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The Realities of the Clean Air Act

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Even as environmental safeguards come under attack like never before, a recent EPA study shows that the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments brings $26 of benefits for every $ 1 in costs. That’s more than $2 trillion in direct benefits by 2020.

For example, in 2010 alone the reductions in fine particle and ozone pollution from the 1990 Clean Air Act amendments prevented more than:
• 160,000 cases of premature death
• 130,000 heart attacks
• 13 million lost work days
• 1.7 million asthma attacks1

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Representative Upton is moving Michigan backward, not forward

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Rep. Fred Upton became the chairman of the powerful Energy and Commerce Committee in January. Instead of using his new powers to address critical issues facing his district (Michigan’s 6th Congressional District) and the country as a whole, he has become a close ally of corporate front groups and their Tea Party allies.

That means he’s siding with dirty energy interests instead of supporting clean energy alternatives that would create jobs and reduce air pollution in his state and around country. This is a big deal: Michigan sends more than a billion dollars to other states each year to pay for the dirty coal that harms Michigan residents.
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Rep. Fred Upton Is Doing Nothing to Improve the Air in Kalamazoo County, Michigan

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In recent weeks, Rep. Fred Upton, the new chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, has been working with energy industry lobbyists and the former oil and gas industry employees on his staff to undermine or overturn safeguards proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency against air pollution.

Unfortunately, his actions could dramatically impact many of his constituents, particularly children, elderly and others suffering from asthma and other respiratory illnesses.

Rep Upton’s district includes Kalamazoo County, which received a failing grade from the American Lung Association (ALA) for high ozone days. Those high ozone days hurt everyone in the county, of course, but those most vulnerable are young children and the elderly. In fact, according to the ALA, there are more than 18,000 people in Kalamazoo with adult asthma.
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