asthma
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The irony of blaming inhalers for climate change
A new study suggests asthmatics switch to “green inhalers”
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Green science’s white people problem
The environmental sciences lack diversity — and that leaves holes in our understanding of health.
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Nearly 8,000 U.S. public schools are plagued by toxic air
Across the country, kids attend schools so close to busy roads that traffic exhaust poses a health risk.
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Asthma rates are starting to fall — just not for the poorest kids
Racial and socioeconomic disparities that plague the distribution of childhood asthma are thriving.
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Obama wants to give white children asthma, says blogger
You might think that air quality controls are about mitigating the health effects of breathing in pollution. If you’re a staunch Republican, you might think they’re about destroying capitalism. But blogger (and birther) Daren Jonescu knows what air quality controls are really about: Giving white children lung diseases. (And destroying capitalism.) Jonescu wrote a piece in […]
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These toxic household cleaners can cause asthma or burn your lungs
Ah, America. The country where you’re allowed to buy products containing hazardous chemicals that other countries have banned. The Environmental Working Group, the people who brought you the Dirty Dozen list of foods to buy organic, are taking an extensive look at the chemicals in more than 2,000 cleaning products. The group’s researchers are months […]
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Clean air ad featuring asthmatic kids is dangerously adorable
The Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) did a really good job at tugging every heartstring available in this new ad: Seriously, how much do you want to cry now? Maybe they really should send asthmatic kids into Congress as lobbyists. NRDC and Sierra Club are doing the closest thing possible without […]
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Sick of the suburbs: How badly designed communities trash our health
There’s no way around it: The suburbs make us sick. One brave researcher has set out to spread the word -- and suggest healthy alternatives.
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Lobbyists scoff at the idea of children’s health
The New York Times has a big article about the fight for ozone regulation, which apparently was pretty much EPA chief Lisa P. Jackson versus the world. It's an interesting meditation on the power of buzzwords — namedropping "the economy" and "jobs" helped neutralize support for the regulations, even though analyses showed that they wouldn't […]