U.S. EPA: It is Youngsters’s Well being Month – CleanTechnica – Uplaza

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WASHINGTON — In the present day, October 1, 2024, EPA is recognizing October as Youngsters’s Well being Month. Yearly, EPA begins the autumn season by elevating consciousness in regards to the essential position our surroundings performs within the skill for our nation’s kids to develop up wholesome and pleased.

“Every child deserves to breathe clean air, drink clean water, and live in healthy, thriving neighborhoods,” stated EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan, “At EPA we are committed to making this a reality by advancing policies that reduce health disparities, and ensure that communities have the tools to safeguard their children’s future and lifelong health.”

Youngsters, particularly in susceptible communities, are prone to the damages of air pollution and local weather change. Their creating our bodies are delicate to toxins, the place they stay can enhance their publicity to pollution and poverty can affect their restoration from environmental exposures. Early publicity to pollution can final a lifetime. Most lately, EPA took these actions to advance kids’s well being safety:

• Launching the Children and Local weather Well being Zone, a set of tales and details about how local weather stressors are impacting kids’s well being at numerous life levels throughout completely different areas of the U.S.
• Lowering diesel emissions and creating cleaner air for kids and communities by awarding practically $900 million by means of the EPA Clear Faculty Bus Program Awards to roughly 53 faculty districts to assist the acquisition of over 3,400 zero-emission and clear faculty buses, a part of an general $5 billion funding.
• Lowering publicity to guide in consuming water for numerous households by means of the Ingesting Water State Revolving Fund (DWSRF), which introduced $3 billion to assist establish and substitute lead service traces, a part of a $9 billion complete funding to interchange an estimated 1.7 million lead service traces nationwide and $50 million in funding to scale back lead publicity in colleges.
• Stopping publicity to “forever chemicals” by investing $10 billion to deal with PFAS in water, establishing the first-ever nationwide consuming water customary for PFAS to guard over 100 million individuals, and initiating cleanup efforts at Superfund websites to guard kids and public well being.
• Finalizing a suite of requirements to scale back air air pollution from fossil fuel-fired energy vegetation and funding within the transition to a clear power economic system.
• Strengthening safeguards to guard households and youngsters from lead in contaminated soil at residential websites; and extra.

Because of the Biden-Harris Administration’s Investing in America agenda historic investments from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Legislation and the Inflation Discount Act are altering the world the place our kids stay, be taught and play.

Be part of us in celebrating Youngsters’s Well being Month. Become involved this October and be taught extra about kids’s environmental well being.

Information launch from U.S. EPA.