Environmental Tips from the EPA

Environmental Tips from the EPA

ENVIRO-TIP OF THE MONTH

Test your home for radon. Radon is an invisible radioactive gas that causes lung cancer. Testing is the only way you can know if your home contains high radon levels. Test, Fix, and Save a Life - January is National Radon Action Month.
http://www.epa.gov/radon/radontest.html

WHAT YOU CAN DO, WHAT YOU CAN USE

Welcome MATS - learn more about how the new Mercury and Air Toxics Standards will help protect health for you and your children. By cutting air pollution from power plants, MATS is expected to avert hundreds of thousands of premature deaths, heart attacks, and asthma attacks every year.
http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/names/hq_2011-12-21_Mercury

Green after the Holidays! It's always the right time to give a gift to the environment and it's easy!
-Pick 5 for your New Years Resolution! Healthy resolutions easily partner with helping the environment. Get Inspired. Get involved. Decide to act, share, and maintain.
http://www.epa.gov/pick5/

-save energy and recycle more at holiday parties and other activities.
http://www.epa.gov/osw/wycd/funfacts/holidays.htm

-got new toys? eCycle your old cell phone, computer, or TV!
http://www.epa.gov/osw/partnerships/plugin

-the tree might not be green anymore but you can recycle it in environmentally friendly ways!
http://www.epa.gov/epawaste/inforesources/news/2003news/12-trees.htm