First Responders, Health Professionals Question EPA’s Decision to Hide...
This month, representatives of a group of first responders, health professionals and scientists questioned EPA’s decision to withhold the secret identities of 41 chemicals used for oil and natural gas...
View ArticleIs EPA Stifling Science on Chemical Toxicity Reports?
This is the question that journalist Jim Daley raised recently in an article published in Scientific American. According to the article, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is substantially...
View ArticleChanging the Traditional Understanding of How Chemicals Affect Our Health
The way scientists think about how chemicals cause their toxic effects is changing. Recent scientific research tells us that the traditional notion of how chemicals act is being replaced by a better...
View ArticleInterpreting Testing Results; The Basis for No Cause for Alarm
Not too long ago, a local leader in a community in Nevada asked if I could review a set of water testing data. The sample was taken from a water storage tank that provides drinking water to the town...
View ArticleHow vulnerable is your community to Coronavirus? New maps reveal familiar...
The predominantly black and low-income communities living near the back-to-back petrochemical refineries of Louisiana’s “cancer alley” have long suffered compromised immune systems and high rates of...
View ArticleVulnerability to Pollution and Susceptibility to Covid-19
A new screening tool is now available that identifies populations across the country that are most vulnerable to severe complications following exposure to the coronavirus and development of covid-19....
View ArticleA Pandemic of Pollution
The death toll due to Covid-19 passed the 90,000 mark in the United States this week. This is a truly staggering if not sobering number that raises many questions about how we as a nation respond to...
View ArticleResidential Segregation and Disproportionate Exposure to Airborne Carcinogens
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis published a paper late last year that found carcinogens present in the air of the St. Louis metropolitan area to be highly concentrated in Black and...
View ArticleEnvironmental Justice for Overburdened Communities: A View from New Jersey
Last year, the New Jersey state legislature passed a landmark environmental justice bill that requires the state’s Department of Environmental Protection to identify overburdened communities in the...
View ArticleBenzo(a)pyrene (BaP)
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