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Contaminated Soil in New Orleans: New Research Finds Arsenic is from Katrina Flood

November 16, 2009

Posted by Gina Solomon in Environmental Justice , Health and the Environment

Tags:
arsenic, children, EPA, katrina, neworleans, playground, school, sediment, soil

"The arsenic was probably there all along." That's what our team of scientists kept hearing from EPA and Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) staff in the months and years following Hurricane Katrina. As a public health advocate, I didn't...continued

Back to School Time: How to Avoid the H1N1 Flu

August 26, 2009

Posted by Gina Solomon in Health and the Environment

Tags:
flu, H1N1, influenza, school, simplesteps, swineflu

The H1N1 ("swine") flu pandemic is in full swing, and we can expect many more cases this fall as kids go back to school. I'm still anxiously watching this virus and hoping that it will remain relatively mild (as flu...continued

Health Risks at Schools

December 8, 2008

Posted by Gina Solomon in Environmental Justice , Health and the Environment

Tags:
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

Gina Solomon
Gina Solomon
Senior Scientist
San Francisco
I've been a Senior Scientist at NRDC for twelve years, and my work is focused on protecting people...
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