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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">almost half of Americans are living in places with unhealthy air? That’s the conclusion of the </span><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://desmogblog.cmail19.com/t/t-l-pldjdld-mgoiuir-t/" style="line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in 0s;"><span style="line-height: inherit;">latest report from the American Lung Association</span></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, which also lays out the public health implications of the Trump administration’s environmental rollback</span></font></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/air-pollution-cardiac-arrests-2644941669.html?"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.ecowatch.com/air-pollution-cardiac-arrests-2644941669.html</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Researchers now say there is "no safe level" of air pollution exposure after a large-scale study found a correlation between exposure to fine particle matter, known as PM2.5, and cardiac arrests</b>, according to the <a href="https://www.smh.com.au/national/no-safe-level-study-links-pm2-5-pollution-to-increased-risk-of-cardiac-arrest-20200128-p53v98.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_national" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">The Sydney Morning Herald</a>.</font></p><div class="rebellt-item col1" data-basename="particle-1" data-href="https://www.ecowatch.com/air-pollution-cardiac-arrests-2644941669.html?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1" data-id="1" data-is-image="False" data-reload-ads="false" id="rebelltitem1"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The researchers found that exposure to PM2.5 that even fell below global standards was hazardous, suggesting that tighter regulations and cleaner energy is required, according to the <a href="https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(19)30262-1/fulltext" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">study</a>, which was published in the journal <a href="https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(19)30262-1/fulltext" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">Lancet Planetary Health</a>.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Scientists from the University of Sydney led the study, which analyzed air quality in Japan against 249,372 cases of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests. They concluded that even low-level exposure was associated with an increased risk of cardiac arrest for people over 65, as <a href="https://www.smh.com.au/national/no-safe-level-study-links-pm2-5-pollution-to-increased-risk-of-cardiac-arrest-20200128-p53v98.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_national" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">The Sydney Morning Herald</a> reported.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">The researchers noticed that the risk of cardiac arrest grew by up to 4 percent for every increase of 10 units in the PM2.5 levels.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /></div><div class="rebellt-item col1" data-basename="particle-2" data-href="https://www.ecowatch.com/air-pollution-cardiac-arrests-2644941669.html?rebelltitem=2#rebelltitem2" data-id="2" data-is-image="False" data-reload-ads="false" id="rebelltitem2" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p /><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>"Our study supports recent evidence that there is no safe level of air pollution — finding an increased risk of cardiac arrest despite air quality generally meeting the standards," </b>said report author professor Kazuaki Negishi from the <a href="https://sydney.edu.au/medicine-health/schools/sydney-medical-school.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">University of Sydney School of Medicine</a>, as <a href="https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6602410/new-study-outlines-health-risks-of-even-short-exposure-to-pm25-air-pollution/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">The Canberra Times</a> reported.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Negishi pointed out that previous research into air pollution and acute cardiac events had been inconsistent, particularly at PM2.5 levels that met the World Health Organization guidelines. However, the large scale of this study meant that past inconsistencies could be addressed.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is a major medical emergency – with less than one in 10 people worldwide surviving these events – and there has been increasing evidence of an association with the more acute air pollution, or fine particulate matter such as PM2.5," said Negishi in a University of Sydney <a href="https://sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2020/01/28/air-pollution-impacts-can-be-heart-stopping-lancet-paper-finds.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">statement</a>. "We analyzed almost a quarter of a million cases of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests and found a clear link with acute air pollution levels."</font></p><p /></div><div class="rebellt-item col1" data-basename="particle-3" data-href="https://www.ecowatch.com/air-pollution-cardiac-arrests-2644941669.html?rebelltitem=3#rebelltitem3" data-id="3" data-is-image="False" data-reload-ads="false" id="rebelltitem3" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p /><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The findings are troubling for Australia, which has seen its usually pristine air plummet in quality due to the recent <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/wildfires" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">bushfires</a>. </b>In the study, more than 90 per cent of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests occurred at levels below the Australian standard of 25 micrograms per cubic meter. Put another way, the air quality levels ranked as "fair," "good" or "very good" under Australian standards, as the <a href="https://www.smh.com.au/national/no-safe-level-study-links-pm2-5-pollution-to-increased-risk-of-cardiac-arrest-20200128-p53v98.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_national" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">The Sydney Morning Herald</a> reported. The U.S. and Japanese standard is less strict at 35 micrograms per cubic meter.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Australia had a particularly awful year, with air quality in Canberra ranking as the worst in the world on Dec. 31. Sydney had 81 days of hazardous, very poor or poor air quality in 2019, which was more days of bad air than the last decade combined, according to <a href="https://www.smh.com.au/national/no-safe-level-study-links-pm2-5-pollution-to-increased-risk-of-cardiac-arrest-20200128-p53v98.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_national" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">The Sydney Morning Herald</a>.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The researchers expect the worsening air quality will lead to more heart attack fatalities in Australia, especially among older people.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Given the fact that there is a tendency towards worsening air pollution – from increasing numbers of cars as well as disasters such as bushfires – the impacts on cardiovascular events, in addition to respiratory diseases and lung cancer – must be taken into account in health care responses," said Negishi in a university <a href="https://sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2020/01/28/air-pollution-impacts-can-be-heart-stopping-lancet-paper-finds.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">statement</a>.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Unfortunately, the researchers did not identify a threshold that is safe for exposure to PM2.5. 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</b></div><div>It seems that every day scientists discover more about the dangers of air pollution. It is well known that it causes heart and lung disease, but studies this year have linked it to dementia and found soot particles in placenta. Most recently, a study published in the Journal of Investigative Medicine found a connection between particulate matter and mouth cancer risk.</div><div><b>
</b></div><div><b>But the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) doesn't seem to be paying attention. The agency, under the direction of former coal lobbyist Andrew Wheeler, is moving to disband a panel of scientists that advise the agency on setting safe levels of particulate matter pollution, The New York Times reported Wednesday.</b></div><div>
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</div><div>An EPA official confirmed to The New York Times that the 20-person Particulate Matter Review Panel, which advises the agency on setting safe levels of the microscopic pollutants, was not listed as continuing to meet next year.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"To me this is part of a pattern," Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) Research Director Gretchen Goldman told The New York Times. "We're seeing EPA trying to cut science out of the process."</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>Goldman cited recent agency decisions such as nixing the senior science advisor position and issuing a proposal that would limit the types of scientific studies the EPA can use to make decisions. In the case of particulate matter, this could have deadly consequences</b>, as Goldman explained in a Twitter thread about the decision.</div><div>
</div><div>"The end result here could be a weaker particulate standard, not based on science and not protective of public health. PM is responsible for thousands of premature deaths annually in the US. A weaker standard does not help," she wrote.</div><div>
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</div><div>In a separate blog post, Goldman explained more of the nuances of the EPA's most recent polluter-friendly move.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The U.S. has succeeded in reducing deadly particulate matter pollution because of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS), which are reviewed every five years with the help of scientific experts. The teams working on those reviews include the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) and the separate pollution review panels.</span></div><div>
</div><div>Goldman explained why both are essential:</div><div>
</div><div>These review panels are comprised of experts on the pollutant under review specifically, allowing the agency to benefit from subject matter expertise. For example, CASAC will include folks with air pollution modeling or monitoring expertise and epidemiologists, but the PM review panel might include experts on the toxicology of particulates or an expert on particulate measurement error. This is especially important because CASAC is small (seven people). No matter how expert, it would not be possible for this group to have working expertise of all elements of the relationship between a pollutant and health AND have that knowledge for all six criteria pollutants under CASAC's purview. As a result, EPA decisions on pollution standards can benefit from scientific expertise on all facets of the science on particulates and health.</div><div>But in a Wednesday news release, Wheeler announced that he would add five people to CASAC and task that group with revising particulate matter and ozone standards, with no mention of the separate advisory panels.</div><div><b>
</b></div><div><b>Goldman speculated that the Trump administration was attempting to fast-track the air quality standards review process in order to set new standards before the end of its time in office. That would be a boon to polluting industries at the expense of America's lungs.</b></div></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div></div><div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ref</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://www.lung.org/local-content/california/documents/sota-2017_ca-overview.pdf</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b> State of the Air 2017</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">finds that California remains home to some of the worst air pollution in the country,</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">affecting the health of millions of Californians. The Los Angeles, Bakersfield and Visalia metropolitan areas</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">top the list of the most polluted in the country for ozone pollution and particle pollution, with many other</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">California cities among the Top 10 polluted areas.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">2. Statewide, over 35 million Californians (91%) live in counties affected by unhealthy air during the year.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Almost 17 million Californians live in counties that received three failing grades in State of the Air 2017. At</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">risk populations include children, seniors, those with asthma, COPD, lung cancer, heart disease, diabetes,</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">and disadvantaged communities.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">3. There is good news in the 2017 report. Despite remaining challenges, the Federal Clean Air Act and state</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">and local clean air policies are driving steady progress in the fight for clean air, and a number of cities have</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">had their cleanest year yet. Eight cities that saw their lowest ozone averages in any report, including Los</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Angeles, Bakersfield, Visalia and Sacramento.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">4. The air is cleaner today because of the Federal Clean Air Act, California’s groundbreaking clean air and</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">clean energy laws, and local air pollution control programs. California must continue to ramp up</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">investments in zero emission vehicles including electricity and hydrogen, zero emission freight, renewable</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">power, non-polluting residential heating, and more sustainable community planning to reduce air pollution.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">5. State of the Air annually highlights the real public health crisis caused by air pollution. Millions of</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">California residents live in polluted areas and are at increased risk for health emergencies. Air pollution can</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">cause asthma attacks and other lung diseases, send people to hospitals and emergency rooms, and even</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">slow the development of children’s lungs.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>6. Climate change is impacting California’s fight for healthy air. Climate impacts include warming</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>temperatures, droughts, heat waves and wildfires which can all create conditions for poor air quality and</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>have devastating impacts on lung health</b>. While California experienced a wet winter this year, the report</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">continues to demonstrate the impacts of <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">drought weather conditions slowing progress in reducing particle</span></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">pollution </span>in the San Joaquin Valley over the past few years. Without continued actions at the local, state,</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">federal and global levels, extreme weather events will become the new normal for California.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">7. San Joaquin Valley residents continue to face significant air pollution challenges. The San Joaquin Valley</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">is home to the four the most particle-polluted cities in the United States, and has seen significant challenges</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">in reducing particle pollution. Additionally, despite more steady progress on ozone, residents in three Valley</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">counties face more than 90 unhealthy ozone days per year.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">8. All communities deserve healthy air. Many California communities face higher exposures and health risks</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">due to their proximity to freeways, refineries, rail yards, ports, freight corridors and other local soot</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">pollution sources. The Lung Association supports stronger regulations and targeted investments to ensure</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">that all Californians can breathe healthy air where they live, work or go to school.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">10. Everyone can make a difference for clean air. Making decisions to drive less, carpool, walk or bike where</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">possible, switch to electric transportation instead of gasoline cars, avoid wood burning and use less energy</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">all contribute to cleaner air.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></font></font></font></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></div><div><div style="line-height: 22.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Over the last ten years EPA has awarded nearly $3 billion in grants to nonprofit</font></font></font></font></div><div style="line-height: 22.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman">organizations.185 Based on a Committee review of the EPA grants database, the Obama EPA has</font></font></font></div><div style="line-height: 22.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman">given more than $27 million in taxpayer funded grants to major environmental groups. Notably,</font></font></font></div><div style="line-height: 22.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman">NRDC and EDF - two key activists groups with significant ties to senior EPA officials – have</font></font></font></div><div style="line-height: 22.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman">collected more than $1 million in funding each.</font></font></font></div><div style="line-height: 22.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div style="line-height: 22.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>EPA’s Top Five Environmental Nonprofit Grantees</b></font></font></font></font></div><div style="line-height: 22.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Grantee Number of Grants 2009-2014 Awards:</b></font></font></font></font></div><div style="line-height: 22.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>
</b></font></font></font></font></div><div style="line-height: 22.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman">ALA* 36 $13,970,196</font></font></font></div><div style="line-height: 22.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman">EDF 2 $1,099,839</font></font></font></div><div style="line-height: 22.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman">NRDC 2 $1,877,907</font></font></font></div><div style="line-height: 22.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman">NWF* 2 $64,734</font></font></font></div><div style="line-height: 22.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman">Nature Conservancy* 24 $10,700,796</font></font></font></div><div style="line-height: 22.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman">TOTAL 66 $27,713,472</font></font></font></div><div style="line-height: 22.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 1.25; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Louisiana Senator David Vitter </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">made headlines with conservative websites in the last few days by releasing a report called </span><a href="http://www.epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Files.View&FileStore_id=8af3d005-1337-4bc3-bcd6-be947c523439" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Chain of Environmental Command</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">: How a Club of Billionaires and Their Foundations Control the Environmental Movement and Obama’s EPA.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 1.25; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Below the lengthy title is a <a href="http://www.epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Files.View&FileStore_id=8af3d005-1337-4bc3-bcd6-be947c523439" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">report</a> that claims breathlessly that environmental and public health foundations are part of a cabal of “a close knit network of likeminded funders, environmental activists, and government bureaucrats” responsible for spreading “bogus propaganda disguised as science and news to spread an anti-fossil energy message to the unknowing public.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 1.25; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The report goes on to list groups such as the </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">American Lung Association and the Union of Concerned Scientists </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">as “agenda-driven far-left elites” obsessed with using “secretive backroom deals and transfers” to hide their agenda from the public. To shine a light on these organizations, the Vitter report details annual budget numbers and board membership lists scrubbed from annual tax forms that these nonprofits, like any nonprofit, are required to publish.</span></font></p><span style="line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">- See more at:<a href=" http://www.republicreport.org/2014/senator-vitter-report-claims-cancer-prevention-wildlife-nonprofits-are-part-of-nefarious-cabal/#sthash.BowZESWq.dpuf"> http://www.republicreport.org/2014/senator-vitter-report-claims-cancer-prevention-wildlife-nonprofits-are-part-of-nefarious-cabal/#sthash.BowZESWq.dpuf</a></font></span></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Air_pollution_from_coal-fired_power_plants</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="2011_American_Lung_Association_report_on_health_effects">2011 American Lung Association report on health effects</span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In March 2011, the American Lung Association released the report, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.lungusa.org/assets/documents/healthy-air/toxic-air-report.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 16px; background: url("http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif") 100% 50% no-repeat;">"Toxic Air: The Case for Cleaning Up Coal-fired Power Plants,"</a> on the hazardous air pollutants emitted from power plants. Key findings from the report included:</font></p><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A"); line-height: 22.4px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Coal-fired power plants produce more hazardous air pollution in the United States than any other industrial pollution sources;</span></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">More than 400 coal-fired power plants located in 46 states across the country release in excess of 386,000 tons of hazardous air pollutants into the atmosphere each year;</span></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Particulate_matter" title="Particulate matter" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Particulate matter</a> pollution from power plants is estimated to kill approximately 13,000 people a year.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Most coal-fired plants are concentrated in the Midwest and Southeast.</span></font></li></ul></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">srcwtch stub</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The <b>American Lung Association</b> (ALA) is a voluntary nonprofit health organization originally founded in 1904 to fight tuberculosis. As education, prevention and improvements in medical treatment caused tuberculosis to wane as a problem nationally, ALA broadened its mission to fighting lung disease and promoting lung health in general, with emphases on asthma, tobacco control and environmental health issues like clean indoor and outdoor air.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The American Lung Association has long been a foe of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Tobacco_industry" title="Tobacco industry" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">tobacco industry</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The American Lung Association filed an amicus curiae brief in the Forester MN suit.</font></p><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Contact_Information">Contact Information</span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">National Headquarters mailing address:</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The American Lung Association
61 Broadway, 6th Floor
NY, NY 10006
(212) 315-8700
</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">To reach a local Lung Association office: 1-800-LUNG USA</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.lungusa.org/" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%2210%22%20height%3D%2210%22%3E%3Cg%20transform%3D%22translate%28-826.429%20-698.791%29%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%225.982%22%20height%3D%225.982%22%20x%3D%22826.929%22%20y%3D%22702.309%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%20stroke%3D%22%2306c%22%2F%3E%3Cg%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M831.194%20698.791h5.234v5.391l-1.571%201.545-1.31-1.31-2.725%202.725-2.689-2.689%202.808-2.808-1.311-1.311z%22%20fill%3D%22%2306f%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M835.424%20699.795l.022%204.885-1.817-1.817-2.881%202.881-1.228-1.228%202.881-2.881-1.851-1.851z%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E") 100% 50%;">American Lung Association Web site</a></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">---</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">American Lung Association of Colorado</span><br style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">5600 Greenwood Plaza Blvd.</span><br style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Greenwood Village, CO 80111</span><br style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Phone: (303) 388-4327</span><br style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Fax: (303) 377-1102</span><br style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Web site: </span><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.lungcolorado.org/" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; line-height: 22.4px; background-image: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url("data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%2210%22%20height%3D%2210%22%3E%3Cg%20transform%3D%22translate%28-826.429%20-698.791%29%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%225.982%22%20height%3D%225.982%22%20x%3D%22826.929%22%20y%3D%22702.309%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%20stroke%3D%22%2306c%22%2F%3E%3Cg%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M831.194%20698.791h5.234v5.391l-1.571%201.545-1.31-1.31-2.725%202.725-2.689-2.689%202.808-2.808-1.311-1.311z%22%20fill%3D%22%2306f%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M835.424%20699.795l.022%204.885-1.817-1.817-2.881%202.881-1.228-1.228%202.881-2.881-1.851-1.851z%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E"); background-position: 100% 50%, 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat, repeat;">http://www.lungcolorado.org/</a></font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">wiki</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The <b>American Lung Association</b> is a voluntary health organization whose mission is to save lives by improving lung health and preventing lung disease through education, advocacy and research.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; display: inline-block;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Lung_Association#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; display: inline; line-height: 1.3; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Contents</font></h2><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> <span class="toctoggle" style="user-select: none;"> [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Lung_Association#" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">hide</a>] </span></font></div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Lung_Association#History" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">History</span></a></font></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Lung_Association#Logo" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Logo</span></a></font></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Lung_Association#Funding" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Funding</span></a></font></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Lung_Association#Notable_participants" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Notable participants</span></a></font></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Lung_Association#References" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></font></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Lung_Association#External_links" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></a></font></li></ul></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="History">History</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=American_Lung_Association&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The organization was founded in 1904 to fight <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuberculosis" title="Tuberculosis" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">tuberculosis</a></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> as the </span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> by </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Livingston_Trudeau" title="Edward Livingston Trudeau" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Edward Livingston Trudeau</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, Robert Hall Babcock, Henry Martyn Hall, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Flick" title="Lawrence Flick" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Lawrence Flick</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigard_Adolphus_Knopf" title="Sigard Adolphus Knopf" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">S. Adolphus Knopf</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. Earlier in 1892 Flick had founded the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Tuberculosis, the world's first society dedicated to the prevention of TB. NASPT was Renamed the </span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">National Tuberculosis Association</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> (NTA) in 1918, and then the </span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">National Tuberculosis and Respiratory Disease Association</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> (NTRDA) in 1968, it adopted its current name in 1973. Taglines included, "It's a matter of life and breath," "When you can't breathe, nothing else matters" and currently, "Fighting for Air"</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In 1907, the Lung Association began their <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_Seals" title="Christmas Seals" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Christmas Seal</a> campaign to raise money for a small TB sanatorium in Delaware. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Bissell" title="Emily Bissell" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Emily Bissell</a>, a Red Cross volunteer at the time, created holiday seals to sell at the post office for a penny a piece. By the end of her fundraising campaign, she had raised more than ten times the amount needed to save the sanatorium and the tradition of Christmas Seals was born<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; display: inline-block;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Lung_Association#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Association is a defender of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_Air_Act(United_States)" title="Clean Air Act (United States)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Clean Air Act</a> <sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; display: inline-block;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Lung_Association#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[3]</a></sup></span></font></p><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Logo">Logo</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=American_Lung_Association&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Logo" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">A modified version of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_of_Lorraine" title="Cross of Lorraine" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Cross of Lorraine</a> serves as the Lung Association's logo. The Paris, France, physician Gilbert Sersiron suggested its use in 1902 as a symbol for the "crusade" against tuberculosis. The double barred cross was originally used in the coat of arms of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godfrey_of_Bouillon" title="Godfrey of Bouillon" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Godfrey of Bouillon</a>, Duke of Lower Lorraine, a leader of the first crusade and elected ruler of Jerusalem after its capture in 1099.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; display: inline-block;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Lung_Association#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[4]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; display: inline-block;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Lung_Association#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[5]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Funding">Funding</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=American_Lung_Association&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Funding" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The American Lung Association is a public health organization funded by contributions from individual donors, corporations, foundations and government agency grants. Detailed financial statements are available in their </span><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.lung.org/about-us/financials/" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background-image: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url("data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%2210%22%20height%3D%2210%22%3E%3Cg%20transform%3D%22translate%28-826.429%20-698.791%29%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%225.982%22%20height%3D%225.982%22%20x%3D%22826.929%22%20y%3D%22702.309%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%20stroke%3D%22%2306c%22%2F%3E%3Cg%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M831.194%20698.791h5.234v5.391l-1.571%201.545-1.31-1.31-2.725%202.725-2.689-2.689%202.808-2.808-1.311-1.311z%22%20fill%3D%22%2306f%22%2F%3E%3Cpath%20d%3D%22M835.424%20699.795l.022%204.885-1.817-1.817-2.881%202.881-1.228-1.228%202.881-2.881-1.851-1.851z%22%20fill%3D%22%23fff%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fg%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E"); background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%, 100% 50%;">Annual Report</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> which is made public online every year. One of its best-known </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundraising" title="Fundraising" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">fund-raising campaigns</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> is its</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_Seal" title="Christmas Seal" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Christmas Seals</a> program</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, which has been an annual fundraising and public awareness tool for tuberculosis and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lung_disease" title="Lung disease" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">lung disease</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> since 1907.</span></font></p><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Notable_participants">Notable participants</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=American_Lung_Association&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Notable participants" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> held their ninth annual meeting in Washington D.C., May 8 and 9, 1913. In attendance were Association President Homer Folks, Honorary Vice President </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt" title="Theodore Roosevelt" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Theodore Roosevelt</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, Vice Presidents Robert Hall Babcock, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_William_Osler" title="Sir William Osler" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Sir William Osler</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and Edward R. Baldwin, Treasurer William H. Baldwin, Secretary Henry Barton Jacobs. Notable life members included </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Carnegie" title="Andrew Carnegie" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Andrew Carnegie</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_C.Frick" title="Henry C. Frick" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Henry C. Frick</a>, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mrs. H. Knickerbocker, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Marshall" title="Louis Marshall" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Louis Marshall</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, Francis E. May, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrus_H.McCormick" title="Cyrus H. McCormick" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Cyrus H. McCormick</a>,</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Phipps,Jr." title="Henry Phipps, Jr." style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Henry Phipps</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D.Rockefeller" title="John D. Rockefeller" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">John D. Rockefeller</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodman_Wanamaker" title="Rodman Wanamaker" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Rodman Wanamaker</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_M.Warburg" title="Felix M. Warburg" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Felix M. Warburg</a>.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> The association members recommended a public health committee be formed by </span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and be officially sanctioned by the</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">United States House of Representatives</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. In addition, they adopted the double red cross emblem formally as the symbol for the association and its fight against </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuberculosis" title="Tuberculosis" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">tuberculosis</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. </span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> executive offices were located at 105 East 22nd Street, New York, New York.</span><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; display: inline-block; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Lung_Association#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Henry Martyn Hall of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh,PA" title="Pittsburgh, PA" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Pittsburgh, PA</a> is one of the ten original founders and was honored at the 50th Anniversary Annual Meeting of the<b>National Tuberculosis Association</b> at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_City,New_Jersey" title="Atlantic City, New Jersey" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Atlantic City</a>, New Jersey, in 1954.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; display: inline-block;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Lung_Association#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; 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Alberta Lung Association. 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F. Fell Company, Philadelphia, PA (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Press of WM. F. Fell Company, Philadelphia, PA</a></i>. 1913.</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="-webkit-user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Lung_Association#cite_ref-7" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up</span>^{</a></b></span> }<span class="reference-text"><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_Sun-Telegraph" title="Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph</a></i>. 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