Dodging Pollution: An Underdog Story
Earthjustice - Non-Profit - www.earthjustice.org
Some of the worst air polluters have dodged controls for decades, pumping dirty air that makes playing outside a dangerous game for kids across the U.S. Though 2011 brings unprecedented opportunities to clean up these polluters, only public pressure can counteract the polluter lobby's influence. A humorous video can help: in a dodgeball game between kids and pollution, large men dressed as mercury, soot, and other pollutants hurl dodgeballs labeled with diseases (e.g. asthma ) while kids counter with balls marked "health" and "clean air". The message: join the kids' team to ensure dirty industries don't dodge clean air rules again.
AdminSimon A. Nurse
(Admin, Free Range Studios' Youtopia)
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sara
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Water. Air. Intended to be clean and cherished like a friendship, which Earth Justice understands.
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Marc Jauhiainen
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If we improved our air and water quality, it would have a positive impact in many areas. People would be much healthier and would be spending much less money on medical costs. Our natural environment would become much healthier. This would also have a great long term positive
economic impact for tourism. Last, it is very immoral to destroy our wilderness. There has been such great improper planning when it comes to the preservation of our wilderness for future generations. -
Anonymous
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In Phoenix you can often see the air. On a bad day you cann't see the mountains, on a good day you can. denise
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Arthur Wolfe
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Project sounds great.
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Julie
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Clean air is essential for good health. Healthcare costs would benefit from clean air. We all need to breath easier and deeper!
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Tanya Teneyuque
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IMPORTANT WORK done by a GREAT organization and they need ALL the help & support they can get to help people, the environment, and animals!!
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Girliejean
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Clean air and water are essential to our world's survival and our species' ability to continue.
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Michelle Ognjanovic
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Earthjustice is the legal fire power behind NRDC and other environmental
nonprofit organizations. It has the knowledge and experience to win the day. -
Nancy G
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Clean air and clean water are precious beyond measure. Its time for policies with teeth that hold the polluters accountable.
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Shawn Sargent
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Clean air will Make America strong again!
Clean air will reduce the high costs of medical care!
Clean air will reduce Global warming.
the science is real by polluting our air we our destroying the planet that sustains us! -
humanegirl
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I know that I can count on Earthjustice to stand up for the environment and wildlife against the big polluters.
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Edd
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Work must be done to curtail coal mining operations.
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Samson
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We are Earth. We are Air. We are poisoning ourselves. Why? So a few can feel as though they are prospering, while the rest suck air? Time for a new direction.
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Jamie Zazow
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We need to be vigilant and urge our government to maintain strong clean air and water standards, and to enforce these standards, ensuring that polluters take responsibility and comply.
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Jamie Zazow
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We need to be vigilant and urge our government to maintain strong clean air and water standards, and to enforce these standards, ensuring that polluters take responsibility and comply.
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Luis F Sanchez
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clean air is vital to all life,lets keep it clean.
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G Bertelmann
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When I am outside walking, the air makes one choke from passing trucks and SUVs particularly. Do we all have to die from cancer, is that the aim?
Other countries do much more to ensure good air quality - London has shown that it is possible. -
Anonymous
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Earth Justice is one of the most effective organizations fighting the big polluters.
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beryl martin sussman
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Start young.
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Anonymous
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Earth Justice is one of the most effective organizations fighting the big polluters.