From PennEnvironment (http://www.pennenvironment.org):
In 1972, a Big Mac cost only 65 cents.1 Today that same Big Mac costs around $4.2 Prices have gone up a lot since 1972. Except for the cost of illegally polluting our air, which hasn’t budged in nearly 50 years.3
It’s time to stop holding polluters accountable like it’s the 1970s. Tell your legislators to bring penalties for illegal air pollution into the 21st century at https://pennenvironment.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=34865.
These last-century penalties send the wrong message–that it pays to pollute in Pennsylvania. Too often, polluters choose to pay the fine rather than clean up their behavior, forcing us to breathe in their illegal pollution and foot the bill with our health.
Fortunately, Pittsburgh-area State Rep. Austin Davis has introduced House Bill 1752, which would discourage illegal pollution by increasing fines for facilities that pollute our air past their legal limit.
Your state representative hasn’t yet cosponsored this important proposal to help tackle illegal air pollution. Ask them to add their name to HB 1752 today.
Then forward this alert to anyone you know in Pennsylvania with asthma or who is concerned about air pollution and ask them to add their name too.
- Matthew Perpetua, “Can You Guess How Much McDonald’s Food Cost in 1972?,” Buzzfeed, June 25, 2016
- “McDonald’s Prices and Locations,” Menus with Prices
- Austin Davis, “Davis introduces air pollution legislation calling for larger fines, alert system,” PA House, August 12, 2019.
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