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Northeastern States, CA and TX See High Rates of Air Pollution, Projected to Worsen Due to Climate Change, New Web Tool Finds
Biggest Impacts Seen in CT, DC, MA, MI, NJ, NY, NC, OH, PA, RI, VA, WV, CA and TX.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Residents of the northeastern United States, California and Texas experienced health-harming air pollution levels from 2002 through 2006, and projected climate change will worsen this pollution and its associated health problems, according to a new analysis of data by the Natural Resources Defense Council.
As much of the United States continues to suffer record hot summer weather, NRDC will hold a telephone-based news conference at 1 p.m. EDT/noon CDT/10 a.m. PDT on Wednesday, August 3, 2011 to release new, Web-based climate change impact maps and related analysis.
The analysis and related mapping on air pollution will focus on the following states: Connecticut, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Virginia, West Virginia, as well as Washington, D.C., California, and Texas.
WHO:
-- Kim Knowlton, senior scientist, Health and Environment Program, NRDC;
and
-- Perry Elizabeth Sheffield, MD, MPH; assistant professor, Department of
Pediatrics and Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New
York City.
WHEN:
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
TIME: 1 p.m. EDT/noon CDT/10 a.m. PDT
CALL-IN INFORMATION: Join the live, phone-based news conference (with full, two-way Q&A) at 1 p.m. EDT/noon CDT/10 a.m. PDT Wednesday, August 3, 2011, by dialing (800) 860-2442. Ask for the "NRDC climate impact maps" news event.
CAN'T PARTICIPATE?: A streaming audio replay of the news event will be available on the Web at http://www.nrdc.org as of 4 p.m. EDT/3 p.m. CDT/1 p.m. PDT on Wednesday, August 3, 2011.
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is an international nonprofit environmental organization with more than 1.3 million members and online activists. Since 1970, our lawyers, scientists, and other environmental specialists have worked to protect the world's natural resources, public health, and the environment. NRDC has offices in New York City, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Livingston, Montana, and Beijing. Visit us at http://www.nrdc.org.
Contact: Suzanne Struglinski, sstruglinski@nrdc.org, (202) 289-2387, and Leslie Anderson, landerson@hastingsgroup.com, (703) 276-3256.
/PRNewswire-USNewswire -- Aug. 2/
SOURCE Natural Resources Defense Council
Natural Resources Defense Council
Web Site: http://www.nrdc.org
Northeastern States, CA and TX See High Rates of Air Pollution, Projected to Worsen Due to Climate Change, New Web Tool Finds
Biggest Impacts Seen in CT, DC, MA, MI, NJ, NY, NC, OH, PA, RI, VA, WV, CA and TX.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Residents of the northeastern United States, California and Texas experienced health-harming air pollution levels from 2002 through 2006, and projected climate change will worsen this pollution and its associated health problems, according to a new analysis of data by the Natural Resources Defense Council.
As much of the United States continues to suffer record hot summer weather, NRDC will hold a telephone-based news conference at 1 p.m. EDT/noon CDT/10 a.m. PDT on Wednesday, August 3, 2011 to release new, Web-based climate change impact maps and related analysis.
The analysis and related mapping on air pollution will focus on the following states: Connecticut, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Virginia, West Virginia, as well as Washington, D.C., California, and Texas.
WHO:
-- Kim Knowlton, senior scientist, Health and Environment Program, NRDC;
and
-- Perry Elizabeth Sheffield, MD, MPH; assistant professor, Department of
Pediatrics and Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New
York City.
WHEN:
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
TIME: 1 p.m. EDT/noon CDT/10 a.m. PDT
CALL-IN INFORMATION: Join the live, phone-based news conference (with full, two-way Q&A) at 1 p.m. EDT/noon CDT/10 a.m. PDT Wednesday, August 3, 2011, by dialing (800) 860-2442. Ask for the "NRDC climate impact maps" news event.
CAN'T PARTICIPATE?: A streaming audio replay of the news event will be available on the Web at http://www.nrdc.org as of 4 p.m. EDT/3 p.m. CDT/1 p.m. PDT on Wednesday, August 3, 2011.
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is an international nonprofit environmental organization with more than 1.3 million members and online activists. Since 1970, our lawyers, scientists, and other environmental specialists have worked to protect the world's natural resources, public health, and the environment. NRDC has offices in New York City, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Livingston, Montana, and Beijing. Visit us at http://www.nrdc.org.
Contact: Suzanne Struglinski, sstruglinski@nrdc.org, (202) 289-2387, and Leslie Anderson, landerson@hastingsgroup.com, (703) 276-3256.
/PRNewswire-USNewswire -- Aug. 2/
SOURCE Natural Resources Defense Council
Natural Resources Defense Council
Web Site: http://www.nrdc.org