Take Action: Tell EPA to Start Cutting Global Warming Pollution from Passenger Vehicles!

Tell EPA to Start Cutting Global Warming Pollution from Passenger Vehicles!

Even as polar bears face possible extinction from rising temperatures, the EPA continues to block global warming controls on tailpipes. California and 14 other states — accounting for more than 40 percent of new car sales — are prepared to fight global warming by putting cleaner car standards in place. Tell the EPA to stop stalling and give California permission to lead the way!

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EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson

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Dear Administrator Johnson,

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With two-thirds of the world's polar bears expected to die off by 2050 -- according to the U.S. Geological Survey -- it is time for the EPA to stop stalling, get in gear and begin cutting the global warming pollution that is overheating our planet.

I urge you to grant California the waiver it needs under the Clean Air Act to limit global warming pollution from passenger vehicles. As you know, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping emissions are "air pollutants" under the Clean Air Act and you have the authority to regulate them.

And a federal judge recently ruled that California has the right to lead the way in limiting such pollution from passenger vehicles. Fourteen other states are adopting California's tailpipe emissions standards, representing more than forty percent of the U.S. auto market. Vehicles are the second largest source of America's global warming pollution.

Scientists agree that unless we reduce global warming pollution significantly in the next 50 years, average temperatures could rise another 3 to 9 degrees in the United States during this century, causing more heat waves, droughts and wildfires, heavier rains and flooding, rising sea levels, melting tundra, and widespread loss of wildlife and their habitat -- including the potential extinction of polar bears.

I am calling on you to help avert these grave dangers by immediately granting California the waiver it needs to start reducing its global warming pollution.

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