Perhaps the most effective political advertisement ever produced is airing right now on network and cable channels.
Sponsored not by self-serving politicians or bureaucrats, but by the American Lung Assn. fighting right-wing efforts to weaken the 40-year-old Clean Air Act.
Videos show a red baby buggy at various locations in the U.S.Capitol. Audio captures a baby desperately trying to breathe during an asthma attack.
ALA wants to preserve the Environmental Protection Agency's authority to enforce laws requiring cleanup of toxic mercury air pollution.
Polluters and their Republican toadies want the EPA to ignore overwhelming scientific evidence that smog harms health and can cause premature deaths from asthma, heart attacks and strokes.
Just ask the estimated 160,000 individuals who survived 2010 because of the Clean Air Act.
Or the 1,800 medical professionals and 500 organizations supporting the ALA campaign in all 50 states. (7 AUGUST 2011)
