\“I could not have predicted this,” says Vernice Miller-Travis, who gathered data for a seminal 1987 study, “Toxic Wastes and Race in the United States.By Agya K. Aning
August 1, 2021
Decades after emerging from the broader civil rights movement, setting itself apart from traditional ...
By Courtney Rubin
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Dr. Maria Wei, a professor of dermatology at the University of California San Francisco, was helping a student come up with a project about how the environment affects skin when she looked out her office window and saw the ash falling from the sky...
By Coral Davenport
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WASHINGTON » The Biden administration announced Wednesday that it is banning a common pesticide, widely used since 1965 on fruits and vegetables, from use on food crops because it has been linked to neurological damage in childr...
By Christopher Flavelle
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Extreme heat causes many times more workplace injuries than official records capture, and those injuries are concentrated among the poorest workers, new research suggests, the latest evidence of how climate change worsens inequality.
Hotter days do...
By Judith Kohler
The Denver Post
A showdown that has been building for several years on Colorado’s High Plains could come to a head as cities and counties take aim at trying to make room for two of the state’s major industries: home building and oil and gas.
The state recently approved new buffer...
By Gretchen Reynolds
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The summer of 2021 came in sizzling, with June temperatures in many parts of the United States shattering records, baking landscapes and prompting those of us who usually exercise outside to question when, how — and if — we should conti...
By Matthew Daly The Associated Press
WASHINGTON » More than half the cosmetics sold in the United States and Canada are awash with a toxic industrial compound associated with serious health conditions, including cancer and reduced birth weight, according to a new study.
Researchers at the Uni...
Denver Water removes decades-old toxic service lines faster than expected
By Conrad Swanson
The Denver Post
Tens of thousands of Denver residents drink, bathe in and cook with water that comes in through lead service lines.
Denver Water crews are moving as fast as a public utility that serves 1....
Gov. Jay Inslee Signs Bill to Reduce Unnecessary Plastic and Address Growing Plastic Pollution Crisis
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WASHINGTON » The Biden administration on Thursday moved to repeal a Trump-era regulation that it said weakened the government’s ability to curb air pollution that threatens public health and is driving climate change.
Critics said the re...
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a long-sought public health goal of civil rights and anti-tobacco groups that has been beaten back by the tobacco industry for years, according to a federal health official.
For decades, menthol cigarettes have been marketed aggressively to Black ...
By Katie Langford
Daily Camera
BOULDER » , according to a new study by University of Colorado researchers.
The study by researcher Zhe Peng and Professor Jose-Luis Jimenez of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences builds on previous research to show that when ...
Biden plan would spend $45B to replace lead pipes
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CHICAGO » In the modest bungalows and two-flats of Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood, there’s never a shortage of needed home repairs staring residents in the face. And then there is the less...
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Something alarming is happening between our legs. Sperm counts have been dropping; infant boys are developing more genital abnormalities; more girls are experiencing early puberty; and adult women appear to be suffering declining egg quality and mor...
By Nicholas Kristof
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Something alarming is happening between our legs. Sperm counts have been dropping; infant boys are developing more genital abnormalities; more girls are experiencing early puberty; and adult women appear to be suffering declining egg qua...
By Roni Caryn Rabin
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Ingredients in many baby foods, including some organic fare, are contaminated with heavy metals such as arsenic, lead and cadmium at levels that are far higher than those allowed in products such as bottled water, congressional investigators sai...
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Every day at work for 15 years, Sean Mitchell, a captain in the Nantucket Fire Department in Massachusetts, has put on the bulky suit that protects him from the heat and flames he faces on the job. But last year, he and his team came across un...
By Matthew Brown
The Associated Press
BILLINGS, MONT. » Wildfire smoke accounted for up to half of all health-damaging small particle air pollution in the Western U.S. in recent years as warming temperatures fueled more destructive blazes, according to a study released Monday.
Eve...
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WESTERN WILDFIRES
By Matthew Brown and Camille FassettThe Associated Press
SANTA CRUZ, CALIF.»Wildfires churning out dense plumes of smoke as they scorch huge swaths of the West Coast have exposed millions of people to hazardous pollutio...
By The Associated Press, from The Denver Post eEdition, July 16, 2020
Colorado’s Water Quality Control Commission is putting new limits on a class of chemicals common in everything from nonstick pans to firefighting foam. Colorado Public Radio reports the commission voted unanimously Tuesda...
