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BREAKING: @EPA has taken major steps to protect fenceline communities by proposing long-overdue updates to two rules to reduce cancer-causing air pollution from petrochemical facilities.

This is a win for every community known as “cancer alley” due to these pollutants. 🧵 FILE - In this March 11, 20...
For the first time ever, @EPA considered the cumulative impact that multiple air polluters have on fenceline communities when updating rules 👏 #ProtectOurAir #PetrochemRule ejus.tc/433WCJ8
EPA’s proposed petrochemical rules stem from two consent decrees we fought alongside @SierraClub, @EnviroIntegrity, and more environmental advocates ✊nytimes.com/2023/04/06/cli…
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🚀 Launch day! New study from @HarvardCCHANGE: burning gas, biomass, & wood now has MORE negative health impacts than coal in many states. 1st study to inventory health impacts of each fuel burned at stationary sources over last 10 years. To protect health, we must #ProtectOurAir Image
Air pollution costs us. It is no longer mostly from coal. In 2017, air pollution from buildings, power plants, industrial boilers, and other industries were responsible for an estimated 48-64,000 early deaths. Between 70 -77% are from burning gas, wood, biomass.😲 Image
Air pollution from buildings, power plants, industrial boilers, and other industries were responsible for an estimated $615 billion in health impacts in 2017. That’s a lot of 🤑, consider that only 6 companies have ever been valued at over $600B.
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