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Issues: Air

Deepest Cuts 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.

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? Buy clean energy Save energy at home

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