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We Support California's Clean Cars Law
Target: Chairman Alan Lloyd, California Air Resources Board (CARB); Governor Arnold SchwarzeneggerSponsored by: American Lung Association of California
Air pollution is a serious problem in our state. According to the American Lung Association, nearly 25 million Californians live in areas with high concentrations of ozone air pollution (for more information on air quality and the health impacts of greenhouse gas emissions and global warming, please click here)
Our cars are a large part of the problem: passenger cars and trucks alone are responsible for over half of California's smog problem and they account for approximately 40% of the global warming gases emitted in California. The build-up of global warming gases in the atmosphere leads to higher temperatures that are expected to worsen smog problems.
California recently passed legislation that requires the state Air Resources Board (ARB) to adopt regulations to achieve the "maximum feasible and cost effective reduction" of global warming pollution from motor vehicles. The air resources board's draft regulations would require automakers to reduce emissions from new cars and trucks starting in 2009. These regulations are urgently needed to protect public health and air quality, and your voice is critical.
California has always led the nation in efforts to protect the public from air pollution and we need to help maintain this record of accomplishment. Please help us send a message to Governor Schwarzenegger and Dr. Alan Lloyd, Chairman of the ARB, to support these new strong regulations and to be a leader in improving California's air quality and public health!
I lived in San Francisco for many years, and noticed the air quality in the Bay Area getting worse. It affected my elderly mother's ability to breathe, and my 2 teenaged children. Our health, our very survival depends on having clean air, and reducing global warming.
My little cousin has asthma, so she has a hard time trying to breathe. She's only 3 years old.
Air pollution is the major cuase of most people's breathing problems
Air pollution is the key factor in the catostrphic reality of global warming.
My son suffers from asthma
I want my son and grandchildren to breathe healthy air no matter where they live.
Cleaner air = longer lives and less disease.
If we can't breathe, we won't survive as a human race. Simple.
The vast majority of Californians continue to drive large gas guzzling cars, despite growing poulation and deteriorating air quality. It is imperative that car manufacturers start making cleaner, fuel-efficient cars, and government must demand it, as the manufacturers are NOT doing it voluntarily.
Air pollution is something that concerns everyone.. we'll all die if we don't stop polluting.
I have developed problems as a result of living in LA where my doctor says the cause is the air pollution. When will the standard really be for people, not convenience of the car manufacturers? I'm willing to pay more for clean air.
Because it kills people slowly and surely.
Global warming is partly the result of fossil fuel emissions of cars spuing pollution. I am heading up an effort to be part of International Car Free Day!
I have been asthmatic since the age of 6. In the last six years I have lived near two major highways and my breathing has significantly worsened; moving for me, as for so many others, has been economically infeasible. Please consider that VERY few of us can afford to live in clean areas whose environment would not harm our health in one way or another. The only choice then is to institute long-term environmental solutions where we live.
I/we need to breathe in order to work, to think, to live. My health has worsened as a direct result of pollution. It horrifies me that small particulates in polluted neighborhoods affect lung growth in children. Is not the ability to breathe our birthright?
The health impacts are well-documented.
I have several family members that suffer from asthma and air pollution makes their asthma worse. Some day we are going to run out of oil and when that happens without alternative energy sources are society could very easily be destroyed by lack of energy. Please do more research in renewable energy resources.
Asthma affects many people I see in my practice, many of my friends and their children. Difficulties in pursuing sports professions like track, baseball force people to make 2nd choices. Inactivity promoted by asthma is not what we need for ourselves or our children. This contributes to the obesity epiemic in this country.
It is possible that earth's systems are balanced in a complex and interrelated manner. Pollution certainly causes health problems for human beings, for fish, trees and other life forms. It may also unbalance our ecosystem in such a way as to bring devastation to the world as we know it for our children, if not ourselves.
Not only is it severely affecting the health of Californians, but our skies are getting uglier and uglier. Nastly smoggy skies congest our lungs, eyes and make California an uglier place to be.
I'm asthmatic
the planet needs to remain healthy in order for all living things to survive
When i first came to califonia for the first time i had an asthma attack. I guess my body got used to the pollution. But that was years ago, we have more people here and more cars now. We have the technolgy for cars that produce no pollution ,most of us know it ,so why dont have them ?It must be the political machine is too corrupt with special intrest lobbists . Listen very closely the people are growing up fast in this age of high techknolgy they will not put up with it much longer.
my health and the health of my children and thier children.
The Bush Administration continues to GUT EVERY environmental law on the books. We MUST REVERSE this DISASTROUS trend!
I have a daughter and want her to be able to breathe clean air...I don't want her health to be affected because of dirty cars!!!
It's absurd to continue destroying our own health, while threatening our agricultural future by continuing to produce greenhouse gases. The scientific findings are in. Let's do what we know we must and start moving our energy sources to renewable.
I have asthma and cant deal with alot of air pollution
I want everyone after me to grow up in a place they can breath
I have had asthma since early childhood. I can not visit many cities because of air pollution
If we don't control air pollution. There will not be any place left for me to live that is relatively free from air pollution
My nephew suffers from asthma since early childhood.
We need clean air in order to live healthy lives. It is a basic nescessity and all concerns regarding pollution need to be addressed,
Many of my teammates in track and cross country can only run so far and so fast without their inhaler. It really affects our team.
We are breathing in what we emit. Do we really want unhealthy chemicals in our body? It makes me feel so unclean!
We don't have the choice of "not breathing" so we depend on our government to see to it that the air we breathe is heathful and not damaging. This is the proper venue of government to protect "the commons" - those resources of our planet that we use in common with other citizens.
because we and all animals in the world need clean air to live healthy.
My uncle has it. He is affected by cars and field burning.
We breathe it and put it in our bodies.
Asthma affects my 5 yr old son, my mother and I.
I am concerned about our children's future. Car companies have to change to alternatives before it's too late. We all want less fuel dependency.
I like to breathe.
As an Educator, I am concerned with the growing numbers of children that I come in contact with who have restricted physical activity due to asthma. This paired with the fact that the number of obese children in the U.S. is growing is disturbing. Controling the air quality in the long run will give our youth a healthier lifestyle.
We must take care of our environment and protect our citizens (especially our children).
Pollution decreases the quality of environmental and human helath and decreases life expectancy.
I believe we all live in danger for lung cancer etc. here.
Yes
Maybe Governor Schwarzenegger could convince, or blackmail, GM into releasing and making available the EV (Electric vehicle) that they got HUGE federal grants to produce and when they were looking good, GM pulled them in favor of another HUGE grant for hydrogen which is years down the road. Could it be the oil companies are behind this? And what happened to CAlifornia's "0 Pollution" rule from the CARB?
I have asthma and every day of my life I have to be concerned about the air I breathe as it directly impacts how I feel and what I am able to do.
I have asthma. I am a nurse and care for children with respiratory problems, including asthma and cystic fibrosis. The air pollution and quality of the air we breathe directly affects the quality of our lives, today and in the future. Air polution harms not only those of us who have chronic respiratory problems, but contributes to the development of asthma and other respiratory problems in otherwise healthy people. The rate of asthma is soaring in this country and death from acute asthma attacks, especially among our children, remains a grave concern.
I have asthma
it is getting worse and we are doing nothing about it
health, the environment
Because I believe without caring for the earth, we are inadvertantly killing ourselves.
My brother and sister have asthma.
We need clean air to breathe.
Personally Id like to be able to breathe clean air. We should care more about making the planet a better place for future generations.
I am a kindergarten teacher and have seen young children struggling with the disease.
Air pollution is preventing our children from achieving their full health and growth potential.
I have had asthma since birth it effects almost every aspect of my life. Try living your life at times feeling like a 2 ton man is standing on your chest it's not cool.
I am not just concern for myself I am concerned for the whole world for the earth where we live is speacial what we have here is a gift it we don't take care of it we may become extinct as well as the beauty of it.
My wife Lived most of her life in Baltimore Baltimore, MD without any Hay fever, asthma or skin allergies,but her twin sister and two younger sisters had severe hayfever and asthma. In Seattle from the age of four years I grew up with severe nasal hay fever and asthma ever summer. My sons and daughter also have suffered with severe symptoms of hay fever during every summer in the more than a score of states all over America. Finally we settled 11 years ago here in Los Angeles, CA and to her dismay found herself afflicted with hay from the dust, desert molds, and grasses here. Medicines, pills, cleanliness, gargles, & shots have never completely relieved the sypmtoms and side effects. I have driven for almost 50 years, we gave up all smoking more than 20 years ago while living in NYC, and have tried several rigorous diets. All to no effect or relief. I have come to the conclusion THAT THE CARPET OF SMOG FROM CARS, TRUCKS, SUV's, etc.. GREATLY CONTRIBUTE TO OUR MALADIES.
Obviously we need to breathe clean pure air. In May 2001 I bought a hybrid electric auto. not so much for thrifty fuel as my own sense of Personal Responsibilty for Cleaner Air.
Several of my grandchildren suffer from asthma. Clean aid is what we all need, but they need it most.
aid pollution harms each of us, rich and poor, as we try to live healthy lives. But we have to get cars without smog.
to many people are getting sick. also everything in the air comes to the ground, sooner or later.
Clean air is imperative to healthy people and animals. How could I not be concerned about air pollution?
It put a strain on members of my family who suffer from asthma.
It can cause many health problems.
I believe my son aquired asthma through our "dirty air" and I hate that as an active 4yr old sometimes he has to watch from the side lines
It is too commom for children to have asthma these days. Growing up I didn't know of any children who suffered from this.
I am fortunate to live in area where air pollution is minimal, but if our dependency on fossil fuels continues indefinelty, I am sure everyone will live in a polluted city
There are too many cars! and not enough carpooling, public transit users, and or hybrid owners... let's get smart.
I breathe air.
Please keep pollution under control before we lose our precious resources. Our air is getting more and more polluted every day. We have to stop this.
As an adult, I was diagnosed with asthma...this makes breathing in LA area difficult, especially in the summer.
It contributes to global warming; it adds millions of dollars to health care spending & no one should have to see what they're breathing.
Our air is a necessity of life and with each tree we cut down we have to make up for the oxygen it produces and instead air pollution makes it even worse.
Both of my childern have Asthma, I belive it is becuse i lived in the Los Angeles area when they were born. I too was recently digonised with Asthma; now that I know the symtptoms I belive that I have had it for may years including while I was a child. I spent my whole childhood living in the smog filled air of the San Gabriel valley. now I have moved away from that area and breath a bit easier but when I have to vist the smog filled valley I find it hard to breath for several days after the vist.
nobody should have to have an Asthma atack just becuse the air is filled with smog.
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I'm really fond of breathing, and don't want California's air to get any worse.
health problems, global warming, destruction to our ecosystem
Several of my friends in smoggy Los Angeles suffered from asthma during the Fifties and Sixties. They were often unable to engage in active play.
I left the Los Angeles area when I was in my early twenties, specifically because I believe that oxygen is vital to breathing organisms.
It is devastating to all life on earth
we all breathe it