Keeping you healthy and strong is an integral part of EPA's misson, so we study how pollution affects the human body. EPA also works with many agenciesand citizen groups to monitor air and water quality. By knowing whats out there, we can reduce people's exposure to pollution. On this page, you can learn how pollution affects your body and how to reduce your exposure. You can also find out about volunteer monitoring efforts.

Asthma
Learn about asthma and upper respiratory illnesses.
www.epa.gov/iaq/asthma

Easy Breathers
Pollution emissions from transportation are a major ingredient in global warming, stratospheric ozone depletion, asthma, ground-level ozone (a.k.a., smog) formation and other problems. We're responsible for these emissions. The way we choose to get around today impacts our world tomorrow - the land, the water, and the air. A group of high school students, teachers, and a professional video crew got together to produce this site. So check it out, already!
http://www.easybreathers.org/

Environmental Health Science Education
Portal site for students, teachers and scientists on environmental health information, activities, jobs, and developmental opportunities.
www.niehs.nih.gov/science-education/

Health Effects of Secondhand Smoke
Secondhand smoke can cause health problems in children and adults. Read about the risks of environmental tobacco smoke and find links to research studies about the issue.
www.epa.gov/smokefree/healthrisks.html

National Institute of Environmental Health Science
This site from NIEHS provides information about a number of different environmental health and science topics, as well as environmental careers.
www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/hottopics.htm

A Citizen's Guide to Radon
The complete guide to taking action to lower the radon level in your home. It offers radon testing strategies and discussions of the steps to take after you have tested. You'll learn about the risks of radon as well as radon myths.
www.epa.gov/iaq/radon/pubs/citguide.html

AIRNOW
Get up-to-the-minute information about air pollution in your community. Includes maps, forecasts, and information about the health effects of air pollution.
www.epa.gov/airnow

Air Pollution, What's the Solution?
This site offers a comprehensive internet-based curriculum unit on ground level ozone. Projects use online real time data to guide your discovery of the causes and effects of ground level ozone.
www.k12science.org/curriculum/airproj/lessonscore1.html

Asthma Triggers/Secondhand Smoke
Learn about secondhand smoke (also called environmental tobacco smoke) and how it can cause asthma and other health problems.
www.epa.gov/iaq/asthma/triggers/shs.html

Ground Water Primer
This computer program presents the basic concepts of ground water, the contaminants that can affect water quality along with the risks they pose, activities that an individual or community can do to help protect and conserve ground water, and programs that are now in place to help protect ground water.
www.epa.gov/seahome/groundwater/src/ground.htm

Health Effects of Secondhand Smoke
Secondhand smoke can cause health problems in children and adults. Read about the risks of environmental tobacco smoke and find links to research studies about the issue.
www.epa.gov/smokefree/healthrisks.html

Indoor Air software
This downloadable program lets you tour a building to learn about the sources, health effects, and prevention of indoor air problems.
www.epa.gov/grtlakes/seahome/indoor.html

Lead Information Page
Find information from the National Lead Information Center, including pamphlets featuring general information about lead hazards and lead poisoning prevention in the home.
www.epa.gov/opptintr/lead/leadpbed.htm

Mercury
Information about mercury, its health effects, studies, and what you can do to reduce exposures to mercury.
www.epa.gov/mercury

Mercury in Schools
You'll find a clearinghouse for information on where mercury can be found in schools, mercury elimination and spill incident case studies, and educational materials on mercury and overall pollution prevention. From US EPA and the University of Wisconsin.
www.mercuryinschools.uwex.edu

National Institute of Environmental Health Science
This site from NIEHS provides information about a number of different environmental health and science topics, as well as environmental careers.
www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/hottopics.htm

Ozone: Good Up High, Bad Nearby
Ozone acts as a protective layer high above the Earth, but it can be harmful to breathe. This publication provides basic information about ground-level and high-altitude ozone.
www.epa.gov/oar/oaqps/gooduphigh

Radiation Protection
All about radiation: what it is, what it does, where to find it, and more!
www.epa.gov/radiation/students

The Inside Story
Questions about indoor air quality? This page provides basic facts about pollutants found inside our buildings and homes.
www.epa.gov/iaq/pubs/insidest.html

The Ultraviolet (UV) Index
Several publications explaining the Ultraviolet Index and steps you can take to minimize the risks from overexposure to the sun's rays. Each is available for reading online and downloading. You can also find the current UV index for your zip code.
www.epa.gov/sunwise/uvindex.html

Water on Tap: What You Need to Know
Where does your drinking water come from? How is it treated? How do you protect it? This is the place to get the answers to these and other drinking water questions.
www.epa.gov/OGWDW/wot/introtap.html

What is a Pesticide?
This page includes a definition of what a pesticide is as well as examples of common pesticides that can be found around the house.
www.epa.gov/pesticides/about

AIRNOW
Get up-to-the-minute information about air pollution in your community. Includes maps, forecasts, and information about the health effects of air pollution.
www.epa.gov/airnow/

Air Pollution, What's the Solution?
Explore EPA's internet sites on ground level ozone and discover the causes and effects of this air pollutant.
www.k12science.org/curriculum/airproj/lessonscore1.html

Healthy School Environments
A gateway to on-line resources to help facility managers, school administrators, architects, design engineers, school nurses, parents, teachers and staff address environmental health issues in schools.
cfpub.epa.gov/schools/index.cfm

Air Quality Status and Trends
This brochure highlights the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's most recent evaluation of status and trends in our nation's air quality. The data is from 1997, which is the most recent available.
www.epa.gov/oar/aqtrnd97/brochure

National Institute of Environmental Health Science
This site from NIEHS provides information about a number of different environmental health and science topics, as well as environmental careers.
www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/hottopics.htm

Smoke-Free Homes - Publications
Fact sheets, brochures, community action tool kits, and other EPA publications about the effects of secondhand smoke and what you can do to reduce these health risks.
www.epa.gov/smokefree/publications.html

The Plain English Guide to the Clean Air Act
A clearly written guide to the Federal law that helps protect the air we breathe.
www.epa.gov/oar/oaqps/peg_caa/pegcaain.html