BOSTON (SHNS) - Environmental advocates and public health experts pressed lawmakers Wednesday to support proposals strengthening the state's network of air quality monitors that can track additional contaminants, with the aim of helping communities disproportionately impacted by pollution and worse health outcomes.

The Public Health Committee sent a similar bill tackling indoor air pollution and indoor mold in schools (S 1546) to the Senate Ways and Means Committee last week, pointed out Paulina Muratore, the Conservation Law Foundation's director of transportation justice and infrastructure.

The panel on Wednesday heard about counterpart measures from Reps. Christine Barber and Mike Connolly and Sen. Pat Jehlen (H 2369 / S 1548) to establish a technical advisory committee tasked with id

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