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Child Gun Injury Risk Spikes When Children Leave School for the Day

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Playing the Long Game: A Conversation on Policy, Power, and Justice with Alum Alyssa Benalfew-Ramos

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The Public's Radio

New Bedford’s $1 Billion Harbor Cleanup Is Nearly Complete, EPA Says

in Environmental Health, SPH In the Media

Quotes Wendy Heiger-Bernays, clinical professor of environmental health

Tagged: EPA, pollution, water pollutants

Task & Purpose

The Navy Told This Military Family They Were Safe from Toxic Water. Then Both Their Children Ended up in the ER

in Environmental Health, SPH In the Media

Quotes Wendy Heiger-Bernays, clinical professor of environmental health

Tagged: water pollutants, water safety

Concord Monitor

My Turn: New Hampshire’s Pursuit of Safe Drinking Water

in SPH In the Media

Opinion co-authored by professor emeritus Richard Clapp

Tagged: chemical exposure, clean water, drinking water, environmental chemicals, water contamination, water pollutants, water safety

Salon

Questions Remain about Using Treated Sewage on Farms

in Environmental Health, SPH In the Media

Quotes Laura Orlando, adjunct assistant professor of environmental health

Tagged: air pollutants, environmental chemicals, Environmental Health, environmental safety, water pollutants

Livingston Ledger

New Research Identifies New Bedford Harbor as Major Source of Airborne PCBs

in Environmental Health, SPH In the Media

Quotes Wendy Heiger-Bernays, clinical professor of environmental health

Tagged: air pollutants, air pollution, PCBs, water pollutants

South Coast Today

Airborne PCBs near New Bedford Harbor Pose Health Risks, Study Finds

in Environmental Health, SPH In the Media

Quotes Wendy Heiger-Bernays, clinical professor of environmental health, and Madeleine Scammell, associate professor of environmental health

Tagged: air pollutants, air pollution, Environmental Health, environmental safety, PCBs, water pollutants

WBSM

Airborne PCBs near New Bedford Harbor Said Bad for Public Health

in Environmental Health, SPH In the Media

References study by Wendy Heiger-Bernays, clinical professor of environmental health; alum Kathryn Scott Tomsho; Komal Basra and Zoe Petropoulos, doctoral candidates in the Department of Environmental Health; and Madeleine Scammell, associate professor of environmental health

Tagged: air pollutants, air pollution, Environmental Health, environmental safety, PCBs, water pollutants

WCAI

Study Finds Contaminated Air around New Bedford Harbor

in Environmental Health, SPH In the Media

Quotes Madeleine Scammell, associate professor of environmental health

Tagged: air pollutants, air pollution, Environmental Health, environmental safety, water contamination, water pollutants

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine News

PFAS: Controlling, Preventing, and Understanding Exposure⁠

in All News, Environmental Health, SPH In the Media

Quotes Thomas Webster, professor of environmental health

Tagged: Environmental Health, water contamination, water pollutants, water safety

BU Today

POV: What Trump Got Wrong, and Right, in His Speech about the Environment

in Environmental Health, SPH In the Media

Opinion by Jonathan Levy, professor and chair of environmental health

Tagged: air pollutants, air pollution, climate change, decreasing emissions, economic justice, environmental chemicals, politics and health, water pollutants

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