Trump Is Illegally Undermining Our Health Protections
The Trump Administration is taking dangerous — and in one case, even illegal — aim at basic EPA activities that protect Americans from dangerous chemicals that make us sick and can even kill us.
First, by forcing EPA to ignore studies like the ones that told us cigarettes can kill you and air pollution leads to heart disease and premature death. And second, by breaking the law and choosing to ignore exposures to harmful chemicals present in the air, water, and land when evaluating the chemicals' risks.
We can't let these attacks stand — so we've made it easy for you to quickly speak out against both of them with just one click. Take action today, and tell EPA: Americans won't stand for these crucial protections being attacked
SUBJECT: Include all air, water and land exposures when reviewing toxic chemicals
Dear [Decision Maker],
I am writing today gravely concerned about EPA's severely flawed approach to reviewing the risks to health and the environment posed by the first 10 chemicals being evaluated under the newly reformed Toxic Substances Control Act.
EPA's decision to ignore many known sources of exposure to the chemicals will severely underestimate their actual threat to public health and will put American lives at risk.
This new assault on TSCA implementation is illegal, and flies in the face of the science that informs what we know about how chemicals can affect our health and environment. The science tells us that the combined, long-term, and even low-level exposures resulting from multiple uses and sources of exposure to a chemical are what matters.
It is critical that EPA comprehensively assess exposures in order to properly protect the American public from toxic chemicals that we are unknowingly exposed to every day.
[Your comment here]
Sincerely,
[Your name here]
