The US EPA has released its Spring 2025 School Indoor Air Quality Newsletter, offering a wide array of resources, research updates, and upcoming opportunities to support healthy learning environments.
Volatile organic compounds and semi-volatile organic compounds are among the broad classes of compounds found in the indoor environment through emissions and leaching from building materials, furnishings and human activities.
This draft hazard review is the first federal-level authoritative document with a focus on wildland fire smoke among outdoor workers.
It’s the end of August, but it is never too late to ask questions about school conditions or practices that affect your child, other students, and staff.
Air Just Air, Clean Air in Schools (2024) includes summaries of each presentation, quotes, selected slides, and links to the summit video, additional resources, and speaker biographies.
Asthma is in every community all the time, in every season, outdoors and inside. Asthma at school is a tough issue for kids, for parents, for personnel, and for schools.
HSN’s founding issue is indoor air/environmental quality and we are especially concerned about schools that do not have mechanical air handling systems.
The meeting materials from the March 20, 2024, Federal Interagency Committee on Indoor Air Quality are now available on the CIAQ website.
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) is transforming how New York City children get to school, accelerating the transition to zero-emission vehicles, and producing cleaner air for our communities.
The US Environmental Protection Agency said Monday that it is taking a “historic” step by banning ongoing uses of asbestos, which has long been linked to multiple types of cancer.
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