Right now, the EPA is allowing some of the worst polluters to apply for a Presidential exemption from the very safeguards that protect our right to clean air.
The current administration has invited more than 500 industrial facilities to apply for exemptions from pollution limits under the Clean Air Act. These pollution standards exist to protect us and our families from the terrible risks to our health, and by allowing exemptions, they are putting clean air at risk and exposing communities to known health hazards, including brain-damaging mercury, cancer-causing benzene and arsenic, and dozens of other hazardous and toxic chemicals linked to serious health effects.
Don't let polluters get a free pass. Sign your name and send the message to the administration that we will not allow public health to suffer for polluters' profit.
I write to express my deep concerns about the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) recent invitation to provide exemptions from pollution safeguards. By providing exemptions to our largest sources of industrial pollution, millions of Americans could be exposed to dangerous levels of hazardous air pollution that could exceed protective limits under the Clean Air Act.
If left unchecked, petrochemical manufacturers, coal fired power plants, and other high-polluting industrial facilities will dirty our air with harmful levels of mercury, arsenic, chloroprene, ethylene oxide, and other contaminants – each of which are associated with serious adverse health effects, including cancer.
I urge you to immediately enforce our nation's clean air laws. By doing so, you'll fulfill EPA's promise to safeguard public health by protecting the American people from toxic air pollution.
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