Dear friends,
The U.S. air force has been poisoning the drinking water supply in Tucson, Arizona, a city home to more than half a million people.
For decades, it has been poisoning water sources with volatile organic compounds and "forever chemicals" (also called PFAS) — to the point where a large area outside of Tucson was declared a "Superfund site." This designation is only used on the country's most polluted, most dangerous sites.
But now the Air Force is refusing to clean up its pollution. In fact, it's claiming that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has no right to hold the military accountable, after a recent Supreme Court decision gutted government agencies' regulatory abilities.
In June, the current Court's right-wing majority overturned 40 years of previous court decisions and legal precedent to curtail the EPA and other agencies' abilities to do their jobs and keep the public safe. This will hurt prevent agencies from regulating important sectors like the environment, workplace safety, food safety, public health, and more.
Everyone deserves to have safe, clean drinking water. That's why the EPA stepped in and demanded the Air Force clean up its toxic mess. But if the Air Force continues to refuse... what then?
This is why we need a federal law codifying the rights and powers of regulatory agencies, including the EPA. That is the only thing that can undo this nasty mess. Sign the petition to demand the U.S. Congress pass a law clearly strengthening and concretizing the EPA's authority!
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