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Fight Against Asthma by Adopting the Sky!

Target: Environmental Protection Agency
Sponsored by: Earthjustice

The incidence of asthma has risen dramatically in the past 20 years. But, in spite of the alarming statistics, the Environmental Protection Agency ignored the unanimous recommendation of its own scientists as well as many doctors across the U.S. for stronger clean air standards!

The effects of air pollution are reaching the smallest and most fragile Americans. 4.5 million U.S. kids suffer from asthma. 14 million missed school days occur every year because children are too sick to go to school. We can do better. We can adopt the sky.

Tell the Environmental Protection Agency to take responsibility and protect the public’s health. After you sign, you will "adopt" a mile of sky above the U.S.! Your personalized air bubble will appear on the adoptthesky.com website along with thousands of other people’s bubbles.

Send a letter to the EPA and adopt the sky today – it’s fun, it’s free and it will help clear our skies!

Note: If you don’t see your floating bubble on adoptthesky.com just yet, check back in a few days - it will be there!

deadline: 7-12-2008
goal: 15,000

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Dear Environmental Protection Agency,

America has a long and proud tradition of protecting its people's health and well-being. The American people have long benefited from the Clean Air Act, which safeguards the nation's air quality from pollution.

Ozone pollution, commonly referred to as smog, is an abundant air pollutant associated with increased asthma rates, difficulty breathing, more emergency room visits and even premature deaths. 4.5 million U.S. children suffer from asthma, 14 million school days are missed each year because asthmatic children are too sick to go to school, and thousands of asthma-related deaths occur every year.

The Environmental Protection Agency should heed the unanimous recommendation of its own scientists, as well as respected medical and health professionals across the country for stronger limits on smog.

I urge the Environmental Protection Agency to adopt ozone health standards at the most protective end of the range as recommended by the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee. The EPA has a responsibility to protect the public's health by listening to the recommendations of doctors, scientists, and numerous health and environmental groups calling for more protective limits on smog pollution in our communities.

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[Your Address]

We signed the “Fight Against Asthma by Adopting the Sky!” petition!

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1:01 pm PDT, Oct 30, Nichole Serfass, Pennsylvania

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8:45 am PDT, Oct 30, Jutka Gerocz, Romania

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7:32 am PDT, Oct 30, Brittany Worsley, Michigan

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9:03 pm PDT, Oct 29, Susan Alford-sandman, Massachusetts

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8:43 pm PDT, Oct 29, Debra Duff, Florida

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8:39 pm PDT, Oct 29, Hannah Sanders, California

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8:03 pm PDT, Oct 29, Name not displayed, Texas
I am an example of what "bad air" can do to a person...I have become a "canary in the coal mine"...so chemically sensitive to so many different things in the air that I have been forced to move out of big city pollution to a small town at least 100 miles away from all big cities! Yes, my breathing has been affected much by pollution. Please help keep the air clean for our generation and all future generations!

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7:05 pm PDT, Oct 29, Shawntelle Kuhlmann, Iowa

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6:13 pm PDT, Oct 29, Kathryn Foster, Texas

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5:53 pm PDT, Oct 29, Nina Kreytak, New York

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5:28 pm PDT, Oct 29, Jerri Walker, Maine

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4:40 pm PDT, Oct 29, Caprice Chave, California

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3:27 pm PDT, Oct 29, Julia Bay, Wisconsin

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2:39 pm PDT, Oct 29, Martin Sigrist, Switzerland

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1:33 pm PDT, Oct 29, Mike Berger, Canada

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1:24 pm PDT, Oct 29, Nadia Tyler, Texas
Nadia Tyler

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12:16 pm PDT, Oct 29, Michaela Kelly, Alaska
All need clean air for survival. Polluted air is killing our kids and the environment.

# 35,085:

12:04 pm PDT, Oct 29, Kyaram Warutian, Illinois

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9:07 am PDT, Oct 29, Gail Fry, Wisconsin
IF WE HAVE CLEAN AIR WE CAN STAY "HEALTHY" WHAT ABOUT YOU EPA AND YOUR FAMILIES????????????????????????

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4:20 am PDT, Oct 29, Kristin Norris, Tennessee

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12:42 am PDT, Oct 29, Anna Bjersby, Sweden

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10:39 pm PDT, Oct 28, Rosemary Hill, Michigan

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9:56 pm PDT, Oct 28, Sari Magazine, Florida
Having Asthma myself I deem this important. Keep my air clean!

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8:50 pm PDT, Oct 28, Shelley Hickman, California

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7:46 pm PDT, Oct 28, Brice Bettner, Pennsylvania

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7:27 pm PDT, Oct 28, Name not displayed, Pennsylvania

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7:22 pm PDT, Oct 28, Joyce Padgett, Texas

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4:03 pm PDT, Oct 28, Jill Perkins, New York

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2:27 pm PDT, Oct 28, Adrianne Leone, Connecticut

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12:12 pm PDT, Oct 28, Caitlin Horner, Ohio

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12:06 pm PDT, Oct 28, Robert "Bobby" Fromer-Bonilla, California
Please Please adopt the sky. My 4 year old nice is one of these many persons with this ugly and scary disease Asthma.It is very hard to watch her have an attack, espically when she was younger and couldn't tell us what was going on. WE have allosed enough of the air we have to breath taken away from us with all these polotion emission deals made with comopanies allowing them to spew more garbage into the air. These kind of practicesmust stop. The air quality Law is the air quality law and it must apply to EVERYONE! to me it's as simple as speeding. Either everyone drives at the posted speed or not. Why should I be able to drive 80mph when everyone else is following the law and driving 65mph? The same should apply with the laws that govern our air quality.

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11:10 am PDT, Oct 28, BJ Williams, Florida

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9:43 am PDT, Oct 28, Heather Geraw, Vermont

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9:25 am PDT, Oct 28, Dorice Calocci baty, Missouri

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7:48 am PDT, Oct 28, Lila Greathouse, Michigan
We need to do something now to protect the future of our planet!

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5:39 am PDT, Oct 28, Name not displayed, Minnesota

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3:42 am PDT, Oct 28, Carole Kubik, Ohio

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3:37 am PDT, Oct 28, Martha Kubik, Ohio

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1:57 am PDT, Oct 28, John Rowe, Florida

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12:01 am PDT, Oct 28, Diane Hafstad, Illinois
Please make the air cleaner for our future generations. It is too late for mine

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9:46 pm PDT, Oct 27, Mary Butler, Ohio
We MUST have CLEAN AIR in the United States. Too many people come down with asthma and other breathing difficulties. PLEASE make people clean the air so that it is pure and not causing sickness.

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9:21 pm PDT, Oct 27, Margret Sootoo, California

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8:22 pm PDT, Oct 27, Maria Maguire, Pennsylvania
I have noticed the increase of more and more school children having asthma over the years. And I have just been diagnosed with asthma at 48,and I am not a smoker.

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8:18 pm PDT, Oct 27, Dorothy Sherman, Maryland

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5:21 pm PDT, Oct 27, Marleny Alfaro, Florida
You too breathe this air, and your grandchildren will!!

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5:19 pm PDT, Oct 27, Sharon Wright, United Kingdom

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4:40 pm PDT, Oct 27, Dalya Dumarieh, North Carolina

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3:53 pm PDT, Oct 27, Kathy Cavana, Virginia

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2:42 pm PDT, Oct 27, Donna Vesay, Pennsylvania

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1:08 pm PDT, Oct 27, Nancy Glaviano, Utah

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