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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced initiatives in Lebanon, Erie, Warren and Crawford counties to make schools safer and healthier.
The Eastern Lebanon County School District has joined EPA's Indoor Air Quality Tools for Schools (TfS) program to improve indoor air quality problems in its buildings.
EPA Region 3 staff from Philadelphia will help address the problems through training, presentations and walk-through evaluations. EPA will also use the EPA Integrated Pest Management program that eliminates and discourages pests in buildings, using less toxics, chemical use and storage space.
EPA Region 3 is also promoting its Safer Schools Initiative in schools in and around Erie to help the schools safely dispose of excess laboratory chemicals. EPA will provide training in inventory reduction and waste minimization, and help school staff identify old and unused chemicals in school laboratories that present health and safety hazards.
Thirty-six schools in the tri-county area of Erie, Warren and Crawford Counties, are learning to inventory chemistry and science classrooms and to safely dispose of outdated and hazardous materials. Four schools chose to adopt the micro-scale chemistry educational option where much smaller quantities of materials are used in experiments.
For more information, visit EPA’s Children’s Health webpage.
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