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This resolution recognizes that air pollution and extreme heat pose significant threats to the health of pregnant individuals and infants, particularly within Latino communities, which face unique vulnerabilities due to factors like higher exposure to polluted areas, disproportionate representation in outdoor workforces, and systemic inequalities in healthcare access and treatment. The House of Representatives expresses its sense that rapid and equitable development and deployment of interventions are necessary, supporting measures such as providing place-based information in English and Spanish about pregnancy vulnerabilities and actionable steps to reduce exposure, installing air quality monitors in Latino communities, issuing bilingual public alerts for air quality and heat, educating healthcare professionals and educators on these risks, improving guidelines at community centers and healthcare facilities, supporting mutual aid networks and community resilience programs, increasing affordability and access to air conditioning and air purifiers, expanding access to cooling centers and hydration stations, creating more shaded and green spaces in low-income neighborhoods, enforcing better working conditions for outdoor laborers including pregnant women, increasing access to Latina doulas, and supporting community-based research to better understand and address these risks.

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https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-resolution/1017/all-info