USA Today's New Article on Schools, Toxic Air Pollution and Asthma

USA Today has identified over 20,000 schools located within half a mile of major industrial plants spewing sulfuric acid, naphthalene, ammonia, benzene and other toxins into the air. These chemicals have been shown to cause respiratory ailments such as asthma. Reporters look at plants located near early education centers and the vulnerability of young children's developing lungs. Click here.

USA TODAY Releases New Study on ‘Toxic Hot Spot’ Schools

USA TODAY has just released a new study of schools where the outside air poses an unacceptable health risk from chemical contamination to young children and school staff.
The report identifies 435 schools as ‘toxic hot spots.’ CHEJ has been a leader in the fight against toxic schools and worked for the passage of National School Siting Guidelines. Join our campaign for safer schools today.

Click here to read the article and take action against toxic schools.

City Is Cited for Insufficient Safeguards at School Campus Being Built on Brownfield

New York City officials violated state environmental law
when they began building a school complex on a contaminated site in the South Bronx without first coming up with a plan to ensure that students and the public would not be exposed to pollutants in the future, a state judge has ruled. Read More

Community Activist Brian Wooley Deserves Our Thanks

For a long time, many in the city's establishment didn't think much of the Wasted Away group that Mr. Woolley founded. Officialdom at most levels of government doesn't like whistleblowers, gadflies or public embarrassment, and Wasted Away was viewed for a long time as nothing but a bunch of crankcases who had it in for city and state government just because of some overblown concerns about environmental contamination at the site of the new Keith Middle School, New Bedford High School and other former industrial sites in the city. Read More

Ten Ways to Get Disney to Go Green!