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Spotlight: The EPA under attack
Act: Urge EPA to clean up our air now
Take action here for clean air!
Please submit a public comment to the EPA in support of strong air toxics rules here, urging further action to get mercury and arsenic out of our air and thanking them for their proposed safeguards.
The Environmental Protection Agency is under attack from big business and dirty energy lobbyists. It needs to be allowed to do its job to protect the air we breathe, the water we drink, and our public health. In our EPA 101 guide and other materials below, we detail why the EPA must protect Americans from dangerous pollution while moving the clean economy forward.
CAP’s work below provides additional insight from the business, faith, and energy security angles into why the EPA must be allowed to protect Americans.
Recent CAP features on the EPA:
Join the Campaign to Fight Asthma in Communities of Color:
The Center for American Progress Action Fund is leading a campaign to curb asthma and other harmful health effects from coal-fired power plants. Here’s how you can help.
Fighting Asthma and Cleaning Up Our Air:
Susan Lyon and Jorge Madrid discuss the growing costs of asthma in the United States and how a new EPA rule would help lessen the pollution that aggravates the disease.
Why the EPA Is Important for Latino Families:
The Environmental Protection Agency is a “green line of defense” for Latino families, write Jorge Madrid and Valeri Vasquez. Latinos should reject conservative attacks against it.
The Business Case for EPA Rulemaking :
Susan Lyon and Kate Gordon detail how EPA’s regulations help give businesses the certainty they need to innovate and create jobs.
The Most Important Energy Bill in American History:
Bracken Hendricks and Jorge Madrid document the Recovery Act’s impressive benefits to our clean energy economy. We must continue this momentum.
EPA and Greenhouse Gases 101:
Jake Caldwell on why preventing the EPA from regulating greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act is dangerous and a threat to public health.
Spotlight: Green jobs and the growing green economy
The clean energy economy is the key to unlocking green jobs, protecting public health, and positioning America as a global leader in the 21st century—all while reducing our dependence on dirty, dangerous fossil fuels and combating global warming.
But conservatives and dirty energy lobbyists are busy attacking green jobs, funneling dirty money to dirty energy campaigns to make the case that we should continue to subsidize and rely on volatile, dangerous sources such as coal and oil. The following resources push back against their false claims. Please visit our Economic Benefits of Clean Energy page to learn more.
Low-carbon Innovation:
Bracken Hendricks, Sean Pool, and Lisbeth Kaufman explain how low-carbon industrial strategies can ensure American sustained leadership in innovation.
How to Shape the Clean Energy Future of the United States:
A Clean Energy Standard is a primary way for the United States to compete in the trillion-dollar renewable energy technologies market. Richard W. Caperton, Kate Gordon, Bracken Hendricks, and Daniel J. Weiss propose core principles to guide its design.
Putting America Back to Work with Clean Energy:
Richard Caperton and Adam Hersh explain the benefits of investing in green jobs.
Invest in America’s Clean Energy Future:
The House budget proposal would effectively end the DOE loan guarantee program, writes Richard W. Caperton. This puts America’s competitiveness and national security at risk.
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