Earlier this month, 52 Senators voted to repeal Clean Air Act protections against seven of the world’s most toxic air pollutants, including mercury, lead, dioxins, and others. Now the resolution is with the House of Representatives for a vote.
If it passes the House, 1,800 of the nation’s largest industrial polluters, including chemical manufacturers, pesticide makers, refineries, and others could permanently shut off their pollution controls and stop monitoring emissions of these potent carcinogens—which get into our air and groundwater and find their way into our parks, schools, and homes.
This is deeply disturbing. It has never happened before. But the fight is not over yet. Moms are sounding the alarm.
Tell the House: Don’t Allow Toxic Polluters to Turn Off Pollution Controls
These toxic pollutants cause cancers, birth defects, and children’s developmental disorders. They are dangerous even in tiny amounts.
They persist in the environment, contaminate our air and water and soil, they end up in our food chain, and accumulate in our bodies over our lifetimes. We pass them along to our babies during fetal development and breastfeeding, harming our children and future generations.
We must all raise our voices to stop industrial polluters from releasing unlimited quantities of these chemicals.
Congress must keep in place the pollution control requirements—an important part of the Clean Air Act. Rolling them back is nothing less than cynical, reckless, and deeply irresponsible—and it will have 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 House: Don’t Allow Toxic Polluters to Turn Off Pollution Controls