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Air
Facility lighting, heating and cooling,
vehicle use and other NIH activities generate air emissions that contribute
to childhood asthma, lung cancer, heart disease and respiratory diseases.
The NIH has programs to reduce emissions from mobile
sources, like vehicles, and from stationary
sources, like the Bethesda campus' power plant.
The Division of Travel and Transportation
Services offers NIH employees alternatives to commuting singly in
individually-owned cars. Options include the Transhare Program, Ridefinders
Network, bike racks and campus shuttles. These commuting options help
ease traffic congestion, decrease pollution and reduce stress.
The NIH is working to reduce its use of gasoline engine equipment. The
NIH limits the idling of delivery trucks at loading docks. Its increased
use of natural gas to heat buildings at the Bethesda campus reduces power
plant emissions.
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