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Not A Scientist…

March 16, 2012
I am not a scientist. I am not a politician. I am a mom. I am a teacher. I am a writer. I am an environmentalist. I want to protect my family. I care about the planet. When I became increasingly concerned about the food my family eats, the oceans we swim in, the cars we drive and the air we breathe...
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Ronnie Citron-Fink
Environmental Health

One Mom's Story of the Real Costs of Asthma

March 16, 2012
Cara and Cailey Asthma is only one of many health problems related to air pollution. But it’s a big one. According to statistics compiled by the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology , approximately 34 million Americans have been diagnosed with asthma; 9 million of those are children...
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Molly Rausch
Health Care

Two Movements Approach the Tipping Point

March 16, 2012
After years of gains and setbacks, the national movement for same-sex marriage is enjoying a period of remarkable success. Massachusetts and Connecticut became first adopters in 2004 and 2005 and that came after twenty years of advocacy. Turmoil followed, especially in California. But in 2009 three...
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Barbara Coombs Lee
Environmental Health

Clean Air: An Essential Ingredient in Public Health

March 16, 2012
There’s nothing more important to nurses than their family, patients, and communities. Recently, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Clean Air Act have been under attack from some members of Congress who have put protecting polluters ahead of protecting public health! Nurses from around the...
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Katie Huffling
Environmental Health

Children, Elderly Paying for Colstrip Pollution

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

Body of Evidence, Face of a Child

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

24 Million Americans Gasping for Air

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

Will Bullies Win the Fight for Clean Air?

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

Asthma, Allergies and Fighting for Clean Air for My Children

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

MomsRising Voices: Clean Air Stories II

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

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