Less than 5 months ago, thousands of Moms members like you urged EPA to get moving on air pollution standards. We had been waiting for more than two years for EPA to set new standards for methane, particle pollution, mercury, and tailpipe pollution from cars and trucks, to name just a few.
Guess what? Now EPA has no less than 4 proposed rules pending that will address these critical issues and more. And the deadlines for comments from the public are all coming up in the next two months.
That’s where you come in. We now have one and half million members across the country united to protect our children’s health—and it’s the time for us to act! We need to show our support for all these rules. We’ll be asking you to sign all 4 petitions.
Because Earth doesn’t care whether people or cockroaches are crawling across its back. Only WE care, and we care deeply.
Here’s what is in front of us:
First, new standards for pollution from plastics and chemical manufacturing.
- As Misti Allison, Moms member from East Palestine, told Senators: “We’ve watched those trains go through our backyards every single day.” Local families had no idea what those trains were carrying—how poisonous the chemicals are. Or how much toxic stuff goes into making plastics.
- EPA Administrator Michael Regan has kicked off the process to crack down on some of the abuses by the gigantic, extraordinarily wealthy—and extraordinarily cruel—petrochemical industry.
TELL EPA: PROTECT PEOPLE FROM TOXIC AIR POLLUTION RELEASED IN PLASTICS AND CHEMICAL MANUFACTURING
Second and third, new standards for tailpipe pollution from cars and trucks.
- Think about the highways cutting through our communities, sending up nasty air pollution from cars and diesel trucks and buses. And the climate pollution: off the charts.
- The new rules to curb tailpipe emissions are powerful—and we need them for cars, trucks, AND buses. It isn’t fair for truckers to be exposed to heart- and lung-damaging pollution all day long—much less our kids.
TELL EPA: WE NEED THE STRONGEST POSSIBLE CLEAN CAR STANDARDS
TELL EPA: SET STRONG LIMITS ON CLIMATE POLLUTION FROM HEAVY-DUTY TRUCKS
Fourth, new standards for mercury and other air toxins from coal-fired power plants.
- All 50 states have issued advisories to protect people from eating mercury-contaminated fish from local lakes and rivers.
- Although the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards that have been in place since 2012 are working, the new proposal to strengthen these standards will offer greater protection to pregnant women, children, Tribes, and communities that live off local waterways.
TELL EPA: MOMS SUPPORT STRENGTHENING THE MERCURY AND AIR TOXICS STANDARDS
There is a lot of good coming out of EPA now. We need your support. This is a historic moment for the United States to tackle its climate and air pollution and toxic chemicals. Participate!
We don’t want our children cursing us in 10, 20, 50 years for not doing enough.