Tell President Obama to stand up to the oil and gas industry and protect our air!

The oil and gas industry is pressuring the Obama administration to kill rules that would protect communities from fracking air pollution.

Air pollution from fracking dumps hundreds of thousands of tons of smog-forming toxic pollution into our air, sickening nearby communities.

Last year, you sent a message to the EPA that we needed strong rules to protect our air from these emissions – and they listened. The EPA was all set to release final rules protecting communities from new fracking air pollution at the beginning of April.

Range Resources flares a natural gas well near a Texas playground.
Credit: Sharon Wilson

But the rules were postponed -- despite the fact that they would save the industry money in addition to protecting public health.

Now the oil and gas industry lobby is going in for the kill. They've taken this fight to the White House -- and we need your help to remind the President what is important, and what we need -- clean air.

TAKE ACTION: Tell President Obama to stand up to the oil and gas industry and put the health of our communities first!

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Dear President Obama,

The EPA's New Source Performance Standards and National Emissions Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for oil and natural gas production are essential to protecting public health from the impacts of oil and gas drilling.

Throughout the 30+ states impacted by drilling, communities are suffering from unregulated toxic air emissions – and they need your help.

Despite industry's claims, these reforms are economically sound and technologically achievable. The current standards are more than 20 years old and in dire needed of updating.

There is no excuse for industry efforts to weaken these common sense safeguards.

In your State of the Union address, you made a commitment to clean up natural gas drilling.  Now is the time to live up to that promise.

Air pollution from natural gas fracking dumps hundreds of thousands of tons of smog-forming chemicals, toxics, and climate-disrupting pollution into our air, and it's getting worse.

Families in gaspatch communities from Pennsylvania to Texas to Wyoming are counting on you.  Please support any and all EPA safeguards to protect communities from fracking pollution.

Sincerely,

President Barack Obama

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