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Respiratory Illness

Clean Air: You Have to Be In It to Win It

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 08.26.2011 | Impact
Read More: Green Activism, Children?S Environmental Health Network, Renewable Energy, Impact, The Sunlight Foundation, Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, Epa, Soylent Green, Environmental Justice, Impact News, Mercury Toxins, American Electric Power, Coal-Fired Power Plants, Moms Clean Air Force, Asthma, American Academy of Pediatrics, Air Toxins, New York Times, Respiratory Illness, American Lung Society, Mae Jemison, Environmental Protection Agency, Advocacy, Impact News
Marcia G. Yerman

Advocating for what you believe in is a lot of work, but getting what you don't want is much worse. Don't leave the heavy lifting to others.

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PHOTOS: Climbing Up The Hancock For Lung Health

The Huffington Post | Will Guzzardi | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
Read More: Hustle Up the Hancock, Lung Cancer, Respiratory Health, Slideadbigshot, Chicago, Asthma, Illinois, Respiratory Illness, Chicago Impact, John Hancock Center, Chicago News

When he was two years old, Jon Paul Adams started wheezing. His father rushed him to the emergency room a few times, and in December 2008, the child w...

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Exposed: Texas Big Oil Funding Petition to Kill California's Anti-Pollution Legislation

Jonathan Kim | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Read More: Dan Logue, American Lung Association, Green Jobs, Carbon Emissions, Alternative Energy, Valero, Green, Jonathan Kim, Big Oil Profits, Pollution, Green Energy, AB 32, Dennis Tootelian, Jim Sweeney, Union of Concerned Scientists, Big Oil, Greenhouse Gases, Tootelian & Associates, Respiratory Illness, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Tesoro, Green Energy Economy, Sanjay Varshney, Los Angeles News
Jonathan Kim

Oil refiners Valero Energy Corp. and Tesoro Corp. are funding a petition drive to get a measure on the ballot suspending AB 32, California's landmark law to limit greenhouse gas emissions.

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AB 32 Opponents Vulnerable on Pollution's Health Hazards

Jonathan Kim | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Read More: Air Particulates, University of Massachusetts, American Lung Association, Nrdc, AB 32 Implementation Group, University of Southern California, NRDC Action Fund, Particulate Matter, AB 32, California Air Pollution, Meg Whitman, Dennis Tootelian, Lung Cancer, University of California, Smog, California Air Resources Board, Asthma, Center for Resource Solutions, Respiratory Illness, Air Pollution, A.B. 32, Ozone, Sanjay Varshney, Los Angeles News
Jonathan Kim

Opponents of legislation that seeks to reduce greenhouse gases in California to 1990 levels by 2020 are asking us to put short-term economic interests ahead of people's health and safety.

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Health Centers: One of the Keys to Eradicating Poverty

Josh Ruxin | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Garth Brooks, Health Care, Rwanda, Ngeruka, Poverty, Africa, Genocide, Aids Treatments, Health Cenders, Aids, Malaria, Respiratory Illness, Diahhrea, World News
Josh Ruxin

Located at the epicenter of Rwanda's genocide, Ngeruka is a rural community that faces an array of health problems compounded by the fact that there is merely one small four-room health post servicing the entire community.

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Madonna, Africa and Child Mortality

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Hiv, United Nations, Malaria, Thought Leaders, Tb, Global Citizens, Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, Raising Malawi, Jim Luce, U.N. Millennium Development Goals, Respiratory Illness, Earth Institute, African Children, Infant Mortality, Africa, Madonna, Parasites, Malawi, Public Health, Mathew Luce, Parenting, Jeffry Sachs, Haiti, David Banda, Columbia University, Diarrhea, Mercy, Millennium Villages, N.Y.U. Medical School, Orphans International Worldwide, Dried Mopane Worms, World News
Jim Luce

The deaths of African children are all about food, water and cooking stoves. There is usually no public health system in place to address this tragic litany of otherwise very approachable issues.

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