Tell Obama and the EPA We Need Clean Air Regulations to Protect Our Communities From Power plants
Did you catch President Obama's State of the Union address?
The President discussed a bold plan that stresses American innovation to create clean energy jobs and put Americans back to work. We're excited about the President's forward vision - but Republicans are already looking to roll back environmental protections that will hurt our economy and make our families sick.
I wish I were exaggerating, but just yesterday Newt Gingrich announced that the EPA should be abolished.1 Really.
Sign our petition to demand Obama stand up for our health against Republican attacks!
The Sierra Club is launching a massive grassroots blizzard with powerful activities all across the country aimed at reminding the new Congress and Obama Administration that they need to keep standing up for the health and protection of our families, not Big Oil and Coal polluters.
Our first step is to to hand-deliver 100,000 signatures to the White House to stress that the nation's physical and economic well-being depends on passing and enforcing strong environmental standards to protect our health and our economy. Together, we can turn back the tide!
Please add your name to the petition to protect our health from pollution!
Big Coal and Big Oil are working with their allies in Congress to eviscerate our health safeguards - this is a real and urgent threat to each and every one of us. As EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson has pointed out, making polluters clean up their act during the past 40 years not only saved millions of American lives, but also has added trillions of dollars to our economy.2
Yet Rep. Carter (R-TX) has already gotten the demolition ball rolling by attempting to use an obscure procedure called the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to shutdown the EPA's finalized standards to control extremely toxic air emissions from cement plants.
This one obscure rule alone is a big deal for the health of everyone you care about. Cement plants are the third largest emitter of dangerous, mercury pollution. The new EPA standards will prevent up to 2,500 premature deaths a year along with 130,000 days of work missed due to pollution related health problems.3 Imagine cutting more rules like this. It's a stark choice. We know Carter and his friends have decided to stand with corporate greed. Let's make sure that Obama stands with us.
Next year's State of the Union can be the story of how we beat back polluters to defend our health.
Did you catch President Obama's State of the Union address?
The President discussed a bold plan that stresses American innovation to create clean energy jobs and put Americans back to work. We're excited about the President's forward vision - but Republicans are already looking to roll back environmental protections that will hurt our economy and make our families sick.
I wish I were exaggerating, but just yesterday Newt Gingrich announced that the EPA should be abolished.1 Really.
Sign our petition to demand Obama stand up for our health against Republican attacks!
The Sierra Club is launching a massive grassroots blizzard with powerful activities all across the country aimed at reminding the new Congress and Obama Administration that they need to keep standing up for the health and protection of our families, not Big Oil and Coal polluters.
Our first step is to to hand-deliver 100,000 signatures to the White House to stress that the nation's physical and economic well-being depends on passing and enforcing strong environmental standards to protect our health and our economy. Together, we can turn back the tide!
Please add your name to the petition to protect our health from pollution!
Big Coal and Big Oil are working with their allies in Congress to eviscerate our health safeguards - this is a real and urgent threat to each and every one of us. As EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson has pointed out, making polluters clean up their act during the past 40 years not only saved millions of American lives, but also has added trillions of dollars to our economy.2
Yet Rep. Carter (R-TX) has already gotten the demolition ball rolling by attempting to use an obscure procedure called the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to shutdown the EPA's finalized standards to control extremely toxic air emissions from cement plants.
This one obscure rule alone is a big deal for the health of everyone you care about. Cement plants are the third largest emitter of dangerous, mercury pollution. The new EPA standards will prevent up to 2,500 premature deaths a year along with 130,000 days of work missed due to pollution related health problems.3 Imagine cutting more rules like this. It's a stark choice. We know Carter and his friends have decided to stand with corporate greed. Let's make sure that Obama stands with us.
Next year's State of the Union can be the story of how we beat back polluters to defend our health.
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