Tell EPA to lower Carbon Monoxide exposure limits
- por: www.COconundra.info
- destinatário: EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, Docket #EPA-HQ-OAR-2008-0015
On February 11, 2011, US EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson proposed keeping the National Ambient Air Quality standards for carbon monoxide (CO) exposure at 1971 levels.
Her proposed rule ignores the recommendations of EPA staff and EPA'sClean Air Scientific Advisory Committee to lower the 8-hour CO limit from 9 parts per million (ppm) to as low as 3-4ppm, and the 1-hour limit from 35ppm to as low as 5-8ppm.
Their recommendations were based on hundreds of scientific studies showing significantly increased risks of serious illness and death from small increases in average outdoor CO exposure within a range of just 1 to 3 ppm. Among those most at risk are people with cardiovascular or respiratory diseases as well as infants and developing fetuses.
EPA's decision to ignore all this evidence violates the Clean Air Act requirement that air quality standards be set at levels that protect even the most vulnerable populations. We have only until April 12 to submit comments on EPA's proposed rule.
This is our last chance to urge the EPA to do as the Clean Air Act requires and set new lower CO exposure limits that actually protect public health. Please add your name to this petition today!
You can also submit your own comments to EPA in support of stricter CO standards; just email to a-and-r-Docket@epa.gov and specify Docket # EPA-HQ-OAR-2008-0015
ON BEHALF OF THE BABIES MOST AT RISK, THANK YOU! If you signed this, please consider signing our other petition to EPA at
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/3/tell-epa-to-consult-childrens-health-protection-advisory-comm-about-proposed-carbon-monoxide-rule/
Her proposed rule ignores the recommendations of EPA staff and EPA'sClean Air Scientific Advisory Committee to lower the 8-hour CO limit from 9 parts per million (ppm) to as low as 3-4ppm, and the 1-hour limit from 35ppm to as low as 5-8ppm.
Their recommendations were based on hundreds of scientific studies showing significantly increased risks of serious illness and death from small increases in average outdoor CO exposure within a range of just 1 to 3 ppm. Among those most at risk are people with cardiovascular or respiratory diseases as well as infants and developing fetuses.
EPA's decision to ignore all this evidence violates the Clean Air Act requirement that air quality standards be set at levels that protect even the most vulnerable populations. We have only until April 12 to submit comments on EPA's proposed rule.
This is our last chance to urge the EPA to do as the Clean Air Act requires and set new lower CO exposure limits that actually protect public health. Please add your name to this petition today!
You can also submit your own comments to EPA in support of stricter CO standards; just email to a-and-r-Docket@epa.gov and specify Docket # EPA-HQ-OAR-2008-0015
ON BEHALF OF THE BABIES MOST AT RISK, THANK YOU! If you signed this, please consider signing our other petition to EPA at
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/3/tell-epa-to-consult-childrens-health-protection-advisory-comm-about-proposed-carbon-monoxide-rule/
Petition Regarding EPA Proposed Rule on Carbon Monoxide,
Docket # EPA-HQ-OAR-2008-0015
On behalf of ourselves and on behalf of all adults, children and developing fetuses in America whose health and lives are significantly threatened by small increases in exposure to carbon monoxide (CO) that are well within the current ambient ranges of just 1 to 3ppm,
We petition the US Environmental Protection Agency to change its proposed rule regarding the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for CO in order to protect the health of those populations who are most vulnerable and susceptible to the effects of low levels of CO exposure, as the Clean Air Act requires.
As EPA staff documented in EPA's Integrated Science Assessment of CO, hundreds of peer-reviewed epidemiological studies show that those most susceptible to CO include anyone with cardiovascular or respiratory disease, and particularly people with congestive heart failure or asthma, as well as developing fetuses, who are at significantly greater risk of low birth weight and cardiac birth defects, and 2 to 3 month old infants, who are at greater risk of respiratory mortality.
These risks are well explained by decades of human and animal laboratory studies into the effects of low-level CO which are not mediated by that portion of inhaled CO which binds to hemoglobin in blood but by the unbound portion of inhaled CO that passes through blood into organs and tissues where it binds with heme proteins of all kinds and primarly with myoglobin in muscles of all kinds but especially cardiac muscle, as well as passing through the placenta of pregnant women into the bloodstream of their unborn children.
In order to protect the health of all Americans from the potentially fatal effects of low level CO exposure, we firmly oppose EPA's proposal to leave its CO NAAQS standards at 9ppm average for 8 hours and 35 ppm average for 1 hour.
We hereby respectfully petition EPA to lower the 8-hour average limit for CO exposure to 1ppm and the 1-hour average limit to 5ppm.
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On behalf of ourselves and on behalf of all adults, children and developing fetuses in America whose health and lives are significantly threatened by small increases in exposure to carbon monoxide (CO) that are well within the current ambient ranges of just 1 to 3ppm,
We petition the US Environmental Protection Agency to change its proposed rule regarding the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for CO in order to protect the health of those populations who are most vulnerable and susceptible to the effects of low levels of CO exposure, as the Clean Air Act requires.
As EPA staff documented in EPA's Integrated Science Assessment of CO, hundreds of peer-reviewed epidemiological studies show that those most susceptible to CO include anyone with cardiovascular or respiratory disease, and particularly people with congestive heart failure or asthma, as well as developing fetuses, who are at significantly greater risk of low birth weight and cardiac birth defects, and 2 to 3 month old infants, who are at greater risk of respiratory mortality.
These risks are well explained by decades of human and animal laboratory studies into the effects of low-level CO which are not mediated by that portion of inhaled CO which binds to hemoglobin in blood but by the unbound portion of inhaled CO that passes through blood into organs and tissues where it binds with heme proteins of all kinds and primarly with myoglobin in muscles of all kinds but especially cardiac muscle, as well as passing through the placenta of pregnant women into the bloodstream of their unborn children.
In order to protect the health of all Americans from the potentially fatal effects of low level CO exposure, we firmly oppose EPA's proposal to leave its CO NAAQS standards at 9ppm average for 8 hours and 35 ppm average for 1 hour.
We hereby respectfully petition EPA to lower the 8-hour average limit for CO exposure to 1ppm and the 1-hour average limit to 5ppm.
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