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The known extent of contamination of American communities with the highly toxic fluorinated compounds known as PFAS continues to grow...
May 23, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
May 20–26, 2019 marks Healthy and Safe Swimming Week! Each year, Healthy and Safe Swimming Week focuses on simple steps everyone can...
May 20, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
A new report from the Alabama Center for Rural Enterprise (ACRE), the Columbia Law School Human Rights Clinic, and the Institute for...
May 14, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The EPA is seeking public comment on a draft set of recommendations for cleaning up groundwater contaminated with PFOA and PFOS. When...
Apr 29, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) is soliciting research to commence a multi-site study on the human health...
Apr 23, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
Note: This is the ninth edition of NACCHO’s Greener Guidance environmental health advice column. See past columns here. Submit a...
Apr 22, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The Healthy and Safe Swimming Week Partner Toolkit 2019 is now available from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The...
The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) has released its review of state environmental health legislation for 2018. In...
In the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019, signed by the President on February 15, 2019, Congress provided $60 million in budget...
The known extent of contamination of American communities with the highly toxic fluorinated compounds known as PFAS continues to grow at an alarming rate. As of March 2019, 610 locations in 43 states are now known to be affected, including drinking water systems serving an estimated 19 million people. The latest update of an interactive […]
May 20–26, 2019 marks Healthy and Safe Swimming Week! Each year, Healthy and Safe Swimming Week focuses on simple steps everyone can take to help ensure healthy and safe swimming. This year’s theme, “Pool Chemistry for Healthy and Safe Swimming,” aims to encourage swimmers and pool operators to learn how to protect themselves and loved […]
A new report from the Alabama Center for Rural Enterprise (ACRE), the Columbia Law School Human Rights Clinic, and the Institute for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University seeks to bring attention to the unique plight of rural U.S. communities struggling to secure basic sanitation and wastewater. The problem of inadequate and unaffordable […]
The EPA is seeking public comment on a draft set of recommendations for cleaning up groundwater contaminated with PFOA and PFOS. When finalized, the recommendations will provide a starting point for making site-specific cleanup decisions. The guidance is based on the EPA’s current scientific understanding of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) toxicity and is intended […]
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) is soliciting research to commence a multi-site study on the human health effects of exposures to drinking water contaminated with per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). Proposed study sites must include communities using PFAS-contaminated private residential wells or public water systems. Exposure assessment will be based on...
Note: This is the ninth edition of NACCHO’s Greener Guidance environmental health advice column. See past columns here. Submit a question here. April 2019 Dear Greener Guidance, In my area, there is a push toward increasing housing density without expanding central sewer systems, including in areas that have extremely coarse-textured soils with shallow water tables. What are […]
The Healthy and Safe Swimming Week Partner Toolkit 2019 is now available from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The toolkit is a guide to help public health professionals engage their target audiences and increase awareness of this annual observance. The toolkit includes community outreach suggestions; online resources; a sample press release, feature, and proclamation; […]
The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) has released its review of state environmental health legislation for 2018. In 2018, state legislatures introduced 3,486 bills relating to environmental health, enacting 686 of them. This is the most bills on environmental health NCSL has seen since it began tracking the issue in 2012. Bills on environmental […]
In the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019, signed by the President on February 15, 2019, Congress provided $60 million in budget authority for the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act of 2014 (WIFIA) program to cover the subsidy required to provide a much larger amount of credit assistance. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or the Agency) […]
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