Tag: Lead poisoning
Lead from old paint and pipes is still a harmful and...
Aaron Specht, Purdue University
Lead is a potent neurotoxin that causes severe health effects such as neurological damage, organ...
Digitized records from wildlife centers show the most common ways that...
Tara K. Miller, University of Virginia and Richard B. Primack, Boston University
At hundreds of wildlife rehabilitation centers...
The US is making plans to replace all of its lead...
Gabriel Filippelli, IUPUI
The Biden administration has released a plan to accelerate removal of lead water pipes and lead...
A century of tragedy: How the car and gas industry knew...
Bill Kovarik, Radford University
On the frosty morning of Dec. 9, 1921, in Dayton, Ohio, researchers at a General...
Biden’s infrastructure plan targets lead pipes that threaten public health across...
Gabriel Filippelli, IUPUI
President Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan includes a proposal to upgrade the U.S. drinking water distribution system...
EPA’s proposed ‘secret science’ rule directly threatens children’s health
Gabriel Filippelli, IUPUI
The Trump administration is working to weaken U.S. environmental regulations in many areas, from water and air pollution to energy development and...
How to address America’s lead crisis and provide safe drinking water...
Qi Bing, University of California, Irvine and Maura C. Allaire, University of California, Irvine
Since the Flint drinking water crisis erupted five years ago, Americans...
How the Flint water crisis set students back
Marilynne R Wood, University of Toledo
When the Flint water crisis took place in 2014 and 2015, one of my graduate nursing students decided to...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
