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We have a choice: Clean air or more money for the polluting companies, which will bring more sickness and disease for our Ohio citizens....

In Cambria County, Pennsylvania, where I was born and raised, most men worked in the coalmines. Grandfathers and fathers were dying from black lung...

Climate change poses serious threats to the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat.

I had a severe respiratory illness about a month ago, from which I thought I had recovered. However, after spending 2 hours in my garden this morni...

A cold is not just a cold for a child with asthma. It can quickly turn into pneumonia or worse, hospitalization. A change in weather as well as day...

My life changed forever on August 11, 2010. A typical hot, muggy August day, my beloved son Jovante returned home after his varsity football practi...

Lung disease has been a health battle for me throughout my entire life. As a child I suffered with croup and inflammation of the upper airways. Bot...

I have an inflammatory disease called sarcoidosis that effects my lung function. As of today, my lungs work at only 48 percent, which makes certain...

I have had asthma for over 60 years. As a child I missed so much school and social things that it made me a person who had trouble with everyday li...

My new lungs are doing just fine, but I’ll never truly be out of the woods. I’m on immune-suppressants every day. Clean air is vital to...

Clean air matters to Michael, my 11-year-old son and me. Michael was diagnosed with asthma two years ago and it’s been an uphill battle ever ...

I am very concerned about efforts underway at the national level to rollback air quality standards. I was a microbiologist for 45 years and also su...

My asthmas started when I was six months old and first became sick with double pneumonia. From then on, my life has been full of wheezing and hospi...

Air quality is an issue that greatly concerns me.  I am especially concerned about the long-term effect of breathing in toxins emitted in vehi...

Both my sixteen-year-old son and eleven-year-old daughter have had severe asthma nearly their entire lives.

We discovered my son has asth...