Issues: Air


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Who is monitoring the quality of our air to ensure that it's safe to breathe? For eight years under the Bush administration, the answer was increasingly: no one. Federal programs charged with tracking pollution and safeguarding public health were slashed and gutted. Restoring them requires dramatic action by the new leaders in Washington.

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Dirty Coal vs Clean Energy
Why choose 19th century pollution when we have 21st century solutions?

Asthma and Air Pollution
#Bad air can bring on asthma attacks, even in healthy people; controlling pollution from cars, factories and power plants can help.


What Parents Need to Know about Diesel School Buses
Is your child breathing diesel exhaust inside the bus?


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