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A new report finds that while air quality is improving in many U.S. cities, 175 million people — more than half the population — are still living in areas where the air is often too dangerous to breathe.A new report finds that while air quality is improving in many U.S. cities, 175... more
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Claiming its Northwest chapter has gone rogue, the American Lung Association is dissolving the affiliate, which also includes the charity's Alaska branch.
The move leaves the fate of the longtime Lung Association chapter in Alaska unclear and raises questions about what happens to the millions of dollars it gets from the state.
"We're monitoring it very closely, but we don't know yet what the impact on the programs of Alaska will be," said Jay Butler, the state's chief medical officer.
The American Lung Association of Alaska has successfully pushed for higher cigarette taxes and smoking bans. It sponsors anti-smoking programs and holds summer camps for children with asthma.
But about two years ago, the Alaska branch was merged into the American Lung Association of the Northwest -- which includes Idaho and Washington state -- as part of a national push for consolidation, said George Stewart, an advisory board member for the Alaska arm.
Now, the regional chapter is in hot water with its mother charity, which told The Associated Press that it has sent the regional group a cease-and-desist letter.
Here's what the dispute is about:
The regional affiliate, headquartered in Seattle, is accused of selling its $3.2 million building there without permission from the national organization.
The buyer? A separate corporation set up by the affiliate's chief executive, Mike Alderson.
The price? $10.
That corporation then charged the regional affiliate $600,000 for five years rent in the building, Alderson said in a deposition.
The American Lung Association's Washington branch owned the building before the merger with Alaska and Idaho. Real estate records show it sold the building in August to something called the Pacific Northwest Lung Cancer Foundation, created by Alderson.
What's this Outside infighting got to do with Alaska?
The state delivered about $1.9 million from its share of tobacco settlement money to the association last year, that is, to the Northwest affiliate.Claiming its Northwest chapter has gone rogue, the American Lung Association is... more
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Although the America Lung Association of New York has succeeded in stamping out cigarette smoking in college dorms, the clean air junkies aren't stopping there and are now jockeying for a 'curb to curb' ban on smokeable tobacco for every college/university state wide. As of right now, there's 14 campuses that are entirely smokefree and only 5 holdouts that still sell tobacco products: Bard College, Culinary Institute of America, Iona College, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, SUNY Fredonia, and SUNY Potsdam.Although the America Lung Association of New York has succeeded in stamping out... more
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Satisfactory? It really depends where you live. One block from traffic can make a lots of difference. I really want to know how local News TV keep pulling this one for Years. Now with you it is the weather and traffic. Air quality in the San Francisco Bay Area, satisfactory???
Satisfactory? It really depends where you live. One block from traffic can make a lots... more
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The American Lung Association issued its annual report card on air pollution today, ranking cities most affected by three types of pollution: short-term particle pollution, year-round particle pollution and ozone pollution.
Find out how clean the air that you're breathing is, as well as if your city ranks among the highest polluted cities in the U.S.The American Lung Association issued its annual report card on air pollution today,... more
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The American Lung Association's annual report card rates air quality on three major measures: smog, sooty air days, and annual levels of particle pollutionThe American Lung Association's annual report card rates air quality on three... more
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