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BOSTON On Earth Day, Attorney General Maura Healey joined local elected officials and community leaders in Springfield to launch a new collaborative air quality monitoring project to measure air pollution levels and provide data to inform public health responses in the city known as having the highest rates of asthma in the country.
Today’s announcement was made at an event in Adams Park in Springfield and is part of AG Healey’s work to prioritize protecting public health in environmental justice communities in Massachusetts. AG Healey also joined members of her Environmental Protection Division to plant trees – two Musashino Zelkova and three Heritage River Birch – in the park.
Holyoke City Council seeks solutions to reduce city’s high asthma rate
Updated Mar 11, 2021;
HOLYOKE The City Council’s Public Safety Committee, health and medical professionals continue a push to reduce the city’s asthma rate, one of the highest in Massachusetts and the nation.
The committee held a virtual session Wednesday chaired by Ward 2 City Councilor Terence Murphy, whose constituents, particularly children, experience higher than average asthma rates.
Murphy said the goal was to improve the air quality for residents who suffer from the condition. Asthma also affects the public schools’ chronic absentee figures. Murphy has held a series of meetings on the subject.