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Fight for the Clean Air Act and Help Reduce Global Warming
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      • The U.S. Senate
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    Bryan D. Freehling
    Lahaska, PA
About this Petition Petition Letter

Several weeks ago, Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski blocked attempts to raise the ludicrously low cap on oil-company liability for catastrophes such as the Gulf of Mexico explosion and spill. Later, Senator Murkowski attempted to stop the EPA from implementing one of our most successful environmental laws -- the Clean Air Act -- to curb global warming. 

The EPA's recent common-sense finding that greenhouse gas pollution endangers public health -- a finding years in the making and finally ordered as a result of a Supreme Court decision -- is the first step in actually implementing the Clean Air Act to curb greenhouse pollution

Senator Murkowski's "Dirty Air Act," has been heard in the Senate; it would reverse this gain and stop the EPA from using the Clean Air Act to curb global warming.

Please sign the petition below urging your senators you oppose the "Dirty Air Act" and instruct then that they should oppose all efforts to scratch the Clean Air Act, whether standalone or included in climate legislation.

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Fight for the Clean Air Act

Greetings,

As oil continues to spill into the Gulf of Mexico, please vote NO on Senator Murkowski's amendment to reverse the EPA's finding that greenhouse gases endanger public health under the Clean Air Act, and please OPPOSE any moves to roll back the Act.

In response to the science and a Supreme Court ruling, the EPA is finally enforcing one of our nation's most successful environmental laws, the Clean Air Act, in the urgent fight against global warming. The Clean Air Act works and provides proven, successful tools for reducing greenhouse pollution; it has protected the air we breathe for four decades and is directly responsible for saving lives, improving health, and decreasing hospitalizations and lost school and work days. According to the EPA, in 2010 the Clean Air Act will save 23,000 lives and prevent 1.7 million asthma attacks, 4.1 million lost work days, and more than 68,000 hospitalizations and emergency-room visits.

The Clean Air Act saves money and protects our economy. In its first two decades alone, the Act provided pollution reduction benefits 42 times greater than the estimated costs of regulation, including decreased health care costs and reduced lost work time worth $22.2 trillion.

If implemented by the EPA as required by existing law, the Clean Air Act will produce similar benefits while reducing greenhouse pollutants and moving us away from our dangerous dependence on fossil fuels.

Please oppose Senator Murkowski's amendment to reverse the EPA's endangerment finding and any attempts to roll back the Clean Air Act's ability to curb greenhouse gas pollution.

Thank you for your time and consideration in this serious matter.

Yours sincerely,

[Your name]

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