Have We Forgotten About Newtown?

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Friday April 05, 2013 · 10:14 AM PDT

2013/04/05 · 10:14

Just three short months after the tragic shooting deaths of 20 first graders at Sandy Hook Elementary School… Just weeks after a Chicago infant was killed in cross fire… And just days after President Obama made an impassioned plea to the American people to “remember how we felt 100 days ago, and make sure that what we said at that time wasn’t just a bunch of platitudes, that we meant it”… I woke up to this front-page Washington Post headline:

“Gun measures may be in jeopardy in Congress – Post-Newtown push falters.” (Online headline)

What?! When I look at my kids and think about those first graders, I definitely haven’t forgotten Sandy Hook, and I definitely haven’t faltered.

Have you?

GloPan

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Thursday November 15, 2012 · 11:57 AM PST

2012/11/15 · 11:57

Everyone has the right to breathe clean, life-giving air. Air, however, is not equally clean for all communities, resulting in disparities in health, healthcare and quality of life.

MomsRising, NAACP, Presente, American Lung Association and Consumers Union invite everyone interested in Clean Air for All to participate in a blog carnival. This online event aims to raise a chorus of voices to elevate clean air as a public health and civil rights issue – among and for all communities.

We invite all participants to think broadly, since clean air is connected to everything. Want to write about Hurricane Sandy, climate change and fairness? Go ahead!

Here are some blog post ideas:
• Clean air in communities
• Clean air in schools
• Clean air in playgrounds
• Asthma disparities
• Asthma healthcare and health costs
• Economic impact of pollution on community businesses
• Clean air as a civil rights issue
• Response to Hurricane Sandy in different New York neighborhoods
• Climate change and communities of color
• Obama’s environmental legacy
• Personal stories about asthma, mercury poisoning or other air-related illness, with fairness angle
• Mothers as community organizers for clean air
• The daily burden on parents in protecting their kids from air pollution
• Economic impact of pollution on families
• African-American women, gender and asthma mortality
• Any idea you may come up with related to clean air and environmental justice!

GloPan

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Monday July 23, 2012 · 12:26 PM PDT

2012/07/23 · 12:26

Hey, it's summer! That means we can rip electronics out of our kids' hands and tell them to "go out and play!" But tragically, many of us will need to think twice about booting them outdoors because of air pollution. Studies have shown that air pollution can stunt growing lungs, particularly in children who spend a lot of time in the open air. Exposure to air polluted with nitrogen dioxide, acid vapors and particulate matter (soot) has been found to have the greatest association with impaired lung growth.

GloPan

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Monday July 02, 2012 · 11:39 AM PDT

2012/07/02 · 11:39

MomsRising today launched six-figure TV ad buys in Ohio and Pennsylvania to express gratitude for Senator Sherrod Brown’s and Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey’s courageous votes to turn back a proposal to block EPA’s life-saving limits on mercury and other toxic air pollution.

GloPan

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Wednesday June 27, 2012 · 3:41 PM PDT

2012/06/27 · 15:41

Tomorrow, Lisa P. Jackson, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, will testify in front of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology for the first time. It won’t be pretty. By the very title of the event, Strengthening the Scientific Backbone of the EPA: An Examination of Agency Practices and Foundations for Regulations Affecting the American Economy, anyone can see that its main purpose is to discredit EPA science. When the EPA’s scientific credibility is weakened, industry lobbyists have a much easier time in their efforts to block new public health protections such as the Soot Rule, recently proposed under the Clean Air Act, and chip away at existing ones, such as the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards.

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Have We Forgotten About Newtown?

Invitation to Blog Carnival: Clean Air and Environmental Justice

Polluted air can stunt children's lungs

Thank You, Senators Brown and Casey, for Protecting Kids from Mercury

UPDATED: I’m Not Letting EPA Mom Lisa Jackson Face the Science Deniers Alone

Have We Forgotten About Newtown?

Invitation to Blog Carnival: Clean Air and Environmental Justice

Polluted air can stunt children's lungs

Thank You, Senators Brown and Casey, for Protecting Kids from Mercury

UPDATED: I’m Not Letting EPA Mom Lisa Jackson Face the Science Deniers Alone

Polluted air can stunt children's lungs