The Clean Air Act 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.   

Gutting the Clean Air Act by removing EPA's authority to regulate
greenhouse gases -- particularly from huge sources such as coal-fired
power plants -- moves us in precisely the wrong direction on global
warming.  

In its first two decades alone, the Act provided benefits 42 times
greater than the estimated costs of regulation, including decreased
healthcare costs and reduced lost work time worth $22.2 trillion.  

And, the Clean Air Act already provides many of the necessary tools to
reduce greenhouse pollutants.  Under the Act, new coal-fired power plants
must be built, if at all, with meaningful greenhouse emissions-reduction
requirements.  

Rather than preventing the EPA from fulfilling its duties under the Act,
we should be moving swiftly to use the Act to curb global warming, before
it's too late.  

Please take one minute today to send a letter to your Senator letting
them know we need to curb global warming, we need the Clean Air Act to do
so, and we need to oppose all moves to gut the Act 
 Chuck Grassley Phone:(202) 224-3744 Fax:(202) 224-6020  Tom Harkin 
Phone:(202) 224-3254 Fax:(202) 224-9369



 
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