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Air Quality
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Toxins & Chemicals
Healthy Homes
100

This invisible gas is the primary cause of climate change and is released when fossil fuels are burned.

Carbon Dioxide

100
The system that removes waste and treats water before it's released back into the environment.

Wastewater treatment plant

100

This is the term for the gradual increase in the Earth's average temperature.

Global Warming

100

This metal, once common in paint, can cause developmental delays in children.

Lead

100

Mold grows best in this kind of indoor environment.

Humid/Damp

200

The EPA's color-coded system that tells you how clean or polluted the air is.

Air Quality Index (AQI)
200

Lead contamination in drinking water is especially dangerous to this age group.

Children

200

The main gas produced by livestock that contributes to the greenhouse effect

Methane

200

These chemicals, used in nonstick cookware, are known as "forever chemicals"

PFA's

200

This invisible, radioactive gas can seep into homes and increase lung cancer risk.

Radon

300
These tiny airborne particles can lodge deep in your lungs and cause respiratory problems. 

PM2.5 particles

300

This type of pollution occurs when harmful substances flow into rivers and lakes from rain runoff.

Nonpoint source pollution

300

This term describes intense weather events, like stronger hurricanes and longer droughts.

Extreme weather events
300

The term for any substance that can cause cancer.

Carcinogen

300

These household items can emit volatile organic compounds (VOCs)

Cleaning products

400

Ozone is good in the upper atmosphere, but harmful at ground level due to this condition.

Smog

400

The agency that regulates safe drinking water in the U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
400

This global agreement aims to limit the increase in global temperature to below 2 degrees Celsius.

Paris Agreement

400

This former pesticide, banned in the U.S. still persists in the environment.

DDT

400

The term for materials that improve a buildings energy efficiency and indoor air quality.

Green building materials

500

This long-term lung disease is commonly worsened by air pollution.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)

500

This waterborne parasite can cause severe diarrhea and is often found in contaminated recreational water.

Cryptosporidium

500

Rising sea levels are largely due to melting glaciers and this other process.

Thermal expansion of ocean water

500
These compounds found in plastics can mimic hormones and disrupt endocrine systems.

Phthalates

500

Integrated Pest Management (IPM) focuses on this rather than chemical solutions. 

Environmentally friendly methods