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Take Action: Stop Coal Ash from Posing Serious Health Risks
Coal ash pollution is poisoning our environment, affecting our wildlife, and causing serious health problems. Take action!
Goal: 30,000
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Progress: 5,518
Sponsored by: The Rainforest Site
Coal ash seeps into our water and atmosphere as deadly toxins are emitted from coal plants and coal disposal sites. The runoff contains toxic chemicals like mercury, lead, selenium, and disturbingly, arsenic. This pollution significantly increases risks for cancer and other serious health defects.
The seriousness of this problem is no secret to the EPA, yet no regulations have been put in place that would protect us from this pollution.
We need comprehensive regulations and standards implemented in order to ensure coal ash doesn't pollute our environment and subsequently pose grave public health risks. Sign the petition asking EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to stop stalling on this issue and see to it that coal ash doesn't threaten our health, animal life, or the environment any longer.
Dear Administrator Jackson,
Coal ash pollution is causing serious health and environmental problems, and as of yet nothing has been done to combat its effects.
Coal ash runoff enters our air and our water-waste ponds, and landfills drain into drinking water supplies. The toxins consequently end up in our drinking water, which carries such chemicals as mercury, lead, boron, arsenic, selenium, cadmium, and thallium. Many of these toxic substances have been linked to the development of cancer cells in humans.
Coal ash has poisoned at least 23 states' water supplies. This pollution must come to an end. There is simply no reason not to place regulations on a substance that is causing cancer, birth defects, and other serious health problems.
Please work to implement strict coal ash waste standards so that we may exist in a cleaner environment and live healthier lives.
Thank you for considering my comments.
Petition Signatures
May 13, 2013
Rosemary Webber
May 12, 2013
Mary Thomas
May 11, 2013
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May 11, 2013
Brandi Dege
May 11, 2013
Martina Salobir
May 10, 2013
Ron Avila
May 10, 2013
Phyllis O'Reilly
May 10, 2013
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Keep the coal ash waste standards up to date.
May 10, 2013
Dajenne Dijkshoorn
May 10, 2013
Trudy Shively
May 10, 2013
Liette Pedraza
May 10, 2013
Liliana Dulgheroiu
May 10, 2013
Catharine McEachern
May 9, 2013
N. M.
May 9, 2013
Aline Juncarol
May 8, 2013
Carla Herwitz
May 8, 2013
Nicola Marsden
May 7, 2013
Jade Kiran
"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
May 7, 2013
Nicole Moore
May 7, 2013
Kristi Denham
May 6, 2013
Diane Lawson
May 4, 2013
emma monk
May 4, 2013
Valeska Gann
May 2, 2013
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May 1, 2013
Kathy McLean
May 1, 2013
Debbie Salvesen
May 1, 2013
Chris Engleman
Apr 30, 2013
Kimberly Ross
Apr 30, 2013
Julia Wellman
Apr 30, 2013
Kathleen Keske
Apr 30, 2013
Gabriel Restrepo
Apr 30, 2013
Louise Perreault
Apr 30, 2013
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Apr 30, 2013
Madison Vick
Sign people!!
Apr 30, 2013
Joyce Johnson
Apr 30, 2013
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Apr 30, 2013
jerry severino
Apr 30, 2013
Christy Summerfield
This is such a no-brainer. Stop the poisoning of our air, water, land, people and animals now.
Apr 30, 2013
Chris Leehey
Apr 30, 2013
Baiba Grasman
Apr 30, 2013
Sarah Hafer
Apr 30, 2013
Barbara Silvia Calamai
Apr 29, 2013
sophia harris
Apr 28, 2013
Barbara Koval
Apr 28, 2013
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Apr 28, 2013
Janice Elton
Apr 27, 2013
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Apr 27, 2013
Humberto de Matos
Apr 27, 2013
Laura Zander Racic
Apr 27, 2013
Morag Miller
