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EPA Signs MOU with Georgia ATandT Pioneers to Promote Children’s Health

Release Date: 10/26/2010
Contact Information: Dawn Harris-Young, (404) 562-8421, [email protected]

(ATLANTA – Oct. 26, 2010) In celebration of Children’s Health Month, EPA Region 4 and the AT&T Pioneers Georgia Chapter of the TelecomPioneers, a Colorado nonprofit corporation, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to promote the awareness on environmental health hazards that affect children at home, school, and in their communities - the places where they live, learn and play.

Through this MOU, the AT&T Pioneers and EPA Region 4’s Children’s Environmental Health (CEH) program will build a cooperative working relationship in areas of mutual agreement during the 2010 and 2011 calendar years. The areas of cooperation covered by this MOU include, but are not limited to:

· Creation of an EPA/AT&T Pioneers partnership where the Pioneers will conduct and support children’s environmental health activities and programs.
· EPA will provide technical support for Pioneers’ environmental health initiatives.
· Provision of EPA experts and/or resources to support environmental health education and outreach activities which includes various training and educational programs.
· Partnership activities to include a Green Project, a light bulb distribution to Georgia communities (Light Up Georgia), a river clean-up activity (Rivers Alive), a children’s environmental health activity, and two other local environmental projects.