Received this e-mail today from PennEnvironment:
Only days into a new Congressional Session, our senators have proposed that some of the dirtiest coal-waste power plants should no longer be required to meet critical health-based mercury pollution limits.[1]
These limits were designed to protect our health: 1 in 10 women have enough mercury in their blood to put a child at risk of serious developmental damage. And it doesn't take much pollution. Studies suggest that even a gram-sized drop of mercury can contaminate an entire 20 acre lake.[2][3]
Click here to send our senators a clear message: don't sacrifice our health and the health of our kids for the dirty power companies.
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We've made real headway over the years to reduce mercury pollution from the worst source -- dirty coal-fired power plants. Those efforts culminated in a new law in 2012 that would slash this pollution by 90%.
That's why I was so shocked to hear that senators Casey and Toomey were pushing to exempt some of the dirtiest power plants from meeting the health-based standards that will protect us from mercury pollution.
We can't afford to go back to the way things were, and give some of the worst polluters a free pass when it comes to putting our health and the health of our kids at risk. Click here to tell our senators that we deserve real solutions, not dangerous cop outs.
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Sincerely,
David Masur
PennEnvironment Executive Director
P.S. The more people who take action on this the better. Please post this link to facebook or share it on twitter, so we can show our representatives we're not about to compromise on our health.
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[1] Olson, Lauren.Toomey, Casey agree: Exempt waste coal power plant from pollution rules. The Morning Call, January 16, 2015
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[2] America's Biggest Mercury Polluters: How Cleaning up the Dirtiest Power Plants will Protect Public Health. Environment America, November, 17,2011.
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[3]New Report: Mercury Pollution from Power Plants a Major Threat to American's Health, Environment. Environment America, January 26, 2011.
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