EPA Ozone Standard Better, but Not Low Enough
[Joint Press Release] On October 1, the EPA released a new ozone rule that will reduce the allowable level of ozone in our air from 75 parts per billion to 70 ppb. While the rule is a good first step...
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Playin’ and Prayin’ for a Cleaner North Carolina
On the eve of Pope Francis’ speech to the US Congress, MAHA joined Raleigh-area families and religious leaders in Playin’ and Prayin’ for a Cleaner North Carolina at the Church of the Nativity in...
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Students Learn about Ground-Level Ozone in the Ozone Garden
Ground-level ozone is a pollutant that damages plant and human health. Students at Shamrock Gardens Elementary can see this first hand by monitoring their ozone garden right outside their classroom! On...
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Charlotte Welcomes the NC Bike Summit and 1st Annual Biketoberfest!
This past weekend uptown Charlotte was the center of the bicycle universe for North Carolina. Hundreds of bicycle enthusiasts, young and old, attended the 4th Annual NC Bike Summit brought to us by...
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NC Mobile CARE Awards Highlight Charlotte Fire Department’s Anti Idling...
On October 20, many individuals and organizations were recognized for reducing transportation emissions at the 2015 NC Mobile Clean Air Renewable Energy Awards ceremony held during the NC Clean...
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Last-minute change in Regulatory Reform Act allows DAQ to retain air monitors...
House Bill 765, aka the Regulatory Reform Act of 2015, which Governor McCrory signed into law October 23rd, started out as a relatively innocuous bill regarding the transport of gravel in rural areas....
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Thank You Rep. Price for Bill Banning Fracking on Public Land
Congressman David Price meets with NC partners to ban fracking in the state Medical Advocates for Healthy Air members and staff joined Food and Water Watch, North Carolina, Environment NC, and other...
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ASU Students Learn How NGOs Promote Healthy Air Policies
Howard Neufeld, a professor in the biology department at Appalachian State University, wants the students in his Air Pollution and Climate Change class to know more than the just how air pollution...
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MAHA to Gov McCrory: Address Climate Change with a Strong Clean Power Plan...
The EPA’s Clean Power Plan, the first national effort to address the carbon emissions that cause climate change, supports a transition to reduce carbon pollution that is already underway in the power...
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Air Pollution Affects Children’s Health more than Doctors Realize
Air pollution was not on their radar, but the thirty medical professionals who attended a Pediatric Grand Rounds presentation by Medical Advocates for Healthy Air at Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital in...
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Social Scientists Must Weigh in on Effects of Climate Change
“2016 Our Changing Planet” Report How do you make plans and decisions when everything you do is affected, often in exponential shifts, and you really don’t know for sure what is going to happen? That’s...
View ArticlePublic Health Groups Team Up To Fight Air Pollution & Protect Public Health
On Monday, February 29, Moms Clean Air Force NC, Mothers & Others for Clean Air, Medical Advocates for Healthy Air, and Clean Air Carolina, announced a new, collaborative effort, the Healthy Air...
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Can Motivational Interviewing Help Break Our Fossil Fuel Addiction?
Medical Advocates for Healthy Air exhibited at the recent Asthma Made Easy conference hosted by the Wake County Asthma Coalition, which featured a presentation on how asthma educators could use...
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Raleigh, NC — Climate change has been implicated in a number of public health concerns, including more incidents of heat-related illness and injuries and displacement due to severe weather, Dr. Jeffrey...
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Litigating the Clean Power Plan – Where Does the Burden Lie?
Climate change is the greatest environmental and public health challenge we face, and the EPA’s Clean Power Plan is the first nationwide effort to address the carbon pollution that causes it. This Plan...
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Reducing Methane from Natural Gas Critical for Reaching Climate Target, Say...
Speaking at Duke University during an event sponsored by Clean Air Carolina’s partner NC WARN, Dr Robert Howarth explained how his optimism derived from his experience as a scientific advisor at COP21...
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NC’s Renewables Capacity, Poor Gas Reserves Make Fracking Unfeasible, Tony...
An analysis of the costs and benefits of shale gas development through hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in North Carolina finds it unlikely that investors would make a profit, according to Dr Tony...
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Fighting Climate Change Requires a Moral Imagination and Societal Overhaul
When your whole country is at risk of disappearing under the sea, you take action. The new film by Josh Fox, How to Let Go of the World and Love All The Things Climate Can’t Change, documents how the...
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CME/CEU Credits Offered for MAHA Training on Air Pollution Health Effects and...
A growing body of research on air pollution is revealing its potential for serious health impacts on patients that were previously unknown, and at pollution levels below current EPA standards. The...
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MAHA welcomes Theresa Langston and Dr. Greg Kearney to Advisory Board
Medical Advocates for Healthy Air (MAHA) is advised by a board of medical and health professionals who are passionate about protecting North Carolinians from air pollution. The term for the voluntary...
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