Environmental Health

March 16, 2012

As a nurse with decades of hospital experience, I've sat through nights with patients dying of respiratory failure, and calmed frightened parents as their children struggled to breathe during asthma attacks. These experiences caused me to focus my work on preventing illness instead of waiting until...

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Wade Hill

Environmental Health

March 16, 2012

Climate change affects human health, right here in the US. One face of climate change is the face of an asthmatic child, using an inhaler to breathe. NRDC has been working for years to connect the dots between the rapidly-growing body of evidence about carbon pollution, which causes climate change...

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Kim Knowlton

Environmental Health Health Care

March 16, 2012

That’s what a Center for Disease Control and Prevention newsletter, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly, reported yesterday: 24.6 million Americans suffer from asthma , a 12 percent increase over the last decade. One in every ten children has asthma and the prevalence increases with poverty – 13.5% of...

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Diane Bailey

Environmental Health

March 16, 2012

Remember when you were in grade school, playing some kind of team game and the score was so close? Your side got over the top—and then the most menacing member of the opposition would call, “Do-Over!” It seems that despite whatever advancements the Environmental Protection Agency makes to keep the...

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Marcia Yerman

Environmental Health

March 16, 2012

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

March 16, 2012

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

March 16, 2012

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

March 16, 2012

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

March 16, 2012

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

March 16, 2012

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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