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Tell your PA Representative, and tell your PA Senator to oppose HB 2141, TODAY!

Click here to link to the Pennsylvania General Assembly and contact your state representative.

 

" ... cleaner cars are here on the horizon - cars and trucks that will pollute less, use less gasoline and save you money "

With an active nudge - and some lively discussions - from Sierra Club Pennsylvania Chapter Clean Air Chair Nancy Parks and Sierra Club staff David Bookbinder, David Hamilton and Jeff Schmidt, the PA DEP recognized its legal responsibility to provide for cleaner cars in Pennsylvania this year. Pennsyania and its General Assembly recognized in 1999 the wisdom of regularly advancing our personal motor vehicle fleet into cleaner cars, mini-vans and pickups.

Now that cleaner cars are here on the horizon - cars and trucks that will pollute less, use less gasoline and save you money - some organizations here in Pennsylvania have geared up to stop this opportunity.

Lat's face it; some people want you to buy gasoline. You need to lessen your exposure to toxic benzene in gasoline, and save $$ at the pump.

HB 2141 in the Pennsylvania General Assembly has been crafted to take away your right to see cleaner cars provided to Pennsylvania auto dealerships. HB 2141 will:

  • rollback efforts to provide for cleaner cars & trucks in PA

Our personal vehicles account for 53.6% of all NOx and 36.7% of all VOC pollution that impacts our health through ozone smog and fine soot inhaled by our most vulnerable;

  • new, cleaner car requirements will reduce another 9% of nitrogen oxides (ground level ozone smog) statewide
  • new, cleaner car requirements will reduce another 12% of volatile organic chemicals (ground level ozone smog) statewide
  • new, cleaner car requirements will reduce another 15% of carcinogenic benzene, and
  • new, cleaner car requirements will reduce another 30% of greenhouse gases

Click here to link to the Pennsylvania General Assembly to contact your state representative.


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