This report by EPA presents the major issue of how children’s health is directly impacted by the environment. This report lists the complex environmental threats that children face from asthma-inducing air pollution to toxic chemicals. It entails the Clinton Administration efforts to protect children from different environmental health threats through signing new laws that directly protect children from toxic chemicals, providing safe drinking water and issuing tough standards for industrial air pollution. Similarly, this report contains EPA’s National Agenda to Protect Children’s Health from Environmental Threats, where they call on national, state, and local policy makers to take action toward protecting children from environmental health threats.
United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), "Environmental Health Threats to Children [1996]", contributed by Karishma Kumari Khanal and Kim Fortun, Disaster STS Network, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 7 March 2022, accessed 29 November 2024. http://465538.bc062.asia/content/environmental-health-threats-children-1996
Critical Commentary
This report by EPA presents the major issue of how children’s health is directly impacted by the environment. This report lists the complex environmental threats that children face from asthma-inducing air pollution to toxic chemicals. It entails the Clinton Administration efforts to protect children from different environmental health threats through signing new laws that directly protect children from toxic chemicals, providing safe drinking water and issuing tough standards for industrial air pollution. Similarly, this report contains EPA’s National Agenda to Protect Children’s Health from Environmental Threats, where they call on national, state, and local policy makers to take action toward protecting children from environmental health threats.