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Article: Clearing the air: a model for investigating indoor air quality in Texas Schools.(FEATURES)
- Article from:
- Journal of Environmental Health
- Article date:
- June 1, 2005
- Author:
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Introduction
This pilot project was developed to address indoor air quality (IAQ) at a local high school in Galveston, Texas. The authors sought to establish an indoor air quality program using guidelines from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (U.S. EPA's) Indoor Air Quality Tools for Schools program (U.S. EPA, 1995) and to validate this program through air quality testing with methods similar to those used by a study of a series of California schools (Spielman, 2000). The Tools for Schools program, developed for evaluating schools and ensuring healthy and acceptable air quality for students and staff, takes a low-cost, minimal-involvement approach based ...