We Need Tougher Air Pollution Standards!
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.
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.
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Sincerely,
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