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Right to Breathe
Clean air should be a fundamental right. Every year, many Americans young and old get sick because of air pollution. Thousands die. But our lungs don’t have to be the dumping ground for dirty industries.
Key Resources:
- Campaign Home: The Right to Breathe
- Special Feature:
50 States United For Healthy Air - Report: Sick Of Soot: How The EPA Can Save Lives By Cleaning Up Fine Particle Air Pollution
- Feature: In the Shadow of a Smokestack
- Feature: A Success Story, with Many Chapters Still to Come
- Video: The Right to Breathe
- Video: Asthma Feels
- Video: Air Watch: Documenting California's Air Pollution
- Video: In The Shadow Of The Stacks
- Storybook: Tom Frantz (Central Valley, CA)
- Audio Interview: Clearing the Air: Q&A with Earthjustice Attorney Jim Pew
- unEARTHED: Recent news about clean air
- Return to Earthjustice Campaign Center
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The Right To Breathe Video
Every time you blow out a candle. Every time you blow a bubble. You declare the right to breathe. Air pollution threatens that right. The Clean Air Act defends it. Everyone has the right to breathe.
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Millions of Americans suffer from asthma; however, most people don't know how brutal it is to live with the disease. Breathing is a fundamental right, yet every day air pollution is affecting millions of American's Right to Breathe. Watch Asthma Feels.
The Clean Air Promise
Clean air should be a fundamental right. We will raise our voices to demand immediate action, because everyone has the right to breathe. Hold your members of Congress to the Clean Air Promise.