The American Lung Association is pleased to share the Clean Air School Challenge report on state policies on indoor air quality (IAQ) in schools, A Win-Win for Lung Health: How Policies on Indoor Air Quality Make Schools Healthier and More Energy Efficient. This report summarizes the current landscape of IAQ policies across the country and provides clear, research-based recommendations that can guide educational conversations with partners who work in schools, public health, or environmental health and state government officials.

This resource can support strengthening awareness of school IAQ and helping state government officials and partners understand where opportunities exist for conversations about improving healthy learning environments. We invite you to watch a brief 2-minute overview and download the report to learn how state policies can support healthier and more energy-efficient learning environments.

Amid a changing climate and federal rollbacks to disaster relief and preparedness, early educators face an increasingly untenable child care landscape that will require state and local action. Young children and the people who care for them face particular challenges due to the historically underfunded early education system,5 affecting child health and safety as well as community recovery.

Tune in as we speak with Dr. Hailey Gibbs with the Center for American Progress about how policymakers at all levels of government, child and public health advocates, and other community members must act to ensure that children are protected, to strengthen the early learning workforce, and to rally public support for the early childhood system as critical infrastructure that can help protect children against the effects of climate change and aid broader community recovery from natural disasters.

Indoor air quality is a public health issue hiding in plain sight.

Tune in as we talk with Kendra Seymour, Vice-Chair & Co-Founder of Change the Air Foundation (501(c)(3)), about empowering families and schools to breathe safer indoor air through education, policy advocacy, and small-scale research.

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