Why We Built the Clean Recovery Act: From Problem to Solution

1. The Problem: Legal Pollution That’s Making Us Sick

Every day, industrial facilities across the United States legally release toxic chemicals into the air, water, and soil. These aren’t accidents — they’re permitted by outdated regulations that haven’t kept pace with science or human health.

People living near these polluters — often low-income families and communities of color — are exposed to:

• Cancer-causing agents

• Neurotoxins that harm developing brains

• Particulates and pesticides that worsen asthma and heart disease

While we’re told electric cars and green tech are solving the climate crisis, many of the factories that produce them are quietly making us sicker.

We’ve donated. We’ve marched. We’ve waited.
But the truth is clear: the air isn’t getting cleaner. The pollution is getting worse.

2. The Solution: The Clean Recovery Act

We’re done waiting.
The Clean Recovery Act is a grassroots policy designed by real people — doctors, teachers, parents, farmers, and survivors — to force change.

The bill mandates that all polluting factories, mines, farms, and golf courses:

• Install bioremediation systems (like soil-healing plants and fungi)

• Use pollution scrubbers and filter tech to clean air before it’s released

• Report emissions transparently and in real-time

• Adopt retrofits within 2 years, or face serious penalties

This isn’t a suggestion. It’s a demand backed by proven science and public will.

3. Who Needs to Be Convinced?

• Lawmakers: Many politicians are unaware of how widespread this issue is — or worse, they’ve been influenced by corporate lobbyists. We need to flood their offices with calls, letters, and signatures.

• The Public: Most Americans don’t realize how close they live to toxic emitters. By sharing stories, maps, and personal health effects, we show this isn’t “somewhere else.” It’s everywhere.

• Media & Local Leaders: Getting journalists, city councils, and school boards involved will create pressure from the ground up.

4. The Expected Outcome — If We Pass This Bill

If we get this bill passed and polluters comply, the results will be transformative:

✅ Cleaner air within months
✅ Lower cancer and asthma rates within 2–5 years
✅ Healthier children and elders in frontline communities
✅ Revitalized land and water through bioremediation
✅ Public trust restored by seeing measurable, local results

And perhaps most importantly, we’ll prove that we don’t need to wait for billionaires or broken systems to fix what they’ve damaged. We can lead.

Join Us

This is a people-powered policy built by and for communities who’ve had enough.
No more performative awareness. No more waiting. It’s time for accountable, science-based action.

👉 Sign the petition
👉 Call your representative
👉 Share this with 3 people who believe clean air is a human right

Together, we can force polluters to clean up — and build a future where our kids can breathe again.