{"id":19445,"date":"2013-11-14T14:24:26","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T19:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=19445"},"modified":"2013-11-14T14:25:20","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T19:25:20","slug":"letter-join-the-fight-for-clean-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=19445","title":{"rendered":"Letter: Join the fight for clean air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>To The Editor,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Letters1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-652875\" style=\"margin: 4px;\" alt=\"Letters1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Letters1.jpg\" width=\"140\" height=\"98\" \/><\/a>The World Health Organization recently labeled outdoor air pollution as carcinogenic, thereby confirming something I\u2019ve always believed\u2026 air pollution contributes to lung disease. Now as I watch my children play outside, I have to wonder\u2026 How clean is the air they are breathing?\u00a0 And, as scary as it is, I\u2019m afraid I know the answer\u2026 not very.<\/p>\n<p>My mother suffers from COPD, and a slight change in the weather has a tremendous impact on her ability to breathe.\u00a0 That is because temperature changes stir up particle matter in the ozone.\u00a0 My mother has to stay inside until her lungs can adjust to these changes.<\/p>\n<p>Some particle matter, like pollen, is a natural part of the air we breathe.\u00a0 But other particle matter, such as that caused by industrial burning, is anything but natural.\u00a0 It poisons our air and harms our lungs. And though we can\u2019t control pollen levels, we can work to limit air pollution.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Emissions from motor vehicles, factories and power generation plants pollute our air.\u00a0 I realize that cleaning our air is a monumental task. Large numbers of thoroughly committed people must work tirelessly to advocate for tighter restrictions on air pollution. But I also know that doing so is critical for our health and well-being and for our children\u2019s health and well-being. We shouldn\u2019t have to worry that we are putting our children\u2019s lungs at risk when we allow them to play outside.<\/p>\n<p>So as a mother and a daughter and a person who cares about this community, I ask you to consider supporting The American Lung Association in its fight for healthy air.\u00a0 We all have lungs, and we all have the right to fill them with clean, carcinogen-free air.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Hillary Spruance<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kennett Square<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To The Editor, The World Health Organization recently labeled outdoor air pollution as carcinogenic, thereby confirming something I\u2019ve always believed\u2026 air pollution contributes to lung disease. Now as I watch my children play outside, I have to wonder\u2026 How clean is the air they are breathing?\u00a0 And, as scary as it is, I\u2019m afraid I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[4479,4478,4477],"class_list":["post-19445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters","tag-air-pollution","tag-the-american-lung-association","tag-world-health-organization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}