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October 13, 2009
Posted by Gina Solomon in Health and the Environment
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- cancer, drinkingwater, erinbrockovich, hexavalentchromium, simplesteps
Almost ten years after Julia Roberts played the title role in the movie, the saga about chromium contamination in drinking water continues. The current sequel opens in California on Monday, when the Cal/EPA Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA)...continued→
April 23, 2009
Posted by Gina Solomon in Health and the Environment
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- cancer, children, collar, epa, flea, greenpaws, neurologic, pesticide, pets, propoxur, simplesteps, tetrachlorvinphos
When my team at NRDC decided to study whether flea collars leave a hazardous residue on cats and dogs, we really didn't know if there was a problem. It seemed possible that we wouldn't find much, and that the residues...continued→
December 8, 2008
Posted by Gina Solomon in Environmental Justice
, Health and the Environment
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- air, asthma, cancer, children, health, monitoring, pollution, school, TRI
Last summer I stood in a school yard next to the huge cement kiln in the town of Oro Grande, California. It was hard not to be impressed. The school was new, and the soccer field was perfectly manicured. The playground...continued→