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Last chance: Take action for clean air!

NOTE: I received this a couple of days ago and the deadline is soon, so hopefully you will sign this today! Click on green link ellensue

Earth Day, Every Day!

Quick update here:

You might have heard that proposed updates to the Environmental Protection Agency’s Cross-State Air Pollution Rule will help protect our communities from dangerous air pollution. It’s critical that this proposed rule is enacted, and we need your support now.

EPA is open to comments for just a few more days, and we haven’t seen your name yet. Will you take action today?

Too often, this pollution just blows downwind to another state, contributing to asthma, heart and lung disease, and other respiratory issues in a community that had nothing to do with the facility. Because for decades, dirty fossil fuel power plants and industrial facilities have spewed dangerous nitrous oxides (NOx) and other pollutants into the atmosphere and counted on the wind to carry these chemicals far away. But out of sight isn’t out of the air.

The proposed rule update ensures upwind states limit their pollution to protect people in downwind states that often can do nothing to curb these emissions to protect their residents. It would also expand the scope of the current rule to include additional industrial sources of air pollution and expand the rule’s coverage to even more states.

Ozone and smog-forming pollution can sicken millions of people. Even worse, this pollution inevitably hits frontline communities, including communities of color, hardest.

Don’t miss your chance to tell EPA to finalize this proposal to ensure that we can all live healthier and breathe easier.

Thanks for everything you do for the planet,

-Your friends at Climate Reality

The Climate Reality Project
555 11th Street NW
Suite 601
Washington, DC 20004
United States

My friend Honey keeps me informed of environmental updates and petitions. This is an especially good one! Thanx, Honey. Click on the title, ex. “Rachel was Right,” to read entire article or click on Read More or Act Now. Any of these “buttons” should activate the messages.

P.S. The right hand margin will be covered by the articles.

Rachel was right

Yet another scientific study, released today, shows just how deadly our chemical-intensive farming system has become to pollinators and other insects. The findings should concern us all. In short, U.S. farmland is 48 times more toxic to insects than it was 20 years ago. This is a staggering number.

PAN sues EPA — again

This week, PAN joined a coalition of groups to sue the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) — again — for refusing to ban the potent brain-harming pesticide chlorpyrifos. This lawsuit, filed by attorneys from Earth Justice representing PAN and other allied organizations, demands that the pesticide be banned nationwide due to its harms to vulnerable populations like children and farmworkers.

Parity pricing: for climate and economic justice

Farmers are calling for parity pricing, which refers to federal policies that establish a relationship between farm commodity prices and farmers’ costs of production, ensuring farmers are fairly compensated for their products — like a minimum wage for farmers. But what does parity pricing have to do with the climate crisis?