The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was created for one reason: to protect our health and the environment we live in. The EPA is tasked with keeping the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the land where we grow our food, clean and healthy for all generations.
But the agency just announced a
shocking change.
The EPA says it will stop counting human lives and health when setting limits on deadly air pollution…and will only look at how much pollution rules cost businesses.That is not protection.
That is sacrificing human lives for big business. Sign the petition now to stop this before it's too late.Air pollution is not abstract. Tiny particles called PM2.5 and smog-forming ozone slip deep into our lungs and bloodstream. They
trigger asthma attacks, heart and lung disease, and even early death. Even modest amounts can harm our lungs as much as smoking does.
By ignoring these harms, Trump's EPA is telling families that profit matters more than breathing. For decades, the EPA used basic common sense: cleaner air saves lives, and saving lives matters. Under this new plan, lives saved are treated as worth zero on paper.
That makes it easier to weaken rules on coal plants, oil refineries, and factories, meaning dirtier air for kids, older adults, vulnerable communities. Everyone. This is reckless.
This move fits
a disturbing pattern under the Trump administration: roll back safeguards, please polluters, and tell communities to deal with the fallout. But the EPA's own mission says its job is to protect human health and the environment. Ignoring health to cut costs breaks that promise.
We are calling on Lee Zeldin, the head of the EPA, to reverse this decision immediately. Put people first. Count the lives saved. Protect children with asthma, elders with heart disease, and every family that depends on clean air, and curb pollution before it's too late.
Sign the petition now and tell the EPA: our lives are not negotiable.