Publication Items

EPA Releases Reports on Toxics at Selected Schools [1]

Following a December 2008 USA Today report on outdoor air pollution at hundreds of schools, EPA began a monitoring process. Final reports for 21 (of the small number of schools selected) have now been released; the results are mixed.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Pollution [3]
People & Population [4]
Health [5]
Chemicals [6]
Air [7]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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Disease-Tracking Tool May Help Both People and Wildlife [9]

This growing database may help you identify emerging problems and patterns, and supplement what government and university personnel can track.
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TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Wildlife [10]
People & Population [4]
Health [5]
Environmental Health [11]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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Pavement Sealcoat Contaminates Lakes and Streams [12]

A soon-to-be-published study has found elevated levels of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, probable human carcinogens toxic to fish and other aquatic life, in waterways are originating from coal tar-based pavement sealcoats.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Water & Oceans [13]
Pollution [3]
Health [5]
Chemicals [6]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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EPA Gives Public an Environmental Justice Mapping Tool: EJView [14]

This new tool allows any user online to create custom study areas based on a wide range of variables: address, ZIP code, county, city, township, facility, watershed, or geographic coordinates. Other environmental data can then be mapped onto that study area.
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WatchDog TipSheet [15]
Topics on the Beat:
Technology [16]
Pollution [3]
People & Population [4]
Health [5]
Government [17]
Environmental Health [11]
Chemicals [6]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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Cell-Phone Industry Seeks To Silence Right-to-Know Demands [18]

The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association has filed suit against San Francisco in response to a right-to-know ordinance it passed guaranteeing consumers information about how much electromagnetic radiation their cell phones were exposing them to.
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WatchDog TipSheet [15]
Topics on the Beat:
Technology [16]
Health [5]
Consumer [19]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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Report: Nitrogen and Phosphorous Pollution Remains Serious Threat [20]

The USGS study used data from thousands of locations to analyze trends from 1992 to 2004. You can probably find many local and regional stories as these pollutants contribute to various environmental and human health problems.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Water & Oceans [13]
Pollution [3]
Health [5]
Fish & Fisheries [21]
Environmental Health [11]
Energy & Fuel [22]
Chemicals [6]
Agriculture [23]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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Drinking Water Threats May Soon Be Rapidly Detected [24]

EPA and the Dept. of Energy have collaborated to develop an improved monitoring package that utilizes inline sensors in the water network and software called CANARY.
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TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Health [5]
Water & Oceans [13]
Technology [16]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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ESRI Geomedicine: Online Map Resource for Environmental Health [25]

From GIS software company ESRI, this free tool lets users enter places where they lived for more than two years at a time, and the site provides you with a personalized "place history" pdf report and shareable maps detailing local heart attack rate and nearby toxic chemicals for each location.
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TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Health [5]
Technology [16]
Environmental Health [11]
Region:
National (U.S.) [26]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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Natural Gas Hazards Drawing Federal Attention [27]

After hearing for years about public concern over the adverse health and environmental effects of hydraulic fracturing used to increase production of natural gas, US EPA has begun a process (including 4 public meetings in July; CO, NY, PA, TX) to decide what the issues are and how to address them.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Chemicals [6]
Energy & Fuel [22]
Health [5]
People & Population [4]
Environmental Health [11]
Region:
National (U.S.) [26]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [28]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [29]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [30]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [31]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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Manufacturing Plants Are Source of Drugs in Waterways [32]

Wastewater treatment plants can't mitigate the problem, which is compounded by other sources of water contamination, such as drugs that end up in landfills or flushed down toilets, and metabolites or unutilized drugs that pass through people who take the drugs.
SEJ Publication Types:
TipSheet [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Economy & Business [33]
Chemicals [6]
Consumer [19]
Health [5]
Pollution [3]
Water & Oceans [13]
Environmental Health [11]
Region:
National (U.S.) [26]
Visibility:
Public [8]
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