From the Toronto Star and the National Observer series The Price of Oil: “The view from the front porch, once a landscape of rolling hills,…
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From Thomson Reuters Foundation News: “Sharon Harlan, a professor of health sciences and sociology at Northeastern University in Boston, says she and colleagues have discovered…
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From the NIEHS Partnerships in Environmental Public Health: “‘The institute has helped shift the nature of environmental health research at Northeastern,’ Brown said. ‘It has really…
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From The Intercept: “‘Every PFAS that has been studied is causing problems,’ said [Dr. Linda] Birnbaum, whose agency [NIEHS] funds scientific research into the chemicals. ‘Even if…
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From News@Northeastern: “New research‚ from Northeastern University and the Environmental Working Group, shows toxic chemical pollution found in tap water systems that serve 15 million…
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From EWG: “The known extent of the contamination of U.S. communities with PFCs – highly fluorinated toxic chemicals, also known as PFASs, that have been linked…
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From Toxic News: “Over the two-day Toxic Expertise annual workshop it was fascinating to hear about such a broad range of approaches and engagements with…
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From WGBH News: “Since Trump took office, government agency websites have removed references to climate change, Environmental Protection Agency employees have been forbidden from talking to…
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From News @Northeastern: “The effort is part of a national grassroots “data rescue” movement in which events are held to identify and archive a…
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