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It's the EPA’s job to ensure that we have good air quality, including in our national parks. To protect the health of people who visit our parks and ensure that they can enjoy incredible places like Yosemite, Glacier, and Acadia National Parks, Congress required the EPA to use the Clean Air Act to deliver cleaner air for parks, through what is known as the Regional Haze Rule. |
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Last month, the Trump EPA announced it would continue its pro-polluter agenda by reconsidering this important rule. Weakening what could be called the “Clean Air for Parks Rule” will lead to dirtier air and lower visibility in national parks from pollution that drifts in from dirty coal power plants and industrial facilities. Big polluters will be off the hook for haze pollution, and our national parks and public health will suffer. |
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The Clean Air for Parks Rule has already delivered significant benefits since its implementation 15 years ago, including reducing 1.4 million tons of visibility-impairing and asthma and heart-attack triggering pollution and over 171 million tons of climate pollution. This rule works, and weakening it will make air quality worse while giving corporations and polluters another corrupt handout at our expense. |
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We can’t allow the EPA to weaken this time-tested and highly effective rule that allows federal and state agencies, land managers, and stakeholders to work together to clean up air pollution so we can breathe clean air and enjoy our national parks and wilderness areas. |
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Thanks for being with us, Friend. |
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Matthew Davis
Vice President of Federal Policy
League of Conservation Voters |
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