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11/7/08: New LDDI fact sheet - Mental Health and the Environment |
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The Collaborative on Health and the Environment (CHE) is a diverse network of 2900 individual and organizational Partners in 45 countries and 48 states, working collectively to advance knowledge and effective action to address growing concerns about the links between human health and environmental factors. 
CHE Science Director Ted Schettler, MD: Exposing Environmental Threats to Healthy Aging As told to Shelby Gonzalez, CHE Administrative Coordinator Read past interviews...
It all started on a September morning in 2003 when a drilling crew pulled up onto Laura Ward’s lawn in the tiny town of Tallevast, Florida, 38 miles south of Tampa, and started boring a hole. Continue reading...
Chemicals: Our Champions, Our Killers An environmental lawyer who fought toxic chemicals all his life has to depend on them in a fight for his life. I have leukemia. Those must be among the most frightening words in the English language. My particular form of the disease, called acute myeloid leukemia, was diagnosed a few weeks ago. Leukemia was once a death sentence. No more. Through a combination of chemotherapy and a stem cell transplant, it now is actually curable. Sometimes.
Environment Meets Health, Again Dr. Richard Jackson The seemingly insurmountable health challenge in the 19th century was infectious disease. In the 21st century it will be a mix of global warming, poverty, and infectious and chronic diseases. Life expectancy in the United States is now twice that of the 19th century, and environmental health--healthier food, cleaner water, better places to live (the "built environment")--has been the greatest contributor. Can environmental health address 21st-century challenges? |
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 6 Jan Democrats plan an early push against tobacco. The new Congress plans to move aggressively against the tobacco industry by regulating cigarettes, raising sales taxes and ratifying an international antitobacco treaty. 6 Jan Bay advocates sue EPA. An unusual coalition of environmentalists, watermen and former officials filed suit against the U.S. EPA, asking a judge to overhaul the floundering government campaign to clean up the Chesapeake Bay. After 25 years and nearly $6 billion in spending, it has failed to deliver. 6 Jan Residents fight proposed power plant over pollution. Twenty premature deaths a year - that's what Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment estimates it would cost Salt Lake and Davis counties in human terms if Utah goes forward with plans to approve a new power plant adjacent to the Holly Refinery in West Bountiful. 6 Jan Airing a threat: Group fights coal plant expansion. Tulsa is already chagrined by the "F" it received on the American Lung Association test for ozone and air pollution. And it's unclear what the impact would be if one of the world's largest power providers builds a second coal-fired plant in this tiny Oklahoma town. 6 Jan Coal-ash spill may strip TVA of 'deference' from U.S., states. The deluge of ash from a coal-fired power plant that buried 300 acres of eastern Tennessee is sparking new state and federal scrutiny of the Tennessee Valley Authority, the largest U.S. public power company. |
