written by Elise Miller, EdM Director Widespread water contamination from lead in Flint, Michigan, and the huge methane leak in Aliso Canyon, California, have dominated media headlines in recent weeks. The oft-repeated response given to questions of why these situations weren’t addressed earlier has been: It would have been too costly. With this mindset, the government […]
With substantial media focus on the tap water situation in Flint, Michigan, and beyond in the last few weeks, many people are concerned about lead levels in their tap water. This concern is well founded, for lead has devastating impacts on our health, and especially on children’s health. There is no amount of lead exposure […]
written by Nancy Hepp, MS Research and Communications Specialist Beginning with this post, these columns will be focused on one issue and will be posted as topics emerge rather than on a strict weekly schedule. Exposure to chemicals, radiation, dust, heat and other stressors at work are a perennial concern. Recent items highlight some of […]
For nearly 30 years Theo Colborn, PhD, founder of The Endocrine Disruption Exchange (TEDX), dedicated herself to revealing the dangers of endocrine disrupting chemicals to wildlife and humans. More recently she alerted us all to the threats posed by chemicals associated with oil and gas development. She wove the two together beautifully in her statement The […]
Ted Schettler, MD, MPH Science Director Sheila Kaplan and Corbin Hiar show that lead contamination of drinking water is a problem that has not yet been solved. Here’s what can happen when a systems problem is attacked piecemeal….. missing the danger, new tactics, and passing the buck. Ultimately, a failure to protect public health. Millions of […]
Bernard Windham, MD Mercury and lead are extremely neurotoxic and cytotoxic, but their combined synergistic effect is much worse. A dose of mercury sufficient to kill 1% of tested rats, when combined with a dose of lead sufficient to kill less than 1% of rats, resulted in killing 100% of rats tested(1). Thus with combined […]
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written by Elise Miller, MEd Director Imagine: You want to find out what in the environment might be contributing to a health issue you or loved ones are facing. You come across this highly integrated, science-based, straightforward, streamlined, easy-to-navigate website. On one page, it not only provides a comprehensive summary of your topic of interest, […]
written by Kathy Sykes Senior Advisor for Aging and Public Health at the EPA Office of Research and Development This post is shared with permission from the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials. It was originally posted on StatePublicHealth.org. Stylistic edits have been made. What do health disparities, interest on the national debt, and […]
September 26th is World Environmental Health Day. The theme this year is “Tobacco Control… a response to the global tobacco pandemic”, and so we offer this commentary, shared with the author’s permission. The original post is available on his blog. written by Stanton Glantz, PhD Professor of Medicine and Truth Initiative Distinguished Professor of Tobacco […]
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