'People deserve better from the EPA': environmental activists protest clean air standards
When Hazel Chandler left Southern California in 1977, she thought moving to Arizona would give her clean air.Chandler, an Arizona field coordinator for Moms Clean Air Force, an affiliate of the Environmental Defense Fund, spoke at a rally at the Arizona state Capitol on Monday to call for stronger federal air quality standards.
Chandler has lived in cities with failing air quality grades for most of her adult life. She said she has asthma, chronic inflammation and immune dysfunction, and she experiences a spike in symptoms whenever air pollution levels rise.The Phoenix metro area, where Chandler lives, ranks fifth in the country for most ozone pollution and eighth in the country for most year-round particle pollution, according to aWinter air really is worse in south, west Phoenix.
"Merely breathing the air should not threaten our health, our quality of life, while shortening our lives," Chandler said. In January, the EPA proposed stricter standards for PM 2.5 pollution to reflect new research on its adverse health effects. The standards are based on yearly and daily average measurements. It's the first time that changes have been proposed in over a decade.The EPA is accepting public input about a range of potential limits on PM 2.5 pollution concentrations, and the rally organizers wanted people to contact the EPA to advocate for the lowest possible limits.
During her remarks, she called attention to the fact that Hispanic children are 40% more likely to die from asthma than non-Hispanic white children, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health.
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