Air pollution can be a major health threat, especially for at-risk populations and those with respiratory illness. This study will help us target improvements to clean the air, improve the environment and enhance public health.

The issues involved in controlling dangerous mercury pollution are complex. False and misleading information can have no place in the debate.

The information we gather by this one-year study will help us work with all facets of the Carlisle and Cumberland County communities to find ways to improve the quality of air we breath.

Our study is specific to the elderly, but there is epidemiological evidence that air pollution also affects the health of the younger population.

We have mounting scientific proof that cleaning up the source of air pollution results in cleaner air and less illness and death. A study recently released showed that when particle air pollution declines in a city, the death rates also drop in that city.

Current standards do not do enough to protect the public from serious health dangers associated with this form of pollution.