The Clean Air Act Where You Live

"This Administration has taken a series of reasonable, common-sense steps under the Clean Air Act – many of which are decades over due and issued in response to court orders – to reduce emissions of mercury, acid gas, particulate matter, arsenic and other harmful chemicals from some of the biggest polluters in the nation. Two of these, the Cross State Air Pollution Rule and the proposed Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, will save tens of thousands of lives, prevent hundreds of thousands of asthma and heart attacks and avert millions of missed school and work days – yielding hundreds of billions of dollars in benefits to our communities. The Cross State Air Pollution Rule ensures that hundreds of millions of Americans from the midwest to the East Coast are not forced to breathe air pollution from other states."