Health Professionals: Sign Letter to Support Strong Methane Standards
- Abstract
We, the undersigned physicians, nurses, and health professionals, strongly support the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed rules to reduce industrial methane and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from new oil and gas sources. These standards will not only help to mitigate climate change and its associated health risks by curtailing emissions of methane – an especially potent greenhouse gas – from new and modified sources, but will also limit emissions of toxic and carcinogenic air pollutants, benefiting public health in communities across the country. Furthermore, we call on EPA to develop standards to limit similar emissions from existing sources as well, to truly protect public health.
- Resource Type
- Letter (sign-on)
- Author
- American Lung Association (ALA)
- Resource URL
- http://www.lung.org/get-involved/become-an-advocate/advocacy-alerts/health-professionals-methane-standards.html
- Date
- Dec 4, 2015
- Organization Type
- Ngo
- Health and Human Impact
- Overview/general
- Emission Source
- Overview/general
- Fossil Fuel
- Overview/general
- GHG
- Methane
- Solution
- Climate adaptation/resilience
- Other
- Advocacy Co-benefits/co-harms US policy Policy United states