1. United States
2. Utah
3. Letter

On May 1, 2025, 52 Senators voted to repeal Clean Air Act protections against seven of the world's most toxic air pollutants, including dioxins, PCBs, lead, mercury, and others. Now the resolution heads to the House of Representatives for a vote. If S.J. Res. 31 passes the House, it would allow 1,800 of the nation's largest industrial polluters, including chemical manufacturers, pesticide makers, refineries, and other large facilities, to permanently shut off their pollution controls for chemicals that cause cancers, birth defects, and children's developmental disorders. It would allow these companies to open the spigot for the most insidious chemicals, and to stop monitoring or reporting their emissions. These chemicals and their degradation products persist in the environment and accumulate in our bodies throughout our lifetimes. While other chemicals are regulated by the tens of tons, it only takes fractions of a gram of these ultra-toxic pollutants to trigger cancers, reproductive pathologies, and other harms. No Congress has ever stripped away protections against toxic air pollution-let alone on this massive scale. These toxic exposures are preventable by simply keeping the pollution controls on. What politicians are doing is shameful, cruel, and reckless. Vote "NO" on S.J. Res. 31 and prevent this vile and unprecedented rollback of Clean Air Act protections.