Lead is one of the most harmful toxins on Earth and is especially hazardous for children.
Incredibly, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is considering removing lead entirely from the list of pollutants it controls under the Clean Air Act.
Exposure to leads can pose high risks to humans. Lead poisoning damages the major organs and causes osteoporosis, high blood pressure, heart disease, anemia, memory problems and seizures. Children are at the greatest risk with lead poisoning, as low levels of lead can cause lowered IQ levels and learning deficits.
Please act now to ensure that your health isn't threatened. Tell the EPA that it must continue to use the best available science to protect the air we breathe from dangerous lead pollution.
We signed the “Stop EPA From Abandoning 30 Years of Air Quality Control” petition!
# 13,815:
8:52 pm PST, Feb 5,Patricia Martin, Montana
Is it too late? What are you doing now?
# 13,814:
8:52 pm PST, Feb 5,Name not displayed, California
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8:51 pm PST, Feb 5,Jim Williamson, Tennessee
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8:50 pm PST, Feb 5,Irene Puleo, Rhode Island
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8:49 pm PST, Feb 5,Bob Miller, Michigan
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8:49 pm PST, Feb 5,Name not displayed, Nevada
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8:49 pm PST, Feb 5,Mark Couch, Alabama
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8:48 pm PST, Feb 5,Elizabeth Carzello, Tennessee
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8:48 pm PST, Feb 5,Sheri Rowland, Iowa
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8:48 pm PST, Feb 5,Dan Osterman, Massachusetts
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8:47 pm PST, Feb 5,Marguerite Wilcox, New Mexico
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8:47 pm PST, Feb 5,Jameson Williamson, Tennessee
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8:47 pm PST, Feb 5,Name not displayed, New York
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8:46 pm PST, Feb 5,Shawn Bohman, Wisconsin
# 13,801:
8:45 pm PST, Feb 5,Sharon DiPrima, Illinois
# 13,800:
8:45 pm PST, Feb 5,Ann Szaur, California
Lead is the most deadly poison for human beings. Get real, folks.
# 13,799:
8:45 pm PST, Feb 5,Sara Milner, California
# 13,798:
8:44 pm PST, Feb 5,Keith R, Washington
Stop abetting your cronies in corruption.
# 13,797:
8:44 pm PST, Feb 5,Judythe Avery, Alaska
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8:44 pm PST, Feb 5,Name not displayed, Kansas
# 13,794:
8:43 pm PST, Feb 5,SJ Jacobson, Texas
Our lives depend on air quality control!!
# 13,795:
8:43 pm PST, Feb 5,Holly Ayers, Oregon
# 13,793:
8:43 pm PST, Feb 5,Meagan Frame, Maryland
i shouldn't have to breathe through a gas mask to get back and forth to work in order to save myself from getting lead poisoning or cancer. the air is bad enough as it is with all the pollution. why are "you" giving the ok to make it worse?
# 13,792:
8:43 pm PST, Feb 5,Susie Wallace, Michigan
# 13,791:
8:42 pm PST, Feb 5,Islndbluesgrl Lackey, Florida
Any proposal to eliminate the lead standard would be an immense step backwards.
# 13,790:
8:41 pm PST, Feb 5,Vanessa Share, California
We all know how dangerous lead can be for the health of our children and for the rest of us. So please continue to protect the people from this poison.
# 13,789:
8:41 pm PST, Feb 5,Daniel Clements, New Mexico
# 13,788:
8:41 pm PST, Feb 5,LuAnn Bagatti, Colorado
because you need to realize that we have a a** in the white house who has no care for the enviroment! where will you be once you breathe this in?
# 13,787:
8:38 pm PST, Feb 5,Laura C, California
# 13,786:
8:38 pm PST, Feb 5,Paul Pfaehler, Utah
we should be improving air quality standards not degrading them
# 13,785:
8:37 pm PST, Feb 5,Jack Pierce, Tennessee
We are already having to live with the effects of poor judgment by pulling out of the international communities battle over global warming. Let's not continue our narrow sightedness. WE ARE KILLING OURSELVES.
# 13,784:
8:37 pm PST, Feb 5,Frances Clark, California
don't remove our protection from lead pollution.
# 13,783:
8:36 pm PST, Feb 5,Jackie Horton, Washington
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8:36 pm PST, Feb 5,Lori Freeman, Kansas
# 13,781:
8:36 pm PST, Feb 5,New Horizon Massage, Colorado
# 13,780:
8:36 pm PST, Feb 5,Lavinia Reno, Colorado
It seems obvious that the EPA is loaded with pro-Bush anti-environmental clones who don't understand that the air we ALL breathe must be protected. Hey, we Americans are finally pulling together and recognize that many in higher places are "brownies" of the Bush administration.
EPA get with our future and protect the air we breathe!
# 13,779:
8:35 pm PST, Feb 5,Quwen Qyiz, Pennsylvania
I refuse to allow my lungs to be poisoned.
# 13,778:
8:35 pm PST, Feb 5,Suzanne Barrett, New Mexico
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8:34 pm PST, Feb 5,Rachael Manning, Pennsylvania
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8:34 pm PST, Feb 5,Linda Hallgren, Oregon
# 13,775:
8:33 pm PST, Feb 5,Morning West, Illinois
It simply has just never been more imperative.
# 13,774:
8:33 pm PST, Feb 5,Name not displayed, Illinois
After so many years of headway, it seems like the Environmental Protection Agency has become 'captured' by the industries--or that the cost of environmental quality maintenance is increasingly left to the states. This is a national problem that should be resolved with full, effective enforcement at the federal level. Our children's health depends on effective pollution prevention or amelioration!
# 13,773:
8:33 pm PST, Feb 5,Angie Bryant, Florida
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8:31 pm PST, Feb 5,Sheril Kaulback, Missouri
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8:31 pm PST, Feb 5,Name not displayed, California
# 13,770:
8:30 pm PST, Feb 5,Mary Farley, Tennessee
If the EPA does not protect the air we breathe from dangerous lead pollution, the EPA's leadership needs to be replaced for failing to perform their duties. Congress should investigate, castigate, and incarcerate those who do not enforce pollution laws or those who break pollution laws. Eventually, when the environmental situation in our country becomes so dire that polluters’ families become ill, these hideous individuals will not be able to escape their failing fortunes and diabolical caricatures.
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8:29 pm PST, Feb 5,Tim Jones, Idaho
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8:29 pm PST, Feb 5,Dahmay Shiday, California
please help
# 13,767:
8:28 pm PST, Feb 5,TIGEReyeCRYSTAL Noble, Wisconsin
Its bad enough that many people suffer with asthma and other lung disorders shouldn't the air be as clean as it can be even for those who have no probloms breathing?
# 13,766:
8:27 pm PST, Feb 5,Kelly Rock, Florida
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8:27 pm PST, Feb 5,William Schoene, California
Elevated lead levels in the blood cause
impaired mental functioning; dropping
the regulation of lead as an environmental contaiminent is brain-dead.
# 13,764:
8:27 pm PST, Feb 5,Ulla Weiland, Finland
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8:25 pm PST, Feb 5,Victoria Powers, Indiana
# 13,762:
8:25 pm PST, Feb 5,Name not displayed, Colorado
Shame on those who think money will forever be worth something. What will you do when even your millions of dollars can't buy clean air? What will your money be worth then? And won't your future generations be angry as hell when they find out all you left them was useless money?
# 13,761:
8:24 pm PST, Feb 5,Donita Munoz, Kentucky
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8:23 pm PST, Feb 5,Teresa DeJager, Oregon
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8:23 pm PST, Feb 5,Dewey Clark, Washington
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8:23 pm PST, Feb 5,Brian Kaestner, Texas
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8:22 pm PST, Feb 5,Mark Herbert, North Carolina
For my children, and yours...
# 13,756:
8:22 pm PST, Feb 5,Eta Yager, Pennsylvania
# 13,755:
8:21 pm PST, Feb 5,Sandra Williamson, Colorado
What if it were YOUR child who was dying from lung cancer because YOU lowered the air quality standards?
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8:21 pm PST, Feb 5,Name not displayed, Ohio
# 13,753:
8:21 pm PST, Feb 5,Name not displayed, Wisconsin
The idea not to continue to protect the air from lead pollution, sounds as though it was thought of by someone suffering from lead poisioning or perhaps under the influence of corporate greed.
