Air Quality Awareness Week

May 6-10

The theme for this year is, “Knowing Your Air”. Air Quality Awareness Week (AQAW) highlights resources that increase air quality awareness and encourage people to act and incorporate air quality knowledge into their daily lives.

AQAW 2024 Daily Topics:

• Monday, May 6 - Wildland Fires and Smoke
• Tuesday, May 7 - Asthma and Your Health
• Wednesday, May 8 - Air Quality and Climate
• Thursday, May 9 - Air Quality and Environmental Justice
• Friday, May 10 - Air, Animals, and Plants 

From our colleagues, The Arizona Health Professionals for Climate Action (AzHPCA): as temperatures climb, the air quality starts to suffer too. This week has already seen high levels of Ozone from the warmer temperatures mixing with volatile organic compounds from the consumption of fossil fuels. 

Check the air quality on https://www.airnow.gov/ to view air quality levels.

What We Are Reading & Listening to This Week

• Gov. Hobbs signs historic water rights agreement with Colorado River Indian Tribes (Arizona’s Family, April 26)
• Arbor Day 2024: How to plant the best tree to combat climate change (ABC News, April 26)
• Connections between planetary and human health (Medical Care Blog, April 25)
• Scenes from a warming climate (MI Today, April 26)
• More than one-third of people in the US exposed to harmful air pollution-report (The Guardian, April 24)
• 10 years later, Flint’s and America’s water remains unnecessarily hazardous (The Hill, April 25)
• A Record A Day: Ocean temperatures rise at a rate that is alarming climate scientists ( Arizona Republic, April 29)
• Video: Climate Anxiety: What to do if you’re worried about climate change (AAP, April 17)
• Arizona gets $156.12 million grant from federal Solar For All Program on Earth Day (KTAR News, April 22)
• Joint Staff Report: Denial, Disinformation, and Doublespeak: Big Oil’s Evolving Efforts to Avoid Accountability for Climate Change (US Congress, April 2024)

Join Us

May 9^th 12:00 pm-1:00 pm (AZ) Nurses’ Roles to Address Climate Change: panel discussion during Nurses’ Week, sponsored by ANA and LinkedIn.

May 14^th 5:30 pm: May’s AzNA Climate Change & Health Workgroup Meeting

May 29^th: 12 pm-1 pm (AZ): A Discussion with Dr. Eugene Livar, Arizona's 1st Chief Heat Officer, about the Governor's Extreme Heat Preparedness Plan

Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89679461903?pwd=drcLOh0tEXZbqVnbJaNIjWKQdE1EJS.1

Meeting ID: 896 7946 1903
Passcode: 579314

June 12^th: 11 am-12 pm (AZ): Healthy People 2023 Webinar. Air Quality Matters: improving Health and Lung Function

Thank you for joining us in making a healthier planet today!