Agency Urging Citizens Not to Allow More Lead Pollution

Care2.com is urging citizens not to let the Environmental Proteciton Agency (EPA to allow more lead pollution.

"Lead is one of the most harmful toxins on Earth," said Lauren of Care 2. "Yet the EPA is considering removing lead from the list of pollutants it controls under the Clean Air Act."

According to Care 2 literature, ingestion or inhalation of even low levels of lead poses severe risks to humans. Federal regulation over the last three decades has reduced the quantity of lead in people's blood by over 78 percent, a crowning achievement of the Clean Air Act, research states.

"This reduction in lead exposure should be considered a huge success, but that doesn't mean regulation of lead pollution should stop entirely," said Lauren.

You can sign the petition asking the EPA to continue protecting your air from dangerous lead pollution by going to go.care2.com.

In other environmental news, in Fort Worth, TX proposed and ongoing efforts to reduce air pollution in North Central Texas were outlined in four public hearings being conducted by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

"Air quality is an issue that should interest almost everyone in the region," stated a local staff editorial. "High concentration of ground-level ozone can trigger asthma attacks, hinder lung development in children, and aggravate emphysema, bronchitis, and other respiratory ailments."

The hearings focused on a proposed implementation plan for the DFW area to meet a new federal eight-hour ozone standard.

"Now is the time to let your voices be heard by the state environmental agency (TCEQ) about their failures to clean up our air," stated a Downwinders at Risk rep before the hearings.

Downwinders is a local environmental activist group.

In unrelated environmental news, a petition is being circulated by Care2.com regarding saving the wolf.

"I couldn't put a price tag for a mother wolf with pup in tow, but the Idaho Fish and Gaming Commission just did," said Hilary Stamper of Care 2. "For just $26.50, Idaho residents can go kill one of an estimated 650 wolves in Idaho."