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The President’s Task Force on Environmental Health Risks and Safety Risks to Children is the focal point for coordinating federal government efforts to explore, understand, and act together to improve children’s environmental health and safety.

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Focus Areas

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Asthma Disparities

The Task Force works to address preventable environmental factors that lead to differences in the burden of asthma for poor and minority children relative to their peers.

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Chemical Exposures

The Task Force promotes understanding and predicting disease and disabilities in children across their life stages that result from exposure to chemicals and metals, including pesticides, manufacturing ingredients, lead, and others, is a focus of the Task Force.

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Climate, Emergencies, and Disasters

The Task Force seeks to identify key strategies to understand and address climate change impacts on children's health and safety and to inform federal agencies and others engaged in climate change mitigation, adaptation, and response.

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Lead Exposures

The Task Force coordinates interagency efforts to better understand and prevent disease and disabilities in children from lead, including development of a new federal lead strategy.