U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 announced today that it is now monitoring at all 15 schools in the region that were selected as part of EPA's national Schools Air Toxics Initiative.
The initiative, which is monitoring 63 schools in 22 states, is designed to help EPA and the states determine whether long-term exposure to toxics in the outdoor air poses health concerns for children and staff at the schools. Read more via glrppr.org
EPA Region 5 also announced that first sets of air toxics monitoring data from three schools in the region have been posted on the agency's Web site. The schools are: Lincoln Park Elementary School, Muskegon, Mich.; Minnesota International Middle Charter School, Minneapolis, Minn.; and Whitwell Elementary School, Ironton, Ohio. The data is posted at http://www.epa.gov/schoolair/schools.html.