher Lewis, North Carolina

# 139:

1:11 pm PDT, Oct 2, Beth Osmer, California

# 138:

1:10 pm PDT, Oct 2, Anu Nagaraj, New York

# 137:

1:10 pm PDT, Oct 2, Jeanne Bergman, New York
Urban communities are ravaged by asthma and other respiratory diseases caused by air pollution; our planet is dying from climate change caused by air pollution. We need tough and enforceable standards now.

# 136:

1:10 pm PDT, Oct 2, Paul Whitcomb, Massachusetts
With increasing population, air pollution standards must be much higher.

# 135:

1:10 pm PDT, Oct 2, Bonnie Gretz, Oregon

# 134:

1:10 pm PDT, Oct 2, Madeleine Breen, Ohio

# 133:

1:10 pm PDT, Oct 2, Mary Savage, Minnesota
Protecting citizens of our country is your duty. Dirty air is a disgrace. People suffer everywhere because big business hasn't had to shell out money to clean up their pollution-spewing businesses and vehicles. Profits should not take precedence and because of it people are still breathing poison. If the EPA doesn't do something proactive to make business accountable, they are enabling, even encouraging, it to happen. It's shameful.

# 132:

1:10 pm PDT, Oct 2, Maria Latour, Pennsylvania
We need tougher air pollution standards for EVERYONES health!

# 131:

1:10 pm PDT, Oct 2, Elizabeth Arsenault, Florida

# 130:

1:10 pm PDT, Oct 2, Julie Jumonville, California

# 129:

1:10 pm PDT, Oct 2, Shirley McGee, Virginia

# 128:

1:09 pm PDT, Oct 2, Paul Findsen, Ohio

# 127:

1:09 pm PDT, Oct 2, Deborah Hirsch, Wisconsin

# 126:

1:09 pm PDT, Oct 2, Tina Shannon, California

# 125:

1:09 pm PDT, Oct 2, Robert Cerello, California
The action you are considering is insane temporizing. . You breathe; every citizen of this country does; children, animals, ever lower forms of life such as extremist Repuyblicans and squirrewls breathe. What is it about cleaning up polluted and dangerous air that is so hard to grasp as a spur to effective action? Do you hate scientists so much? Or is it truth that frightens you, as in shouldering a responsibility for honesyu that's beyond your powers? Or is there some suicidal hidden postmdernist-theocratic agenda here we're not being told about? Read my lips. "If you want cleaner air, you have to clean up the air. And make polluters PAY FOR IT." Thank you for saving your own lives, and incidentally, mine and that of 300,000 00 other victims of anti-scientific stupidity and a century of crimes.

# 124:

1:09 pm PDT, Oct 2, Kate Skolnick, New York

# 123:

1:09 pm PDT, Oct 2, Susan Talarico, Wisconsin

# 122:

1:09 pm PDT, Oct 2, Kathryn Shafton, California
If citys can ban smoking why can't the EPA take a toughter stance?

# 121:

1:09 pm PDT, Oct 2, Krystina Bair, Washington

# 120:

1:08 pm PDT, Oct 2, Heather Chandler, California

# 119:

1:08 pm PDT, Oct 2, Bonney Ryder, Maine

# 118:

1:08 pm PDT, Oct 2, J W Rowland, Florida

# 117:

1:08 pm PDT, Oct 2, Name not displayed, Florida
Please undo the damage King George has unleashed on our world.

# 116:

1:08 pm PDT, Oct 2, Roseann Marulli, New York

# 115:

1:07 pm PDT, Oct 2, Cathy Jackson, Ohio

# 114:

1:07 pm PDT, Oct 2, Judith Filler, Texas
Like so many Americans, I have asthma now. The idea that we need clean air is a "no brainer." Policymakers and their families have to breathe, too! Let's get on with doing what's right for us all. Thanks!

# 113:

1:07 pm PDT, Oct 2, Name not displayed, Colorado

# 112:

1:07 pm PDT, Oct 2, Michael J. Serpe, Wisconsin

# 111:

1:07 pm PDT, Oct 2, Name not displayed, Illinois

# 110:

1:07 pm PDT, Oct 2, Neil Glazer, New Jersey

# 109:

1:07 pm PDT, Oct 2, Name not displayed, California

# 108:

1:06 pm PDT, Oct 2, Ariana Montoya, Florida

# 107:

1:06 pm PDT, Oct 2, Dwayne Hicks, Massachusetts

# 106:

1:06 pm PDT, Oct 2, Peg Zafiratos, Pennsylvania
this is LONG overdue............

# 105:

1:06 pm PDT, Oct 2, Owen Langbart, New York

# 104:

1:06 pm PDT, Oct 2, GLADYS E. TCHATAL, New York
THIS ATMOSPHERE IS NOT EXCLUSIVE TO ONE REGION OR ONE POPULATION!!! IT IMPACTS ALL OF US.

# 103:

1:06 pm PDT, Oct 2, Nick Gonzalez, California

# 102:

1:06 pm PDT, Oct 2, Charles Brenna, Pennsylvania

# 101:

1:06 pm PDT, Oct 2, Michael Burns, Utah

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