Current law gives communities a chance to consider air quality impacts and alternatives before industry starts building or expands major pollution sources. But a new proposal from EPA pushes the mute button on public input. It would allow toxic enterprises to enter our neighborhoods unannounced and lock us into decades of health risks without any transparency or democratic process.
That’s why I joined Moms from across the country last week to speak out at EPA’s hearing on this Orwellian proposal.
Tell EPA: Families Deserve a Voice Before Polluters Break Ground
To put a finer point on what is happening: EPA is trying to change the definition of “begin actual construction” to allow major polluters to excavate land and put in foundations, structures, and utilities without even notifying people about their plans. Does this seem just to you?
Once the polluting corporation has invested millions of dollars in the new facility, it becomes virtually impossible to stop it. This means more of these dirty facilities and more life-altering illnesses for children and families, including
- families where I live in Virginia, where data centers are blanketing the air with soot and formaldehyde, linked to cardiovascular and respiratory illness and dementia,
- parents in the Houston Ship Channel, where children face leukemia due to 1,3-butadiene exposures from the petrochemical facilities surrounding their homes, and
- anyone living in Los Angeles who spent Memorial Day weekend in evacuation shelters amid a whopping four simultaneous chemical disasters.
Join Moms today in calling out this latest Trump EPA effort to dismantle our nation’s health and safety rules. It’s well past time for EPA to return to its historic mission of protecting the environment and people’s health.
Tell EPA: Families Deserve a Voice Before Polluters Break Ground