UPDATE — comment period on Air Nuisance Rule extended to April 24

Tell US EPA that you:

• Want environmental justice communities to be protected particularly since they live near such factories and lack resources to address the harm being done, without this rule.
• Know that air pollution standards and other regulations aren’t strong enough to keep neighbors who live next to these factories from adverse health impacts.

Submitting comments is easy. EPA tells us that Regulations.gov is EPA’s preferred method because comments submitted there are automatically added to the docket, where email submissions must be manually added, leaving room for error and taking more time. Commenters on Regulations.gov can also request a confirmation for their submission and a tracking number by checking a box at the bottom of the comment page after providing their email address. If you are submitting comments on behalf of your organization, or organizing comments from your network, we wanted to encourage you to use Regulations.gov so we can track comments more easily and accurately. You can use these links to make it easier for people to file comments on Regulations.gov:

• Link to comment page on Regulations.gov: https://www.regulations.gov/commenton/EPA-R05-OAR-2020-0055-0224 From here, you can submit a comment (and upload attachments, in various formats), and get a confirmation email and tracking number for your comment.
• You can also link to the proposed rule on Regulations.gov —  https://www.regulations.gov/document/EPA-R05-OAR-2020-0055-0224 — if you’d like to provide background; commenters can click on the “comment” button from there to go to the comment page.

For people who want to submit by email, the correct email is [email protected]; commenters need to use the Docket ID NO. EPA-R05-OAR-2020-0055 in the subject line of the email. You may refer to these talking points to help write your comments. Your help is greatly appreciated and will improve the air for us all!!!