air quality

These days, you may find yourself spending more hours in and around your home due to COVID-19.  While home, we can take some small steps now to reduce our exposure to environmental toxins to stay healthy and prep our homes for the winter months. 

Clean Water Action joined the Moving Forward Network in holding a World Asthma Day Virtual Town Hall featuring elected officials, health professionals and grassroots leaders working on the front lines to address the root cause in “asthma hotspots” like Newark, Elizabeth, Camden, California as well as state legislators promoting environmental justice legislation. Watch here.

The best way to protect our health from the harms of pollution is to prevent pollution in the first place.

Lately I’ve been thinking about signs I’ve seen scattered around neighborhoods in Bakersfield with the proclamation, “Bakersfield – Life As It Should Be.” They’re kidding, right?