NB Lung | Poumon NB
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Your provincial lung health charity, fighting for respiratory health and clean air since 1933.
Visit our website to order free KN95 masks 😷❤️
Visit our website to order free KN95 masks 😷❤️
This Friday's Health Canada Radon Mitigation Grant winner is from #Dieppe, #NewBrunswick!
If you live in Dieppe, purchased a kit from NB Lung, and tested high for #Radon, check your email to find out if you we're this week's recipient.
Learn more about Radon on our site:
nblung.ca/environmenta...
If you live in Dieppe, purchased a kit from NB Lung, and tested high for #Radon, check your email to find out if you we're this week's recipient.
Learn more about Radon on our site:
nblung.ca/environmenta...
November 14, 2025 at 3:21 PM
This Friday's Health Canada Radon Mitigation Grant winner is from #Dieppe, #NewBrunswick!
If you live in Dieppe, purchased a kit from NB Lung, and tested high for #Radon, check your email to find out if you we're this week's recipient.
Learn more about Radon on our site:
nblung.ca/environmenta...
If you live in Dieppe, purchased a kit from NB Lung, and tested high for #Radon, check your email to find out if you we're this week's recipient.
Learn more about Radon on our site:
nblung.ca/environmenta...
Join us Jan 28–29 in Fredericton (or online) for the 2026 Atlantic Air Quality & Health Workshop! Explore the links between air, health & climate with experts from across Atlantic Canada.
Register now:
https://tinyurl.com/54v9u2nd
#AirQuality #Health #Climate #NB #Workshop2026
Register now:
https://tinyurl.com/54v9u2nd
#AirQuality #Health #Climate #NB #Workshop2026
November 14, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Join us Jan 28–29 in Fredericton (or online) for the 2026 Atlantic Air Quality & Health Workshop! Explore the links between air, health & climate with experts from across Atlantic Canada.
Register now:
https://tinyurl.com/54v9u2nd
#AirQuality #Health #Climate #NB #Workshop2026
Register now:
https://tinyurl.com/54v9u2nd
#AirQuality #Health #Climate #NB #Workshop2026
Have you purchased a radon test kit through NB Lung? If your home tested above safe levels, your kit was entered into a draw for a $1,000 mitigation grant courtesy of Health Canada!
This Friday's winner is from Scotch Lake, New Brunswick! If you or someone you know tested your home in...
This Friday's winner is from Scotch Lake, New Brunswick! If you or someone you know tested your home in...
November 7, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Have you purchased a radon test kit through NB Lung? If your home tested above safe levels, your kit was entered into a draw for a $1,000 mitigation grant courtesy of Health Canada!
This Friday's winner is from Scotch Lake, New Brunswick! If you or someone you know tested your home in...
This Friday's winner is from Scotch Lake, New Brunswick! If you or someone you know tested your home in...
Yesterday NB Lung hosted a Lung Cancer Lunch & Learn with more than 30 Members of the Legislative Assembly, lung cancer patient advocates and caregivers, and our friends from the Lung Health Foundation.
MLAs got to meet with lung cancer survivors and learn about how New Brunswick's healthcare...
MLAs got to meet with lung cancer survivors and learn about how New Brunswick's healthcare...
November 6, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Yesterday NB Lung hosted a Lung Cancer Lunch & Learn with more than 30 Members of the Legislative Assembly, lung cancer patient advocates and caregivers, and our friends from the Lung Health Foundation.
MLAs got to meet with lung cancer survivors and learn about how New Brunswick's healthcare...
MLAs got to meet with lung cancer survivors and learn about how New Brunswick's healthcare...
Exciting news from GNB - Free radon testing is coming to libraries across #NewBrunswick.
1 in 4 homes in the province have unsafe levels of radon, the leading cause of lung cancer after smoking - testing is a simple first step towards knowing how to keep yourself safe.
1 in 4 homes in the province have unsafe levels of radon, the leading cause of lung cancer after smoking - testing is a simple first step towards knowing how to keep yourself safe.
It is now easier for New Brunswickers to test their homes for radon gas.
Starting today, you can visit your local library to get a free kit that includes a 90-day test and other important information about radon gas.
https://www2.gnb.ca/content/gnb/en/news/news_release.2025.10.0439.html
Starting today, you can visit your local library to get a free kit that includes a 90-day test and other important information about radon gas.
https://www2.gnb.ca/content/gnb/en/news/news_release.2025.10.0439.html
October 14, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Exciting news from GNB - Free radon testing is coming to libraries across #NewBrunswick.
1 in 4 homes in the province have unsafe levels of radon, the leading cause of lung cancer after smoking - testing is a simple first step towards knowing how to keep yourself safe.
1 in 4 homes in the province have unsafe levels of radon, the leading cause of lung cancer after smoking - testing is a simple first step towards knowing how to keep yourself safe.
An update from our friends at the Atlantic Wildlife Institute and the Protect the Chignecto Isthmus Coalition:
"Guarded by security vehicles, concerns were raised after local heavy equipment contractors were brought in by the U.S. based project proponent, ProEnergy and seen cutting a road into...
"Guarded by security vehicles, concerns were raised after local heavy equipment contractors were brought in by the U.S. based project proponent, ProEnergy and seen cutting a road into...
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October 7, 2025 at 1:16 PM
An update from our friends at the Atlantic Wildlife Institute and the Protect the Chignecto Isthmus Coalition:
"Guarded by security vehicles, concerns were raised after local heavy equipment contractors were brought in by the U.S. based project proponent, ProEnergy and seen cutting a road into...
"Guarded by security vehicles, concerns were raised after local heavy equipment contractors were brought in by the U.S. based project proponent, ProEnergy and seen cutting a road into...
The First Annual NB Lung Run was a huge success! Nearly 100 participants raised over $10,000 to support our programs and lung health in #NewBrunswick!
We can't wait to see you all next year!
We can't wait to see you all next year!
September 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
The First Annual NB Lung Run was a huge success! Nearly 100 participants raised over $10,000 to support our programs and lung health in #NewBrunswick!
We can't wait to see you all next year!
We can't wait to see you all next year!
Support Bill 19 - An Act Recognizing the Right to a Healthy Environment by signing the Green petition on their website, and the NB Lung petition on our advocacy page.
The Greens are hoping to reach 1000 signatures during this week's review period, and we'd like to see our petition grow to 500!
The Greens are hoping to reach 1000 signatures during this week's review period, and we'd like to see our petition grow to 500!
September 18, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Support Bill 19 - An Act Recognizing the Right to a Healthy Environment by signing the Green petition on their website, and the NB Lung petition on our advocacy page.
The Greens are hoping to reach 1000 signatures during this week's review period, and we'd like to see our petition grow to 500!
The Greens are hoping to reach 1000 signatures during this week's review period, and we'd like to see our petition grow to 500!
Our friends at BC Lung have launched Carters project, getting air quality monitors into remote communities.
The first step in making changes to air quality policy is having the data to prove that there is a problem. Our hearts go out to Carter Vigh's family.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The first step in making changes to air quality policy is having the data to prove that there is a problem. Our hearts go out to Carter Vigh's family.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Smoke from Canada’s wildfires killed nine-year-old Carter Vigh – and 82,000 others around the world
Toxic particles spewed by 2023’s wildfires were even responsible for 22,000 early deaths in Europe, researchers say
www.theguardian.com
September 12, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Our friends at BC Lung have launched Carters project, getting air quality monitors into remote communities.
The first step in making changes to air quality policy is having the data to prove that there is a problem. Our hearts go out to Carter Vigh's family.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The first step in making changes to air quality policy is having the data to prove that there is a problem. Our hearts go out to Carter Vigh's family.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The first annual NB Lung Run was a huge success for us! More than 80 participants raised over $10,000 to support our programs and lung health in New Brunswick!
Thank you to everyone who showed up, raised funds, and helped make the Lung Run a great day.
Thank you to everyone who showed up, raised funds, and helped make the Lung Run a great day.
September 10, 2025 at 12:34 PM
The first annual NB Lung Run was a huge success for us! More than 80 participants raised over $10,000 to support our programs and lung health in New Brunswick!
Thank you to everyone who showed up, raised funds, and helped make the Lung Run a great day.
Thank you to everyone who showed up, raised funds, and helped make the Lung Run a great day.
NB Lung's CEO is speaking at the #NewBrunswick legislature today about much-needed updates to the Clean Air Act, which has is failing to protect New Brunswickers and has not been updated since 1997.
Preliminary info from GNB suggest that the updated act will include more pollutants to be tracked...
Preliminary info from GNB suggest that the updated act will include more pollutants to be tracked...
September 9, 2025 at 4:58 PM
NB Lung's CEO is speaking at the #NewBrunswick legislature today about much-needed updates to the Clean Air Act, which has is failing to protect New Brunswickers and has not been updated since 1997.
Preliminary info from GNB suggest that the updated act will include more pollutants to be tracked...
Preliminary info from GNB suggest that the updated act will include more pollutants to be tracked...
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Great article about #AirQuality in #Canada from CBC's Nicole Mortillaro.
"Air pollution is the greatest external threat to human well-being on the planet, and I don't believe that that is widely recognized," - Michael Greenstone
www.cbc.ca/news/science...
"Air pollution is the greatest external threat to human well-being on the planet, and I don't believe that that is widely recognized," - Michael Greenstone
www.cbc.ca/news/science...
August 28, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Great article about #AirQuality in #Canada from CBC's Nicole Mortillaro.
"Air pollution is the greatest external threat to human well-being on the planet, and I don't believe that that is widely recognized," - Michael Greenstone
www.cbc.ca/news/science...
"Air pollution is the greatest external threat to human well-being on the planet, and I don't believe that that is widely recognized," - Michael Greenstone
www.cbc.ca/news/science...
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Most restrictions that were placed on Crown lands due to the high risk of wildfires will be removed at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday. A burn ban, however, will remain in place.
https://www2.gnb.ca/content/gnb/en/news/news_release.2025.08.0360.html
https://www2.gnb.ca/content/gnb/en/news/news_release.2025.08.0360.html
August 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Most restrictions that were placed on Crown lands due to the high risk of wildfires will be removed at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday. A burn ban, however, will remain in place.
https://www2.gnb.ca/content/gnb/en/news/news_release.2025.08.0360.html
https://www2.gnb.ca/content/gnb/en/news/news_release.2025.08.0360.html
Another extremely hot day in #NewBrunswick with ongoing #wildfires and #AirQuality alerts in #Miramichi and #Moncton.
Here's a thread of resources to help out:
-Air Quality Updates for GC: weather.gc.ca/airquality/p...
-New Brunswick Fire Watch: www.gnb.ca/en/topic/law...
Here's a thread of resources to help out:
-Air Quality Updates for GC: weather.gc.ca/airquality/p...
-New Brunswick Fire Watch: www.gnb.ca/en/topic/law...
August 12, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Another extremely hot day in #NewBrunswick with ongoing #wildfires and #AirQuality alerts in #Miramichi and #Moncton.
Here's a thread of resources to help out:
-Air Quality Updates for GC: weather.gc.ca/airquality/p...
-New Brunswick Fire Watch: www.gnb.ca/en/topic/law...
Here's a thread of resources to help out:
-Air Quality Updates for GC: weather.gc.ca/airquality/p...
-New Brunswick Fire Watch: www.gnb.ca/en/topic/law...
Every day during the school year, thousands of New Brunswick kids ride diesel school buses—breathing in harmful fumes linked to asthma, learning issues, and more.
August 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Every day during the school year, thousands of New Brunswick kids ride diesel school buses—breathing in harmful fumes linked to asthma, learning issues, and more.
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NB Power wants to build a new fossil fuel power plant in Tantramar
They’re calling it a “renewable integration project.” But make no mistake: this is not green energy. It’s a 500 MW methane-fired plant that would pollute our air, lock us into 25+ more years of fossil fuels...
They’re calling it a “renewable integration project.” But make no mistake: this is not green energy. It’s a 500 MW methane-fired plant that would pollute our air, lock us into 25+ more years of fossil fuels...
July 25, 2025 at 2:18 PM
NB Power wants to build a new fossil fuel power plant in Tantramar
They’re calling it a “renewable integration project.” But make no mistake: this is not green energy. It’s a 500 MW methane-fired plant that would pollute our air, lock us into 25+ more years of fossil fuels...
They’re calling it a “renewable integration project.” But make no mistake: this is not green energy. It’s a 500 MW methane-fired plant that would pollute our air, lock us into 25+ more years of fossil fuels...
Exciting News! Our First Annual NB Lung Run has secured our Presenting Sponsor!
Thank you to Berni Williams Insurance & Financial Services Inc. for choosing to support our fundraising event. Your sponsorship is improving the lives of the 1 in 5 New Brunswickers living with lung disease.
Thank you to Berni Williams Insurance & Financial Services Inc. for choosing to support our fundraising event. Your sponsorship is improving the lives of the 1 in 5 New Brunswickers living with lung disease.
July 18, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Exciting News! Our First Annual NB Lung Run has secured our Presenting Sponsor!
Thank you to Berni Williams Insurance & Financial Services Inc. for choosing to support our fundraising event. Your sponsorship is improving the lives of the 1 in 5 New Brunswickers living with lung disease.
Thank you to Berni Williams Insurance & Financial Services Inc. for choosing to support our fundraising event. Your sponsorship is improving the lives of the 1 in 5 New Brunswickers living with lung disease.
🔥 Heads up, #NewBrunswick — Hot Temperatures & Wildfire Smoke Ahead ☀️
High heat and wildfire smoke are expected across the province Tuesday and Wednesday (July 15–16). These conditions can be tough on your lungs—especially if you have asthma, COPD, or other breathing issues.
High heat and wildfire smoke are expected across the province Tuesday and Wednesday (July 15–16). These conditions can be tough on your lungs—especially if you have asthma, COPD, or other breathing issues.
July 15, 2025 at 11:41 AM
🔥 Heads up, #NewBrunswick — Hot Temperatures & Wildfire Smoke Ahead ☀️
High heat and wildfire smoke are expected across the province Tuesday and Wednesday (July 15–16). These conditions can be tough on your lungs—especially if you have asthma, COPD, or other breathing issues.
High heat and wildfire smoke are expected across the province Tuesday and Wednesday (July 15–16). These conditions can be tough on your lungs—especially if you have asthma, COPD, or other breathing issues.
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Don't miss the 3rd Canadian Symposium on Long Covid Atlantic Meet Up on October 21, 2025 in St. John's Newfoundland or online!
@popnb.bsky.social @nbcovidinfo.bsky.social @keithmuise.bsky.social @lungnspei.bsky.social @nblung.bsky.social
www.longcovidweb.ca/events/3rd-c...
@popnb.bsky.social @nbcovidinfo.bsky.social @keithmuise.bsky.social @lungnspei.bsky.social @nblung.bsky.social
www.longcovidweb.ca/events/3rd-c...
June 26, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Don't miss the 3rd Canadian Symposium on Long Covid Atlantic Meet Up on October 21, 2025 in St. John's Newfoundland or online!
@popnb.bsky.social @nbcovidinfo.bsky.social @keithmuise.bsky.social @lungnspei.bsky.social @nblung.bsky.social
www.longcovidweb.ca/events/3rd-c...
@popnb.bsky.social @nbcovidinfo.bsky.social @keithmuise.bsky.social @lungnspei.bsky.social @nblung.bsky.social
www.longcovidweb.ca/events/3rd-c...
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Heat warnings issued this week. Heat puts children’s health and learning at risk. CPCHE and partners call for action urging fed leadership and prov/terr action to protect children from #ExtremeHeat.
@forourkidscanada.bsky.social @cape-acme.bsky.social @environmentaldefence.ca @cpha-acsp.bsky.social
@forourkidscanada.bsky.social @cape-acme.bsky.social @environmentaldefence.ca @cpha-acsp.bsky.social
May 15, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Heat warnings issued this week. Heat puts children’s health and learning at risk. CPCHE and partners call for action urging fed leadership and prov/terr action to protect children from #ExtremeHeat.
@forourkidscanada.bsky.social @cape-acme.bsky.social @environmentaldefence.ca @cpha-acsp.bsky.social
@forourkidscanada.bsky.social @cape-acme.bsky.social @environmentaldefence.ca @cpha-acsp.bsky.social
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Classrooms are heating up. CBC report highlights how many schools are ill-equipped to protect students and staff from #ExtremeHeat. CPCHE is calling for urgent action and investment in educational settings to protect children’s health and learning.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Extreme heat has schools in Ontario, Quebec straining to keep kids cool as year winds down | CBC News
As the first major heat event of the season hits while class is in session for many students, it's drawing renewed attention to the cooling challenges faced by schools today when temperatures bubble u...
www.cbc.ca
June 24, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Classrooms are heating up. CBC report highlights how many schools are ill-equipped to protect students and staff from #ExtremeHeat. CPCHE is calling for urgent action and investment in educational settings to protect children’s health and learning.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Great news! Our Race Roster page for the First Annual Lung Run is live! You can register today for the 2K walk/run or the 5K.
Help spread the word about our all-ages, all-abilities Walk/Run in support of your provincial lung health charity!
#NewBrunswick #Fredericton
raceroster.com/events/2025/...
Help spread the word about our all-ages, all-abilities Walk/Run in support of your provincial lung health charity!
#NewBrunswick #Fredericton
raceroster.com/events/2025/...
June 20, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Great news! Our Race Roster page for the First Annual Lung Run is live! You can register today for the 2K walk/run or the 5K.
Help spread the word about our all-ages, all-abilities Walk/Run in support of your provincial lung health charity!
#NewBrunswick #Fredericton
raceroster.com/events/2025/...
Help spread the word about our all-ages, all-abilities Walk/Run in support of your provincial lung health charity!
#NewBrunswick #Fredericton
raceroster.com/events/2025/...
🌈What does #Pride Month have to do with lung health? A lot, actually!
While modern Pride celebrations highlight the resilience and history of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, they are also a time to reflect upon continuing struggles and disparities.
While modern Pride celebrations highlight the resilience and history of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, they are also a time to reflect upon continuing struggles and disparities.
June 18, 2025 at 4:28 PM
🌈What does #Pride Month have to do with lung health? A lot, actually!
While modern Pride celebrations highlight the resilience and history of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, they are also a time to reflect upon continuing struggles and disparities.
While modern Pride celebrations highlight the resilience and history of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, they are also a time to reflect upon continuing struggles and disparities.