An Open Letter To President Obama - Air Pollution

I am shocked and extremely disappointed in your request to EPA Administrator Jackson to withdraw the draft of the Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards.

I expect your Administration to do everything in its power to stand up to coal and oil polluters who continue to cause illness and premature death in our communities.

A healthy economy requires clean air and healthy people. I urge you to remain vigilant in your support of strong environmental safeguards that protect our air and water from polluters and keep our communities thriving.

And as someone who lives in a natural basin for pollution (Salt Lake City area), we suffer from poor air quality in the summer and winter months. In fact, some days our air quality is the worst in the nation, due to the burning of coal and exhaust from cars. This involves Ozone, Mercury, Carbon Monoxide, Particulates 10 & 2.5, and more. I will not let my 3 girls (ages 9, 12, 15) eat the fish in our streams because of the coal and oil companies haphazard pollution ethics. The Mercury alone will build up in their (our) bodies and importantly brains to cause known and as yet unknown harmful effects.

Please look out for the little man, and stand up to the corporations (who are not people) to prevent continued illness and deaths in my community.

Thank you in advance Mr. President.