LWVUS Clean Air Campaign

LWVUS launches a new campaign for Clean Air. Sign the Clean Air Promise now.

The Clean Air Promise.  Campaign Components.

Forty years of education and advocacy to protect the Clean Air Act and the EPA's duty to enforce its provisions culminated in strong advertising in Missouri and Massachusetts this spring. That advertising and the supporting efforts of our friends in the environmental community is resetting the debate on the future of the EPA from jobs and regulation to public health. As we expected, efforts to eviscerate the EPA are continuing. The League, in partnership with environmental and public health organizations, will ask members of Congress, other elected officials, key community leaders and the public to make the "Clean Air Promise."

Protecting the public health by controlling air pollution is something we depend on Congress to do. The Clean Air Promise is designed to allow the public, elected officials at all levels and community leaders to send a strong message that clean air and the EPA have overwhelming public support. The EPA is not a budget item but rather is vital to the health of future generations who, without it, will be just as endangered as polar bears and penguins. It is time for our elected officials to vote for people not polluters.
(Portions of a letter from LWVUS President, Elisbeth MacNamara)

The Clean Air Promise

THE CLEAN AIR PROMISE

"I PROMISE to protect America's children and families from dangerous air pollution.
Because toxics and pollutants such as mercury, smog, carbon, and soot, cause thousands of hospital visits, asthma attacks, and even deaths.
I will support clean air policies and other protections that scientists and public health experts have recommended to the EPA to safeguard our air quality."

To learn more about the Clean Air Promise, visit http://peoplenotpolluters.org/ and make the promise yourself.

Campaign Components

The Promise effort will have three components. The first is the launch of the campaign through a League-branded television ad which will appear on network stations in Washington, D.C. and on selected cable outlets starting next week. The ad will feature real children suffering from asthma, a condition aggravated by dirty air, and a request by the mother of such a child that everyone make the promise. The second component will be a grassroots effort by the League as well as our partners in the public health and environmental community to raise awareness of the public health effects of pollution and the importance of the EPA by asking members of our community to make the promise. The third component is collecting personal stories of those impacted by air pollution. The public will be directed to a League website to make the promise and share their stories. Just like the personal stories that draw members to the League, personal experience makes this issue real.

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