Nancy Swan, Director of Children's EPA

After hearing about my toxic injury that resulted in severe asthma, Mayor Sam Jones proclaimed May is Asthma Awareness Month in the City of Mobile, Alabama on May 27, 2012.

Next year, Children's EPA will seek similar proclamations from Alabama Governor Robert Bentley, a physician, as well as proclamations by supportive governors of Tennessee, Mississippi and encourage proclamations by the remaining five states in EPA Region 4.

Children's Environmental Protection Alliance (Children's EPA), along with its state chairpersons, has succeeded in securing twelve proclamations for National Healthy Schools Day which includes recognition that asthma sufferers need environmental and health protection. One of Children's EPA's missions is to educate the public, public officials, and community and business leaders to reduce environmental and chemical causes and triggers of asthma.

Children's EPA seeks and supports political action to provide legislation, oversight, funding, and enforcement to prevent environmental and chemical causes of asthma, provided asthma health care, and asthma education and awareness.

Children's EPA will post the above Proclamation by Mobile Mayor Sam Jones on its website, http://www.childrensepa.org and on its blog, http://childrensepa.blogspot.com/