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If we want to clean up our air, we must clean up Connecticut’s most polluting sector, transportation. The American Lung Association estimates that by 2050 a move to clean up our transportation sector by transitioning to clean power vehicles will avoid 1,250 premature deaths, prevent 27,400 asthma attacks, and save $13.7 billion in health care costs.
This year, Connecticut was set to adopt a suite of cleaner vehicle rules: the Advanced Clean Cars II, Advanced Clean Trucks and Low NOx Heavy-Duty Omnibus rule. If adopted, these rules would cut deadly soot and smog pollution from cars, trucks, vans, and buses.
Many states in our region have already embraced these life-saving programs, with most of our neighbors on the East Coast voting to adopt one or more of these rules, including: New York, Vermont, Virginia, Delaware, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Maryland, and Massachusetts. However, Connecticut did not join our neighbors in their move towards a clean air future because of heavy intervention from polluting industry lobbyists who continue to profit from our state’s dependence on harmful fossil fuels.
It’s time for state and local leaders to stand up to polluting interests and ensure a healthy future for all.
Action can’t come soon enough: Tailpipe pollution from cars and trucks is poisoning the air we breathe. Our air quality crisis is a very real problem that is harming the health of Connecticut’s communities—particularly low-income neighborhoods and communities of color—across the state. Connecticut has the troubling distinction of having the highest rate of air pollution-related deaths in New England.
Despite the tremendous health and economic benefits of clean vehicle policies, polluting industries have mobilized to pull these regulations from consideration and shut us out of years of clean air benefits. We’ve seen across the country how fossil fuel interests and the trucking lobby have fought relentlessly to roll back, delay, and weaken clean air progress. Our air quality crisis demands swift action.
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