Defend the Clean Air Act

Clean Air Act under attack -- Philadelphia health
leaders urge Senate to protect public health

WHAT: This fall marks the 40th anniversary of the Clean Air Act, one of America's most effective and beneficial pieces of public health legislation. Studies show that the benefits of the Clean Air Act outweigh the costs 42-to-1. Yet the Clean Air Act is under attack by U.S. Senators who wrongfully seek to restrict the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) authority to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. A vote on a bill to delay EPA from protecting Americans from harmful pollution could come as soon as mid-November.

WHEN: November 15, 2010, 10:00 a.m.

WHERE: Thomas Jefferson University, Dorrance H. Hamilton Building, Room 213, 1001 Locust St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107

WHO: Doctors, health professionals and environmental leaders speak up and urge Senators Arlen Specter and Robert P. Casey, Jr. to protect the Clean Air Act from attacks in the U.S. Senate.

SPEAKERS:
Katie Feeney
Global Warming Policy Analyst, Clean Air Council

Dr. Walter Tsou
Former President, American Public Health Association, 2005
Former Health Commissioner, Philadelphia Dept. of Public Health, 2000-2002

Jeanette MacNeille
Speaking as a person affected with asthma

Kevin Stewart
Director of Environmental Health for the American Lung
Association (ALA) of the Mid-Atlantic

Joseph O. Minott, Esq.
Executive Director, Clean Air Council

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Clean Air Council is a member- supported, non-profit environmental organization dedicated to protecting everyone's right to breathe clean air. The Council works through public education, community advocacy, and government oversight to ensure enforcement of environmental laws. For more information visit www.cleanair.org

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News & Politics

Tags:

• Clean
• Air
• Council
• Act
• Dirty
• EPA
• Global
• Warming
• quality

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