STOP SB 1025
Protect Clean Air Standards for Pennsylvania

Clean air protections in Pennsylvania are under attack. Click here to find out what you can do.

Dear Pennsylvania Sierra Club Supporter,

Clean air protections in Pennsylvania are under attack. This week the Pennsylvania House Transportation Committee voted to report out SB 1025, legislation that would repeal the Pennsylvania Clean Vehicles program, which we need to cut air pollution in our state. The Clean Vehicles standard ensures that all new vehicles sold in the state will be required to use the best available tailpipe pollution control technology. Already, ten other states nationwide have adopted identical standards to help protect public health by cutting down on smog and soot pollution from cars and trucks. This action by the Transportation Committee sets the stage for a House floor vote as early as next Monday, October 23.

The Committee members voted as follows:

THOSE WHO VOTED YES ON SB 1025 (OPPOSING OUR POSITION) WERE: GEIST, ARMSTRONG, MARSICO, WILT, MAHER, J. EVANS, BALDWIN, FORCIER, GOOD, HESS, SAYLOR, SCAVELLO, STAIRS, MCCALL, SOLOBAY, DERMODY, SANTONI, PETRARCA, HALUSKA, WOJNARSKI.

THOSE WHO VOTED NO ON SB 1025 (SUPPORTING OUR POSITION) WERE: HARPER, WATSON, GERBER, MELIO, SIPTROTH

NOT VOTING (ABSENT): MCGILL, RUFFING, ROBERTS

If your Representative is on the House Transportation Committee, please contact him/her to express your opinion on their vote. The environmental position was a "NO" vote on SB 1025. It is possible that you could sway your Representative to vote correctly on the floor, regardless of the Committee vote. We need to demonstrate that there will be political pain for those who oppose clean air protections, especially less than 3 weeks from the election. And we need to reinforce, by thanking, those few who stuck by us for this vote.

Please consider quickly sending a letter to the editor of your local paper to draw attention to how your Representative voted on SB 1025. But remember, a vote can happen next Monday.

TAKE ACTION: Call your State Representative at:
House: (717) 787-2372

Find out who represents you at: www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/home/find.cfm

Tell them to:
1) Stand up for clean air protections and Vote NO on SB 1025
2) Automakers are already required to sell clean cars in ten other states nationwide. Pennsylvania consumers deserve less polluting vehicles too that will also save money at the gas pump.
3) Pennsylvania has already committed to adopting the clean vehicle standards in order to improve air quality. Repealing the standards would put the health of Pennsylvania residents at risk and jeopardize federal funding for the state that is based upon meeting air quality standards.

By requiring automakers to build cars, trucks, and SUVs that are less polluting, people across the state will be able to breathe easier. Already, 37 counties across the state fail to meet national air quality standards for smog. If the General Assembly blocks implementation of the Pennsylvania Clean Vehicles Program it will exacerbate chronic air quality problems and increase air pollution related health problems such as asthma attacks.
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