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03/16/12

What is the connection between the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline that would carry Tar Sands Oil from Alberta, Canada to Texas, and my children’s health? And why would I not only risk arrest to stop this pipeline from being build, but actually allow myself to get arrested? As a mom, my children come...

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Harriet Shugarman

Environmental Health

03/16/12

From Julia in Indiana: How Our Current Polluted Air Affects My Family We in Indianapolis suffer from air pollution. I witnessed this first hand when my asthmatic child was gasping for breath in the city, yet he didn't have to use his inhaler one time on a family trip to Canada. When we arrived back...

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Gloria Pan

Environmental Health

03/16/12

From Judith in Nebraska: I Have Seen Misery I am a retired RN who has seen the agonizing last days of those who have breathed unclear air for much of their lives. This is a most miserable way to die, unable to fill one's lungs with life-giving air because of the damage that has taken place over...

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Gloria Pan

Childcare & Early Education Environmental Health

03/16/12

Portland, Oregon has been celebrated as one of the leading green cities in America. Due to land use planning aimed at limiting sprawl, transportation infrastructure that has prioritized public transit over single occupancy vehicles, and a populace both home grown and those who have migrated here,...

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Mary Peveto

Environmental Health Health Care

03/16/12

Our society goes to great lengths to protect children’s health, from fancy car seats to an elaborate system of recalls on any faulty children’s products. And why shouldn’t we take extra precautions to protect the most vulnerable among us and our future? Somehow when it comes to protecting children...

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Diane Bailey

Environmental Health

03/16/12

Here is an excerpt from the article, New Research Links Environment and Autism , by Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff, Executive Director & CEO, Healthy Child Healthy World : On Monday (7/4/11), the story broke that researchers at the University of California at San Francisco and Stanford University...

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Gina Badalaty

Environmental Health

03/16/12

According to First Lady Michelle Obama, in a piece she wrote for the Healthy Child Healthy World book , when her daughter Malia was about three years old, they took a family outing to the circus where Malia’s breathing became more and more strained. The Obamas rushed her to the emergency room where...

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Rachel Sarnoff

Environmental Health

03/16/12

Around 11 p.m. most nights I find myself standing at the foot of each of my three boys’ beds. I stand and I listen. Sometimes it’s hard to hear over the roar of the heat or the drone of the fan, but I don’t leave until the sound I’m waiting for is confirmed. I patiently stay until I hear the air...

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Lori Popkewitz Alper

Environmental Health

03/16/12

LAWRENCE — The American Lung Association released a new report, Luchando por el Aire : The Burden of Asthma on Hispanics, which provides an overview of the complex biological, environmental, political and cultural factors that increase asthma’s burden on the Hispanic population in Massachusetts and...

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Rumbo News

Environmental Health

03/16/12

I wrote this post ,on my phone, this morning at 2:25 . It’s 2 in the morning and I just gave my son his asthma medicine. 2 puffs of Albuterol. Out of nowhere, he started to cough in the middle of his sleep. The first cough woke me up and the first thing that came to my mind was, seriously ? You...

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Liz Cerezo