Thank You, Senators Brown and Casey, for Protecting Kids from Mercury
Posted July 2nd, 2012 by Gloria PanMomsRising today launched six-figure TV ad buys in Ohio and Pennsylvania to express gratitude for Senator Sherrod Brown’s and Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey’s courageous votes to turn back a proposal to block EPA’s life-saving limits on mercury and other toxic air pollution.
“Thanks to the leadership of Senators Brown and Casey, the Mercury and Air Toxics Standard, an essential public health protection, remains intact,” said MomsRising Executive Director and CEO Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner. “The more than one million mothers we represent across the country offer their gratitude and are literally breathing a sigh of relief.”
The ad reflects the feelings of millions of mothers across the country who opposed Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe’s use of an obscure Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to try and overturn EPA’s finalized Mercury and Air Toxics Standard — a clean air standard that will now save thousands of American lives annually and prevent these dangerous industrial air pollutants from endangering their kids and threatening public health.
According to the EPA, the Mercury and Air Toxics Standard will save as many as 11,000 lives, prevent as many as 130,000 asthma attacks among children, and prevent as many as 4,700 heart attacks each year.
See Casey ad here.
3 Comments
July 9, 2012 at 12:30 am by charles brownThe video used in this politcal add is misleading and completely out of context.
When the facts don’t align with the political agenda all that remains is to use scare tactics.
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July 3, 2012 at 9:02 am by Ed ZygmuntDear Moms,
I saw your wonderful ad during the morning news today. Thank you so much. I have been working on this issue for many years. As a fisherman, I am directly affected by the mercury contamination in the fish I catch. Pa warns anglers not to eat more than one meal per month of bass and walleye in my region because of mercury contamination. Keep up the great work.
Ed Zygmunt
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Anita Reply:
July 3rd, 2012 at 1:56 pm
Wow!! Thank you for sharing your perspective as an angler. That’s very interesting.
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