Only four days remain for citizens to demand that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) allow states to legally regulate global warming pollution from cars. At UCS we are doing everything we can right now to ensure the voices of tens of thousands of concerned citizens are heard in Washington. If you care about a healthy environment and want more consumer choices for clean cars, this is your chance to make a real difference. 
 

This decision is not only key to state plans to curb global warming pollution, but also represents a major step forward in our work to implement national solutions to the problem of climate change. The stakes could not be higher.

Leading up to this deadline, UCS has been pulling out all the stops to counter automakers' attempts to undermine this process. We must ensure that the EPA, Congress, and state governments are guided by sound science—not automaker spin. ...

With your support, we will:

*provide unbiased technical analysis to Congress, the EPA, and the president's Auto Task Force to ensure they have the data they need to implement sound policies that will reduce global warming pollution, create auto industry jobs and help revitalize the industry, bolster the economy, and provide consumers with more fuel-efficient vehicle choices;

*organize thousands of activists to submit comments to the EPA in support of state clean car standards in order to counter the anti-clean car comments generated by the automakers; and

*encourage more states to adopt these clean car standards. To date, 14 states have adopted them and many more—including Iowa just last month—have introduced clean cars bills into their state legislatures.
 

This is our chance to provide consumers with cleaner vehicle choices, to help transform the auto industry into a key component of a clean energy economy, and to reduce global warming pollution.

The Union of Concerned Scientists is the leading U.S. science-based nonprofit organization working for a healthy environment and a safer world. Founded in 1969, UCS is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and also has offices in Berkeley, Chicago and Washington, D.C. To subscribe or visit go to:  http://www.ucsusa.org