"American Kids Are Being Exposed to Lead From Airports"
"Children living near a small California airport were more likely to have elevated levels of lead in their blood, a new study found."
Source: Earther, 01/13/2023
Chemicals
PHMSA Emergency Response Guidebook (ERG)
The ERG is a potential life-saving tool you can keep on your cell phone. It gives you the 4-digit ID Number for a chemical name, which allows you to find the 3-digit Action Guide number for detailed information about how a spill should be handled.
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Winning Over Editors and Others with Award Winners’ Multimedia Nuggets
If you’re looking to engage key constituencies for your journalism — whether editors, sources, students or people who have been marginalized — a new set of short videos from award-winning journalists (like KESQ's Angela Chen, at left) can serve as a helpful resource. Inside Story has a roadmap of how to make smart use of these video nuggets to, for instance, convince newsroom powerbrokers to give you more time and support for ambitious stories.
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"Global Pollinator Losses Causing 500,000 Early Deaths A Year – Study"
"The global loss of pollinators is already causing about 500,000 early deaths a year by reducing the supply of healthy foods, a study has estimated."
Source: Guardian, 01/10/2023
"UN Says Ozone Layer Slowly Healing, Hole To Mend By 2066"
"Earth’s protective ozone layer is slowly but noticeably healing at a pace that would fully mend the hole over Antarctica in about 43 years, a new United Nations report says."
Source: AP, 01/10/2023
"PFAS Bans, Restrictions Go Into Effect in States in 2023"
"Laws and regulations restricting “forever chemicals” in more than a half dozen states are entering effect in 2023, including the start of a timeline for a first-in-the-nation ban on PFAS in all products in Maine."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 01/09/2023
"EPA Targets Plastics Company in PFAS Probe"
"EPA and environmental groups are targeting a company for allegedly releasing “forever chemicals” into tens of millions of plastic containers that later contaminated pesticides, which the agency said poses “unreasonable” risks to workers and the environment.
Source: E&E News, 01/06/2023
"Study: Toxic PFAS Chemical Plume Detected in Green Bay"
"A large plume of toxic chemicals produced by a plant that manufactures firefighting foam has seeped through groundwater to Lake Michigan’s Green Bay, scientists said Tuesday."
Source: AP, 01/06/2023
"PFAS Bans, Restrictions Go Into Effect in States as Year Begins"
"Laws and regulations restricting “forever chemicals” in more than a half dozen states are entering effect in 2023, including the start of a timeline for a first-in-the-nation ban on PFAS in all products in Maine."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 01/04/2023
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