You just have to listen to them.
The air pollution spewed from fossil fuel-fired power plants, automobile tailpipes and oil and gas wells isn’t a future threat — it’s already hurting people with chronic health conditions and cutting lives short.
Every day we wait to slash fossil fuel pollution puts more people at risk of suffering.
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At the direction of President Trump, EPA Administrator and former coal lobbyist Andrew Wheeler has put forth a plan to revoke the Clean Power Plan, America’s first-ever standards to reduce dangerous carbon pollution from large power plants.
The toothless “replacement” plan offered by Wheeler has NO limits on climate pollution and NO deadlines.
According to EPA’s own scientists, revoking the Clean Power Plan would cause up to:
- 3,600 premature deaths,
- 1,700 heart attacks,
- 90,000 childhood asthma attacks, and
- 400,000 missed days of work and school
—every year.
EPA’s mission is to protect public health and the environment.
Full stop.
Rolling back and delaying standards that protect us from dangerous air pollution is a failure of leadership that flies in the face of that bi-partisan, 49-year tradition.
Your donation to hold EPA accountable and defend American climate action will be tripled in value by a long-time EDF member only if it is received by midnight tonight.
Thank you for protecting and defending our future,
Sam Parry
Director, Membership