Last week, the U.S. Senate voted to let the nation’s most toxic polluters permanently turn off their pollution controls for the most potent carcinogens.
This is an outrage. But the fight is not over yet—it has just moved to the House of Representatives. Moms are sounding the alarm.
Tell the House: 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.
This means chemical plants, refineries, and pesticide manufacturers in neighborhoods throughout the country would release into the air unlimited amounts of these chemicals, which cause cancer, birth defects, and brain damage.
I am fuming. We must all raise our voices to stop this from happening. Congress must keep in place the pollution control requirements 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