Dear John,

Clean air is crucial to human health.

Exposure to soot (fine particle pollution in the air) can cause heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and aggravated asthma. It is also associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes and shorter life expectancies.

Soot pollution is a big problem across the Midwest, especially for those living near highways.
 
It is critical that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) set the strongest possible standards to protect clean air. When air pollution standards are outdated and insufficient, it hurts our environment and everyone's health.

Recently, EPA released a proposed new standard for regulating soot, but it doesn't go far enough. The proposed standard needs to prioritize people over the interests of fossil fuel industries and big polluters. The EPA needs to know that this is not ok.

Will you submit a comment urging them to finalize stronger clean air protections?

After nearly a year of regulatory delay, EPA's proposed soot pollution rules don’t follow the recommendations from their own independent scientific experts. EPA seems to have favored big polluters and proposed standards that are too weak to protect human health.

We must speak up and demand that EPA finalize soot standards that put public health and our environment first.

Please lend your voice and submit a comment to the EPA in support of stronger soot pollution limits.
 
Thank you for your consideration.
 

Ann Mesnikoff
Federal Legislative Director 
Environmental Law & Policy Center