How Corporate Cash Threatens the Environment

If there's one issue that hasn't been talked about enough in this election, it's the environment.

Yet the difference between the parties is stark: Republicans, bankrolled by polluters like the Koch Brothers, want to cut the EPA and rollback or weaken vital environmental protections like the Clean Air and Clean Water Act, laws that ensure millions of Americans can breath our air and drink our water safely.

Mitt Romney calls the EPA "a tool in the hands of the President to crush the private enterprise system," and has vowed to block needed protections on things like fracking and carbon emissions.

You can view the new video here: http://youtu.be/vO1mMF2Pcpc

Interviews include Rep. Raul Grijalva (AZ-7); Jason Kowalski, Policy Director at 350.org; David Doniger from the Natural Resources Defense Council and former director of climate change policy at the EPA; and Joe Mendelson, director of global warming policy at the National Wildlife Federation, who share the history, purpose, and success of our environmental laws, and push back on the Republican lie that environemntal protections are bad for the economy.

With the health of millions of Americans potentially impacted by the dangerous positions of Mitt Romney and Republican lawmakers, it's vital that this issue isn't forgotten this election season. Help us spread the word by sharing the video.

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This documentary film was produced and edited by Chase Whiteside (interviews), Erick Stoll (camera), and Liz Cambron.

Graphic design by Chase Whiteside.
Motion design by Ashley Walton (ashleywalton.com).
Music from the brilliant Jon Brion.

THANKS
Sean Barma, Laura Dawn, Suzanne Struglinski, Jamie Henn, Adam Sarvana, Natural Resources Defense Council, Nation Wildlife Federation, 350.org

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• Category

  News & Politics

[Curtis Schaldach]

journalistic excellence. Great work

[braithmorgan]

Companies will not police themselves... This should be so obvious to everyone...

We see this not only with the environment but, on Wall ST. and in their way of conducting business...

[Jim Speiser]

First indication that someone has not done their research: The exhortation to "do some research!"

Second indication: The Tea Party flag in their avatar....

[braithmorgan]

Well the corporations are paying/bribing them to believe in such fantasies. Congressional term limits and restrictions on members of congress turning around to work for the special interest groups that had lobbied them is what we should demand...

because although congress will eagerly and without the usual political posturing...elect to give themselves salary increases, they will not even give congressional term limits a thought...

[theglassplotful]

yet somehow the GOP believes that in the end companies will do the right thing. What a delusional idea.

[MrLibertarian94]

that particular case is true, and there are times the EPA is needed, however it does more harm than good. It is extremely corrupt. We definitely need to reform it or limit its power

[Joshua Gross]

going to have to disagree with that, Lake Erie did use to be on fire

[MrLibertarian94]

We've always had clean air and water

[Joshua Gross]

At least I have clean air and water

[MrLibertarian94]

My evidence is the families who have been kicked off their land for political reasons. The EPA is undoubtedly corrupt, do some research on it. It's against the rules to even have a garden in your front yard

[Joshua Gross]

Ok, your evidence?