Tell Your Senator to Protect Public Health

The Clean Air Act has a 40-year track record of using sound science to save lives, protect human health, and safeguard our environment. In 2010 alone it prevented an estimated 160,000 premature deaths and delivered net benefits of $1.2 trillion. And yet, certain senators have attempted to undermine the Clean Air Act by working to prevent the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from reducing dangerous global warming emissions. 

Just last week, senators Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), John Rockefeller (D-WV), and Max Baucus (D-MT) all proposed legislative amendments that would have prevented the EPA from protecting us from dangerous climate change. These amendments ignored the agency's scientific assessment that global warming emissions endanger public health and attacked its authority to promptly address that threat.

While the amendments were defeated, your senator voted for one or more of these anti-science, anti-health measures, and similar attacks on the Clean Air Act are sure to continue.

Please write to express your disappointment and remind your senator that constituents do not send legislators to Washington to attack science and undermine protections for public health and the environment.

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Sincerely,

Kate Abend
National Field Organizer
UCS Climate and Energy Program

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