No one wants to breathe dirty car exhaust. But last week, EPA proposed to delay strong car tailpipe pollution protections that were finalized in 2024—safeguards projected to prevent thousands of asthma attacks, save thousands of lives, and avoid billions in U.S. health care costs.
This proposed delay is yet another attack on our children’s health from an EPA that’s content to prioritize industry over their actual mission: protecting human health and the environment. Stand with Moms in calling for Clean Cars safeguards now.
Tell EPA: Families Can’t Afford to Delay Tailpipe Pollution Protections
Children’s bodies are uniquely vulnerable to the health harms of tailpipe pollution. Exposure to car exhaust can damage little lungs, brains, and immune systems at critical stages of development, putting babies and kids at risk for long-term health problems.
As moms, we know far too well what it’s like to have a child with asthma or another respiratory condition that makes exposure to tailpipe pollution especially scary. And in summer months, when climate-fueled heat can make air pollution even worse, the danger feels even greater.
So many of us have experienced watching a child with asthma struggle to breathe. It’s devastating. And in this economy, no family needs extra trips to the doctor, emergency room, or pharmacy because of preventable exposure to filthy tailpipe pollution. Extra health care costs are yet another way our families are paying the price for the Trump-Zeldin EPA’s corrupt Polluters First agenda.
Join Moms in telling EPA: do not delay implementing the Clean Cars protections our families and communities deserve.
Read more about Moms’ work on tailpipe pollution.
Tell EPA: Families Can’t Afford to Delay Tailpipe Pollution Protections