Tell EPA: Protect health, regulate hazardous air pollution! July 15, 2025

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EPA needs to hear from health professionals as they attempt to repeal consequential emissions standards for mercury and other hazardous air pollutants. In another dangerous move from this administration, EPA seeks to expose millions of Americans to mercury, arsenic, chromium, and more. These pollutants are spewed from fossil fuel-fired power plants and can be deadly.

The standards in question, commonly known as MATS, have been extremely successful in curbing pollution and saving lives since they were first enacted in 2012. In 2024, EPA finalized an update that would serve to protect more people, particularly the groups most vulnerable to mercury pollution like fetuses, babies, and children. Enacting this rule in full would save lives and create at least $300 million in health benefits over ten years, but because it is of no benefit to polluters, the new EPA Administrator wants to roll it back.

We have the information and technology to improve our air quality and keep people safe; there is no reason we should not implement the 2024 MATS updates. Submit your comment to EPA with the help of PSR’s talking points and tell them to put people over polluters!

Thank you to the hundreds of PSR members who submitted a comment to EPA urging them to protect carbon emissions standards last week. If you missed that opportunity, the comment period is still open and the more comments on the proposed repeal the better! Submit your comment here.