Let the EPA know how outraged you are
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Dear John,

Air pollution rollbacks will make coronavirus worse.

Tell the EPA this is unacceptable!
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The audacity is astounding.

While Governors, healthcare workers and communities all across the nation
wrestle with the coronavirus, Trump is busy giving the fossil fuel industry
license to pollute.

It’s true. Just days apart, the American people were told to prepare for the
deadliest two weeks of Covid-19 — a virus that affects the respiratory system — and that the EPA would suspend or rollback environmental regulations affecting
air pollution. This is an outrage.

Email the EPA today and demand that this agency place the health of the American
people above the profit of polluting industries.
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Pollution and poor air quality increase incidences of respiratory illness, and
makes thousands of Americans particularly vulnerable to Covid-19. A new study
directly links higher air pollution to higher death rates from the virus. 1 To relax air quality regulation in the midst of a pandemic that attacks the
respiratory system seems unthinkable. And yet, that is what Trump’s EPA just
did.

From day one, Trump has made it his mission to dismantle environmental
protections in favor of the big polluters — enacting nearly 100 regulatory
rollbacks so far. The most recent, taken by EPA Administrator and former coal
lobbyist, Andrew Wheeler, indefinitely suspends the monitoring and reporting
requirements of polluting industries. So, while we struggle with a deadly health
crisis, Trump has given fossil fuel industries the go ahead to poison our
communities without oversight or repercussions. Imagine the coal ash that will
be dumped, the methane gas that will flare and the excessive discharge of heavy
metals like arsenic, lead and mercury that will be released into our water
supplies.

We need your help in emailing the EPA to demand that this agency protect rather
than hurt the health outcomes of the nation.
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There’s more. Trump’s EPA also announced rollbacks to Obama-era fuel economy
regulations; climate legislation aimed to reduce carbon emissions by requiring
automakers to increase fuel efficiency by 5% each year until 2026. Under Trump’s
new plan, fuel efficiency requirements will plummet to 1.5%, increasing
greenhouse gas emissions by a projected 1 billion tons in the next 20 years -
causing higher rates of asthma, cardiovascular disease and respiratory failure.
Loosening air quality regulations during a pandemic that affects the respiratory
system is not only appalling, it's deadly. Clearly, Trump’s EPA is working
against its own mandate to protect and is complicit in endangering the health of
the nation.

Send an email to the EPA and demand that it considers the health of the nation
over the interests of the fossil fuel industry.
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The Trump Administration’s blatant disregard for science has never been so
cruel. Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to die from Covid-19. Job
losses are staggering, approaching numbers not seen since the Great Depression.
And while healthcare workers put their lives on the line and essential workers
put themselves at risk each day, the multi-billion dollar fossil fuel industry,
along with their allies in the Trump Administration are capitalizing on the
pandemic — exacerbating the coronavirus crisis and the climate crisis for a
profit.

This is unacceptable. We at the Chesapeake Climate Action Network are putting
pressure on the EPA to do its job. At a time when the world is experiencing the
worst public health crisis in a century we should be doing everything in our
power to protect our most precious resources - clean air and clean water. Help
us as we struggle to create a better world today and for the future. Email the administrator of the EPA today.
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Sincerely,



Mike Tidwell
Executive Director
Chesapeake Climate Action Network

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1) "New Research Links Air Pollution to Higher Coronavirus Death Rates," New York Times
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