About the Healthy Air Campaign

Leveraging decades of leadership and expertise in securing strong clean air standards, we advocate to policymakers in support of clean air and climate action. Like all our work at the American Lung Association, we base our healthy air advocacy in science. We call on decision-makers to set science-based limits on air pollution and work to cut carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases that cause climate change. We pair research with personal stories to put a human face on the impacts of unhealthy air. And we unite patients, health professionals and health organizations in the charge.

We mobilize volunteers from across the country to meet with their lawmakers and to testify before the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. We release trusted reports and earn widespread media coverage. We conduct public opinion polls that track voters’ support of clean air protections. We launch ads like our hard-hitting Red Carriage series to drive change. And when we need to, we take our fight for healthy air to court. 

The Lung Association’s Healthy Air Campaign leads a coalition of national public health, medical, nursing and health care organizations in our healthy air advocacy efforts. We are united in our calls for action on air pollution and climate change. 

The Healthy Air Campaign’s advocacy priorities are based on the Lung Association’s science-based, board-approved Public Policy Positions and Public Policy Agenda. Learn more about what we advocate for.