Don’t Delay, Clean Air Today: Keep Clean Air Protections in Place

The need to clean up air pollution and address climate change is more urgent than ever. But the safeguards and programs that protect people from air pollution are at risk of getting rolled back. 

Under its current leadership, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced plans to roll back, weaken or delay lifesaving air pollution protections, including: 

• Rolling back strict limits on mercury and air toxics from power plants

• Rolling back limits on the carbon pollution that drives climate change from power plants
• Rolling back and failing to enforce strong limits on methane pollution from the oil and gas industry
• Reconsidering the strong national standard for particle pollution 
• Rolling back standards to make new cars and new trucks cleaner

We were proud of successfully advocating for all these protections to be finalized. We worked with health organizations, health professionals and advocates all over the country to push EPA to put them in place. Not surprisingly, these rules are popular. We conducted polls that show that the public supports cleaning up power plants and reducing emissions from new cars and trucks.  

But now, we all most stand together and oppose blocking, rolling back or weakening these rules. Join us in calling for our decision-makers to keep protecting lung health and ensuring air pollution cleanup.