News Release: Friday: EPA Administrator to Visit Newark's New Community Air Pollution Project

CONTACTS: Mary Mears, (212-637-3673), mears.mary@epa.gov

                      Elias Rodriguez (212-637-3664), rodriguez.elias@epa.gov

March 11, 2015 

FRIDAY: EPA Administrator to Visit Newark’s

New Community Air Pollution Project

WASHINGTON – On Friday, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy will join community members at Newark, N.J.’s Ironbound neighborhood Family Success Center to launch a new community air monitor, a first of its kind citizen science project. Administrator McCarthy will discuss the agency’s work on air quality and how citizen science plays an important role in scientific analysis.

Twenty five percent of Newark children suffer from asthma, three times the state average, and asthma accounts for the leading cause of absenteeism for Newark’s school age children. Accurate and timely information on air pollution is critical to protecting public health. With data in hand, people can take action to keep themselves and their families safe and healthy.

WHO:              EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy

                        Senator Cory Booker

                        Isella Ramirez, Ironbound Community Corporation

WHEN:           Friday, March 13, 10:15 a.m. EDT

WHERE:         Newark’s Ironbound Community Corporation Family Success Center- East

29 Cortland Street, Newark, NJ 07105

RSVP:             Media interested in attending the event should RSVP to:

                        rodriguez.elias@epa.gov.

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