Our Mission
Downwinders at Risk Education Fund is dedicated to taking effective action on behalf of those being harmed by air pollution. Our goal is to build a strong grassroots constituency and create new strategies for clean air in North Texas. We do this by informing, connecting, and mobilizing citizens to become active participants in the decision-making that affects the air we breathe. In doing so, we improve both the quality of our air and the quality of our democracy.
We’re committed to working for environmental justice with communities impacted by the worst pollution; to deliver the best science to those communities; to making decisions about pollution and polluters more democratic; to providing solutions to the problems we spotlight, and to funding staff devoted to grassroots empowerment.
We support COMMUNITY SCIENCE, COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT and are a COMMUNITY WATCHDOG.
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I took a ride in UPS’s first all electric semi truck
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UPS has taken delivery of it’s first all-electric semi truck, the eCascadia Freightliner. It’s now in operation at the company’s Compton facility. It might not be a Tesla, but acc...www.ehn.org
“Places with high levels of air pollution would still have higher cancer rates even if smoking was eliminated.”Republicans erase 'environmental justice' from documents
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House Energy and Commerce Democrats are asking what happened to the phrase "environmental justice" that had been on subcommittee jurisdiction descriptions.bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com
Background Long-term exposure to air pollution has been associated with the onset and progression of kidney diseases, but the association between short-term exposure to air pollution and mortality of ...Study reveals links between UK air pollution and mental ill-health
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Researchers find long-term exposure to even relatively low levels raises risk of depression and anxiety