An important public service announcement for PA...Your Help Needed to Support Strong Mercury Regulations!Contact information:
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is holding a 60-day public comment period on their proposal to reduce mercury emissions from coal plants 90% by 2015. Please take a moment to send an e-mail to the Environmental Quality Board, which is a state regulatory body that makes decisions on all proposed state environmental regulations. Let them know that you support DEP's proposed mercury emission reduction rule.
CLICK HERE to take action now!
What the problem? Right now, it's unsafe to eat too much fish caught in our state because of the high levels of mercury in our fish. Mercury is a persistent, toxic pollutant that can cause permanent damage to the brains of children. EPA estimates that over 600,000 babies nationally are exposed to levels of mercury that can cause health effects. Over 80% of the mercury emitted in PA comes from coal burning power plants - in fact, we're #2 in the U.S. for mercury emissions!
Act today! The public comment deadline is August 26.
We need people to flood the state with comments supporting DEP's proposal for strong mercury regulations. The power industry and coal industry are still fighting hard to prevent these common sense health protections from being put into place. Sending an e-mail through our website only takes a second.
CLICK HERE to send an e-mail supporting strong mercury regulations for Pennsylvania.
Thanks for your support! With your help, we fought off an effort by polluters to ram a bad bill through the legislature before the start of summer. Together, we can keep winning, getting DEP's proposed regulation adopted by the EQB and putting good rules in place to protect our children.
Myron Arnowitt
Western PA Director
Clean Water Action
100 Fifth Ave., #1108
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
412-765-3053, ext. 203
marnowitt@cleanwater.org
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