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Breathing Free in Tampa: Air pollution, urban design, and environmental equity
February 28, 2012
Tampa, Florida
Location: Crowne
Plaza Westshore, 5303 West Kennedy Boulevard, Tampa, Florida 33609
PSR Tampa Bay is beginning a
dinner speaker series to be held every other month. Our first dinner
meeting will be held on February 28th and will feature Amy Stuart,
PhD, University of South Florida, College of Public Health, Associate
Professor. Dr. Stuart will lead a discussion on air pollution and its
impacts on human health and the environment.
The cost is $30.00 per person and includes dinner, coffee and dessert.
Please RSVP by February 23rd to marybeth@psrtampabay.org.
Resources
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Pediatric Environmental Health Toolkit
The Toolkit is a combination of easy-to-use reference guides for health providers and user-friendly health education materials on preventing exposures to toxic chemicals and other substances that affect infant and child health. Read more »
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Coal Ash: The Toxic Threat to Our Health and Environment
Coal ash, one of the dirtiest secrets in American energy production, burst into the U.S. consciousness three days before Christmas, 2008 when an earthen wall holding back a huge coal ash disposal pond failed at the coal-fired power plant in Kingston, Tennessee. Read more »
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Prenatal Exposures
How is the developing fetus vulnerable to toxic chemical exposures, and how can our regulatory system more effectively protect our health in the prenatal period? From PSR's Environmental Health Policy Institute. Read more »