What If Polluter Lobbyists Were Replaced by Asthmatic Kids?

This ad from the Natural Resource Defense Council started running March 6 in support of President Obama and the EPA's proposed new safeguards.  Says the NRDC: "The ad reflects the growing body of scientific evidence that warming temperatures caused by industrial carbon pollution worsen smog pollution, which in turn causes asthma attacks and other respiratory illnesses.  The Environmental Protection Agency is planning, as early as next week, to propose first-ever safeguards against industrial carbon pollution from new power plants."  Leading public health groups like the American Lung Association and the American Public Health Association support strict limits on industrial carbon pollution and have linked this dangerous air pollution to asthma attacks, heart attacks and even premature deaths. The utility industry so far has been amazingly quiet about the campaign.