The Senate will soon vote on whether to let the nation’s most toxic polluters permanently turn off their pollution controls. This would mean chemical plants, refineries, and pesticide manufacturers in neighborhoods throughout the country could release into the air unlimited amounts of chemicals that cause cancer, birth defects, and brain damage.
Moms are sounding the alarm.
Tell the Senate: Don’t Allow Toxic Polluters to Turn Off Pollution Controls
Safeguards against dangerous polluters have been in place for decades. Never in the 55-year history of the Clean Air Act has Congress rolled back any part of the act’s protections, let alone those that control the carcinogens emitted by the largest and most toxic industrial sources.
But now, if passed, a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution could strip away long-standing Clean Air Act protections against mercury, lead, dioxins, PCBs, and other super-toxic air pollutants. The resolution would allow heavily polluting facilities to stop controlling the 7 most hazardous air pollutants—forever.
In case you don’t remember what life before Clean Air Act protections were in place was like, we made a video reminder. Watch it here:
We can’t go back. It’s critical that Congress leave in place the pollution control requirements of the Clean Air Act. Rolling them back would be cynical, reckless, and deeply irresponsible, with disastrous consequences for the health of our children and our communities.
Join Moms in telling your lawmakers: keep your hands off the Clean Air Act.
Tell the Senate: Don’t Allow Toxic Polluters to Turn Off Pollution Controls