“We will follow the science, the law, and common sense wherever it leads, and we will do so while advancing our commitment toward helping to deliver cleaner, healthier, and safer air, land, and water,” EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin promised during his confirmation hearing.
But virtually everything he’s done since taking office is anti-science and anti-public health, including his renewed efforts to gut EPA’s Office of Research and Development and fire hundreds of scientists. We urgently need Congress’s support to protect science funding and scientist jobs at EPA. Join Moms in urging Congress to protect EPA’s funding and vital mission.
Tell Congress: Defend EPA’s Ability to Protect Human Health and the Environment
Firing EPA’s independent scientists will sabotage the agency’s ability to assess the health and environmental impacts of everything from air pollution to chemicals in drinking water to the hazards of wildfire smoke.
We’ll also lose future research on the health impacts of extreme heat, an area of study that’s feeling vitally important right now in the dog days of summer. Like so many places across the country, my home outside Washington, DC, is experiencing dangerous heat and humidity—with temperatures so high summer programming is being cancelled for safety and Metro and Amtrak have had to slow their trains.
But Zeldin wants to do more than fire scientists and eliminate essential research. He’s also trying to:
- yank apart the climate safeguards everyone in the U.S. relies on
- roll back safeguards against deadly soot, mercury, and petrochemical pollution, which will deeply impact the most vulnerable among us: our children.
These assaults on EPA by polluters and their allies in the White House and Congress are like nothing we’ve ever seen before. At the same time, the agency is being crippled with massive funding cuts and layoffs of not just scientists, but also public health experts, and other critical staff. Protecting the environment cannot be done without these necessary resources.
Join Moms in demanding lawmakers aggressively defend EPA funding and staff.
Tell Congress: Defend EPA’s Ability to Protect Human Health and the Environment