The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has released an assessment of EPA’s strategy to protect the health of our children from environmental health risks. The biggest health threat to children comes in the air we breathe: In 2007, for example, 66 percent of children lived in counties where air exceeded one or more of the six [...]
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April 30, 2009
Still Sacrificing Children and the Elderly
Buried in both the print and on-line editions of the Washington Post was the news that the Baltimore-Washington region has some of the most polluted air in the nation. The American Lung Association puts our region number 14 in their ranking of urban areas with the worst smog. The very young and the very old [...]
