How disappointing to learn that our community shows worsened levels of ozone pollution, as stated in the American Lung Association’s 2015 State of the Air report card.
Without healthy air, quality of life for every Maine resident and tourist suffers. Yet it’s our children, seniors and those living with lung disease who bear the greatest risk.
Climate change will make it even harder for us to clean up our air. Getting our community back on the right track requires swift adoption of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan, which promises to prevent up to 150,000 asthma attacks and up to 6,600 premature deaths annually.
It is urgent that we raise our voices against efforts by industry and some in Congress to delay, weaken or block this critical healthy air safeguard that will for the first time set limits on the amount of carbon pollution that is pumped into the air we breathe.
Our children’s health depends on our willingness to stand up for a strong, enforceable Clean Power Plan.
Arthur Cerullo
North Yarmouth
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