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notehead
Citizen
Username: Notehead
Post Number: 822
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, January 5, 2004 - 3:25 pm: |     |
It causes more premature deaths in NJ than alcohol. More than drugs. More than reckless driving. What is it?
Air pollution.
If you don't think that pollution in the air that you and your family breathe is a real and significant problem, think again. Please read the attached message from NJPIRG, and take a minute to support the passage the of the Clean Cars Act.
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The Clean Cars Act would reduce smog pollution by 19% by the year 2020 by requiring that 10% of new cars be cleaner, starting in 2006. This is the equivalent of taking 500,000 cars off the road, and, as a result, New Jersey will see drastic reductions to our severe air pollution problems and the associated health risks.
It is determined that each year between 2,300 and 5,400 New Jersey residents die prematurely because of air pollution. This finding ranks air pollution as the third highest risk factor for premature death, behind smoking and obesity, and just slightly above alcohol.
Please take a moment to ask your state assemblymember to support the Clean Cars Act when it comes up for a vote. Then, ask your family and friends to help by forwarding this e-mail to them.
To take action, click on this link or paste it into your web browser:
http://pirg.org/alerts/route.asp?id=294&id4=ES
Sincerely,
Dena Mottola
NJPIRG Executive Director
DenaM@njpirg.org
http://www.NJPIRG.org |
Kenney
Citizen
Username: Kenney
Post Number: 274
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Monday, January 5, 2004 - 4:36 pm: | |
How do they make the cars cleaner?
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today..FDR..
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth...G.W.
Everyone wants a voice in human freedom. There's a fire burning inside of all us...L.W.
Dave Ross is the coolest!!(being banned sucks) |
buzzsaw
Citizen
Username: Buzzsaw
Post Number: 1149
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, January 5, 2004 - 4:55 pm: | |
By lowering the toxins that they cough out.
There is. |
mfpark
Citizen
Username: Mfpark
Post Number: 131
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Monday, January 5, 2004 - 5:10 pm: | |
"It causes more premature deaths in NJ than alcohol. More than drugs. More than reckless driving. What is it?"
And I thought the answer was MOL Soapbox when Strawberry, Nohero, Duncan, Uke, et al get going. Different kind of air pollution, I guess. |
Duncan
Real Name
Username: Duncanrogers
Post Number: 1394
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Monday, January 5, 2004 - 5:20 pm: | |
WHEEZE
courtesy mfpark
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take"
Wayne Gretzky |
Ukealalio
Citizen
Username: Ukealalio
Post Number: 340
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Monday, January 5, 2004 - 6:04 pm: | |
mfpark-As we used to say in the schoolyard:
"The one that smelled it dealt it".  |
mfpark
Citizen
Username: Mfpark
Post Number: 132
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Monday, January 5, 2004 - 7:49 pm: | |
Uke:
Thanks for welcoming me to the club
I keep trying to find the right level of discourse for MOL. |
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