Dear Andyh,
16,945.
That's how many Earthjustice supporters have already written to the Environmental Protection Agency asking for strong air pollution protections from oil and gas development.
But EPA needs to hear from many more of us. Help us send 30,000 letters to EPA—sending a clear message that we need to clean up the air in areas of the country undergoing a massive drilling boom.
How bad is the air in these areas? Well in the drilling rig-studded Upper Green River Basin of Wyoming, levels of smog-forming ozone reached 123 parts per billion earlier this year—worse than the worst day in Los Angeles all last year.
It's not just the people of Wyoming who are noticing a problem. A controversial technology called hydraulic fracturing—or fracking—has led to a gas drilling boom from Colorado to Pennsylvania. But federal air pollution protections for drilling are woefully outdated and do not cover most pollution sources. That means that people who live near the gasfields are left with lung-burning smog and cancer-causing benzene.
With your help, we can start changing that. Under a set of rules proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency, oil and gas drillers would be required to use equipment to capture significant amounts of air pollution before it can harm public health.
We have just two weeks left to make our voices heard. Will you join thousands of others in sending a message to EPA? Send your letter:
http://action.earthjustice.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1187
Thank you,
— Earthjustice
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