Action Alert: Call the USEPA TODAY and Tell Them YOU Support Classifying Coal Waste as “HAZARDOUS”

The US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) is about to issue an important decision about how it will regulate a highly toxic biproduct of coal mining: coal ash. The USEPA is under extreme pressure from the coal industry to choose a weak classification for coal ash. Prairie Rivers Network and our allies want to see coal ash classified and regulated as a “hazardous” substance.

We need your help to counteract the well-funded influence of the coal industry! If there was ever a time that our calls and emails could make a difference, the time is now. We specifically have to target Lisa Jackson, Administrator of the EPA.

The hazardous classification would apply stricter standards to the regulation of coal ash impoundments and landfills. A “hazardous” substance designation would require safety features to protect human and environmental health. The coal industry wants to see a weaker classification that would allow dangerous loopholes and continuing pollution.

This is important.
You can make a real difference and it only takes a few minutes.

Please call or email and simply say: “I support classification of coal ash as a hazardous waste.”

(202) 564-4700 – Lisa Jackson’s Office – jackson.lisap@epa.gov

The next 10 days are critical.
Please CALL BEFORE JANUARY 22nd, 2010.

If you have time, we would like to know that you called – you can let us know with a brief message to info@prairierivers.org. Thank you for your help.