4 Practices To Keep Your Lungs Healthy : Life : koreaportal
Pure Essence Diffuser Breathe deeply Deep breathing clears the lungs and creates a full oxygen exchange. In a smallscale study published in the Indian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology, researchers concluded that deep breathing, even for only a few minutes, was beneficial for lung function-increasing the vital capacity (max lung capacity) of the volunteers after […]
Celebrating staff appreciation week at ACS | News
May is here, which means the end of this school year is quickly approaching. This week we are celebrating staff appreciation week for all of our Athens City Schools staff. Please be sure to let the staff of Athens City Schools know how much you appreciate them. This weekend we celebrate Mother’s Day. We are […]
Center for Green Schools Report on Indoor Air Quality in School
The Center for Green Schools at the U.S. Green Building Council has released a new report detailing how school districts around the country have continued to manage air quality within their schools during the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic. The report, Managing Air Quality in the Pandemic: How K-12 Schools Addressed Air Quality in […]
VDH releases COVID guidelines for summer camps
by: Ivy Tan Posted: May 5, 2022 / 11:12 AM EDT Updated: May 5, 2022 / 11:12 AM EDT RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The summer is just around the corner. For many families, that means sending kids to camp. If you are wondering about how the ongoing coronavirus pandemic may affect your child’s summer plans, […]
Houston May Exceed National Standards for Harmful Fine Particulate Matter, New Monitoring Shows
Big Gaps in Air Monitoring Air quality in the U.S. has improved tremendously over the last 50 years thanks to the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1970, but not all neighborhoods have benefited from these improvements. The law mandated the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) and to determine […]
Why funders need to look beyond electricity for economy-wide decarbonization – Clean Air Task Force
Toby Lockwood The recent IPCC 6th Assessment Report highlights the remarkable progress made by wind and solar power. In the last decade, these sources of low-carbon electricity have seen costs fall by 55% and 85% respectively, helping them grow to provide around 10% of global power generation. However, decarbonizing electricity is only half the battle. […]
Advanced low-emission energy and climate technologies in national climate commitments – Clean Air Task Force
Stacey Davis CATF analysis finds both developed and developing countries plan to use advanced low-emission energy and climate technologies to meet climate goals Reaching net-zero emissions climate goals will require unprecedented changes in how we produce and use energy around the world. Part of the solution will require increased deployment of already-commercial technologies like solar […]
Wide array of countries include carbon management, hydrogen, and nuclear energy in their climate commitments – Clean Air Task Force
New analysis from Clean Air Task Force (CATF) finds that both developed and developing countries plan to use advanced low-emission energy and climate technologies like carbon management, hydrogen, and nuclear energy to meet their climate goals – underscoring the importance of increasing funding and advancing research, government support, and international collaboration to commercialize these technologies […]
Air Pollution Research Reveals Exposure Disparities in Bay Area
After working with EDF and partners to map hyperlocal pollution in Oakland, CA using Google Street View vehicles, researchers Dr. Joshua Apte (University of California, Berkeley) and Dr. Sarah Chambliss (University of Texas at Austin) collected additional mobile data across the San Francisco Bay Area to expand understanding of street-level air quality and disparities in […]
EPA needs to consider this in benefit-cost assessments of policies
This blog was co-authored by Jeremy Proville, Director: Office of the Chief Economist, and Ananya Roy, Senior Health Scientist at EDF. New analysis finds that prevalent methods of assessing impacts of air pollution underestimate pollution’s health impacts on people of color. Everyone has the right to breathe clean air. Yet communities of color, falsely labeled […]