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Learn More: Wood Fires and Woodsmoke. Reasons to Ban Wood Burning. How to Take a High Impact Photo. December 11, 2015. We’re a coalition of experts and advocates with broad knowledge of the harmful health effects of breathing woodsmoke. Our mission is to curtail woodsmoke as a component of air pollution, to protect air quality and public health. Long ago, most communities passed ordinances protecting people from secondhand cigarette smoke. Dr Brian Moench, Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment.
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Learn More: Wood Fires and Woodsmoke. Reasons to Ban Wood Burning. How to Take a High Impact Photo. May 20, 2016. Who doesn't love BBQ? As many know, you don't have to travel to Texas to satisfy your cravings; a trip up N. Williams is all it takes. Is this my most 'popular' FaceBook post ever? Air Purifier Wrap Up. May 5, 2016. We all want clean air and our homes are the best place to control our environment. But instead of 3 or 4 air purifiers, wouldn't a dozen houseplants do the job just as well? Some ...
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What are the costs? | airAdvocacy
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Learn More: Wood Fires and Woodsmoke. Reasons to Ban Wood Burning. How to Take a High Impact Photo. What are the costs? January 29, 2015. A family physician in Napa Valley, California wrote to the California Senate Environmental Quality Committee in 2014,. In California the costs for treating these diseases are enormous. According to a recent New York Times article, California’s Medicaid program spent $61 million on asthma. Subscribe to our newsletter. Final DEQ Woodsmoke Recommendations.
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Learn More: Wood Fires and Woodsmoke. Reasons to Ban Wood Burning. How to Take a High Impact Photo. Have the feeling that no matter if you have all your doors and windows closed, the smoke finds a way in? You’re correct, but don’t take our word for it. Instead download the Infiltration of Black Carbon Particles from Residential Woodsmoke into Nearby Homes. Thatcher, Kirchstetter, Malejan and Ward. Woodsmoke easily penetrates homes of neighbors creating concentrations up to 88% as high as outdoor air.
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Learn More: Wood Fires and Woodsmoke. Reasons to Ban Wood Burning. How to Take a High Impact Photo. November 29, 2013. In October 2013 the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), part of WHO, classified particulate matter. PM), a major component of air pollution, as a Group 1 carcinogen. Woodsmoke is comprised of PM and residential heating and cooking is a predominant source of air pollution. The IARC evaluation shows an increasing risk of lung cancer with increasing levels of exposure to PM.
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Learn More: Wood Fires and Woodsmoke. Reasons to Ban Wood Burning. How to Take a High Impact Photo. Environmental Justice is the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of. Laws, regulations, and policies. It’s ironic, but true. We work for environmental justice, but it often fights us. Picture yourself living there if you had a daughter with asthma. In many of our most e...
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Learn More: Wood Fires and Woodsmoke. Reasons to Ban Wood Burning. How to Take a High Impact Photo. Woodsmoke is the only pollution emitted right where people spend most of their time their home. Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment. You’re not alone. We’ve all been there. We’ve all suffered from involuntary exposure to woodsmoke. We find strength in each other we share best practices. What works for some of us might be different for you. We’ll listen. Your City, State or Province.
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Learn More: Wood Fires and Woodsmoke | airAdvocacy
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Learn More: Wood Fires and Woodsmoke. Reasons to Ban Wood Burning. How to Take a High Impact Photo. Learn More: Wood Fires and Woodsmoke. Because wood is among the most natural substances on earth, and its use as a fuel is universal, most people imagine that burning wood must be a perfectly benign thing to do. Breathing winter air scented by wood smoke seems utterly unlike puffing on a cigarette or inhaling the exhaust from a passing truck. But this is an illusion. I was when I first learned. It’s ...
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Learn More: Wood Fires and Woodsmoke. Reasons to Ban Wood Burning. How to Take a High Impact Photo. Cities of the Future. The California Air Resources Board. Says air pollution claims 5,000 premature deaths each year in Southern California. That’s a big number that does’t garner the attention it deserves. Consider an equivalent scenario what if a plane crashed in L.A. every month, killing all onboard? The numbers would work out the same, but the outcry would be immensely different. Addressing this proble...
