*[Enwl-eng] Climate Reality: Air pollution and COVID-19

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The Climate Reality ProjectTake action now: join us in telling Congress 
COVID-19 is not an excuse to pollute.






                              Most Americans have spent the past few weeks 
focused on staying safe and protecting their families during the coronavirus 
pandemic.

                              But the Trump Administration’s Environmental 
Protection Agency (EPA) has been working to give fossil fuel companies a 
free pass to pollute – all at a time when we’re learning that the quality of 
the air we breathe might be the difference between life and death.

                              In fact, a recent national study from Harvard 
University found that COVID-19 patients with long-term exposure to air 
pollution have significantly higher death rates than do those with less 
consistent exposure to dirty air.

                              While the outcomes of this study are likely to 
be examined closely in the weeks and months to come, it underlines two 
things we know to be true:


                                1.. Exposure to fossil fuel pollution has 
been linked to several serious respiratory and cardiac diseases.
                                2.. Existing respiratory and cardiac illness 
are among the leading conditions tied to the worst health outcomes for 
patients with COVID-19.
                              What’s also becoming clear is that many of the 
same communities that routinely experience the impacts of the climate crisis 
first and worst are also seeing disproportionate levels of severe 
coronavirus infections and higher rates of death at its hands.





                              Take Action Now




                              The EPA has announced in just the past week 
that it would not enforce pollution regulations for fossil fuel plants and 
other facilities, nor will it seek penalties for noncompliance with routine 
monitoring and reporting obligations.

                              And along with the National Highway Transit 
Safety Administration, EPA also finalized its undermining of the fuel 
efficiency standards.

                              We know what comes next. Higher levels of air 
pollution, which more and more experts agree is increasing the amount of 
severe illness and death from COVID-19, particularly among low-income 
families and communities of color.

                              It’s injustice, plain and simple.

                              If EPA won’t honor its own mission to protect 
human health and the environment, we call on Congress to act and stop EPA 
Administrator Andrew Wheeler from putting our health in danger.

                              Join us in telling Congress that COVID-19 is 
not an excuse to pollute. Take action now.

                              - Your friends at Climate Reality

                              PS. Interested in learning more about the 
connection between air pollution and COVID-19? Check out our latest blog 
post.






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