Long story short: tell our EPA to enact stronger soot standards, tell the New York Times to get rid of forced arbitration clauses for subscribers, and tell Connecticut state legislators to do more to keep rents down. Use the email/petition tools in the following paragraphs to communicate your will.
The League of Conservation Voters helps you tell our Environmental Protection Agency (or EPA) to enact the most vigorous soot standards possible. Our EPA last updated the standards about a decade ago, and set those standards a bit higher than scientists would have liked; the Trump Administration, of course, ignored calls to tighten the standard in 2019, but perhaps this EPA will listen a little more closely. Tighter standards ain’t a whole lot to ask, especially since soot particles are so small they can go right to your bloodstream, and wreak all kinds of havoc, including asthma, COPD, Parkinson’s, dementia. So if big polluting corporations whine, let’s remind them that America is a can-do country.
Public Citizen helps you tell the New York Times to stop forcing its subscribers into arbitration. You’re an American, so if you’ve got a problem with the Times, you should be able to address that problem in a court of law, not some “arbitration” “court” that’ll almost certainly rule against you. And you should be able to band together with your fellow Americans in a class-action suit, too. Forced arbitration is easier and cheaper for the Times, but you can’t place a high-enough price on lost rights. Don’t believe the right-wing hype that average arbitration awards are bigger than average class action awards. What’ll your “average” be after you lose? Zero.
Finally, Cap the Rent CT helps you tell the Connecticut state legislature to start protecting renters more. Rent in Connecticut has gone up 20%, on average, and in some areas has gone up 40%; have we had 20% inflation over the last two years? No, but just as corporations have hidden their record profits in our high inflation just because they can, landlords have jacked up rent prices beyond what their increased costs require, just because they can. Cap the Rent helps you ask for (among other things) a 3% cap on rent hikes and expanded Good Cause protections (so landlords can’t just throw you out without a good reason). Hard to believe anyone would oppose such things, but that’s we speak out: so they don’t.
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