Physician, epidemiologist, and Dean of the Boston University School of Public Health Dr. Sandro Galea just wrote a fascinating opinion piece for Newsweek Magazine on health care, and used asthma as an example of how non-health sectors of the economy affect health. He pointed out that asthma costs...
Image source: Duke University Air pollution has been linked to a long list of cognitive and emotional problems, including anxiety, autism spectrum disorders, decreased cognitive function, depression, mental decline, and suicide. New research conducted in Sweden, a country with relatively clean...
Image: East Bay Express http://goo.gl/9yJb6H Freight transportation hubs such as ports and rail yards may be America’s biggest “black hole” in terms of environmental health, but that might change in the future. Owners of most polluting facilities, such as power plants,...
International shipping is a case study in uncosted externalities – costs imposed on others by those who profit from an economic activity. While shipping generates huge amounts of revenue – $155 billion annually for the containerized shipping industry alone – global shipping...
Image: Nickel and vanadium, metals released by burning fuel oil may be damaging to developing lungs of children. Source: American Thoracic Society Researchers at the University of Southern California presented a study this week concluding that the metals nickel and vanadium, emitted by ships...
Share the Rocha’s story and sign the #ZeroEmissionsNow petition. Thomas and Kim Rocha chose their “dream community” of Bloomington, California many years ago, because it wasn’t flooded with the traffic they had experienced elsewhere. But in recent years, Bloomington and other sleepy areas of...
Photo: University of Southern California Are you one of the tens of millions of Americans exposed to dangerous diesel exhaust air pollution from ports or railyards? Diesel exhaust air pollution causes cancer, cardiovascular and lung diseases, and premature death, and has been linked to a growing...
Breaking news – just released by Sen. Cory Booker’s office: May 11, 2016 WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Sens. Cory Booker (D-NJ), Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) sent a letter to Environmental Protection (EPA)...
The Washington State Department of Ecology has released a draft environmental study on what would be the largest coal export terminal in North America, near Longview WA, scheduled public hearings in May and June, and is accepting comments. If you care about global warming and environmental health,...
If we learned one lesson from the disastrous dredging of the Miami Bay, it’s not to trust the U.S Army Corps of Engineers to protect our marine environment See Florida port dredging projects under attack after Port of Miami dredging destroys hundreds of acres of coral reefs, and Miami port...
Warehouses are not dangerous when built on a reasonable scale. However, the trend for the past 10-20 years has been for ever-larger warehouse complexes, concentrating truck traffic and diesel exhaust pollution, and often threatening the health of workers and nearby communities. A warehouse...
The Long Beach Press Telegram ran a wonderful opinion piece yesterday by Elena Rodriguez of the Long Beach Alliance for Children with Asthma, a member of the Moving Forward Network. LBACA’s mission is to improve the lives of children with asthma in Long Beach, California. Elena, her...