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PARTNERSHIP EVENTS
Partnership call: Advancing Risk Assessment: Progress and Ongoing Obstacles
4/26/12: MP3 recording available: CHE Cafe call: Designing Healthy Communities: a conversation with Richard Jackson, MD, MPH
CHE WORKING GROUP EVENTS
CHE Alaska call: Little Changes: A Discussion with Author Kristi Marsh on How to Avoid Chemicals in Food and Everyday Products:
May 30, 2012
CHE Fertility and Reproductive Health and CHE EMF working groups call: EMF and Reproductive Health Risks:
May 21, 2012
Cumulative Impacts Working Group Strategic Meeting:
May 22, 2012
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Asthma: Newsfeed
20 May Increase in mining traffic heightens San Joaquin Valley air pollution worries. In Reedley, a farming town southeast of Fresno and within a few miles of three rock quarries, residents fear that even gravel trucks, with their dirty exhaust, will be on the road if nearby mining is expanded. And that is exactly what is in the pipeline. 20 May Delhi traffic cops to get anti-pollution masks. Traffic police are among the most vulnerable to several diseases. Braving extreme weather conditions and inhaling all kinds of pollutants, thousands of traffic policemen manage traffic on the roads all day. Result - many of them suffer from a volley of diseases such as respiratory problems, heart diseases, cancer, musculoskeletal and neurological disorders. 20 May McAllen area jumps 14 spots in nation's worst for asthma. A high pollen count and second-hand smoke were two contributors this year as the McAllen-Mission-Edinburg area jumped to ninth from 25th as the worst place in the country for asthma. 19 May Hard-hit neighborhoods in LA seek zoning protection. They're calling it Clean-Up, Green-Up. It's a proposal to create special zones around some of the most polluted neighborhoods in Los Angeles. It?s a response to residents who say: enough is enough - no more pollution. The idea: clean up the environment and help businesses thrive at the same time. 19 May New EPA carbon pollution limit draws criticism and record support. With the support of more than 1 million Americans, including approximately 31,000 Massachusetts residents, a coalition of environmental groups will deliver comments to the Environmental Protection Agency Friday to support a proposed carbon pollution limit for new power plants. 19 May Benefits of wind power make tax credit a smart idea. Across the nation, the wind- power industry is experiencing its most robust growth ever. But entrenched special interests and their friends in Congress are blocking an extension of the production tax credit that has helped drive much of my industry's growth. 19 May Mark Ruffalo: Colorado mothers battle to stop drilling. Four mothers in Erie, Colo., are doing something extraordinary to ensure the health and safety of their children. Their effort will help expose the truth about natural gas. 18 May Health panel urges asthma control. A summit sponsored by Allegheny General Hospital and The Breathe Project during World Asthma Month highlights a chronic, incurable disease that results in 456,000 hospitalizations and 3,447 deaths a year. The Breathe Project estimates that 51,000 children in Southwestern Pennsylvania alone have asthma. 18 May Sierra Club protests coal as fuel. Environmentalists campaigned Thursday against the use of coal as an energy source at a shareholders meeting of Oklahoma Gas & Electric, a company that operates two of the state?s oldest coal-fired plants. 18 May Asthma and traffic pollution. In spite of strong evidence, our health and environmental authorities have been staring down the barrel of a smoking gun and doing nothing about it. 17 May Child-study turmoil leaves bitter taste. Thousands of parents are facing an uneasy transition as the National Children's Study grapples with its budget woes and undertakes a wholesale restructuring. The affair has unleashed acrimony at all levels, starting with the first seven pilot sites, which are slated to shut down this summer. Scores of fieldworkers will lose their jobs. 17 May Dust in the wind? Activists fighting six coal export terminals in the Northwest say transporting massive amounts of coal - all of it through the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area - would degrade the land, air and water and endanger public health. But climate change is the overriding issue here. 17 May EPA's Jackson signs new air standards. Federal EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson told members of a U.S. Senate subcommittee Wednesday she has now signed a policy setting new Mercury and Air Toxics Standards for coal and oil-fired power plants. 17 May Asthma summit highlights regional problems. Pollution and high obesity rates help to make Pittsburgh the fourth highest in the nation for asthma rates, according to experts at an asthma summit on the North Side on Wednesday. 16 May Medical records could yield answers on fracking. A proposed study of people in northern Pennsylvania could help resolve a national debate about whether the natural gas boom is making people sick. If the study goes forward, it would be the first large-scale, scientifically rigorous assessment of the health effects of gas production. |