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EPA not doing its job

Sat., April 18, 2020

Using COVID-19 as cover and with President Trump‘s approval, the Environmental Protection Agency has announced it will be taking a break from enforcing our publicly mandated health and environmental protection laws indefinitely.

Letting oil refineries, chemical plants and other industrial polluters off the hook is not lawful. Please tell the EPA to reverse this decision. Our environment is too important to disregard for political reasons. Contact EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler and tell him to enforce the laws that we have worked hard to pass over the last 30 years protecting our environment.

Gail Matthews

Kellogg

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