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Ensure a Healthy Start: Prevent and Reduce Childhood Exposure to Harmful Chemicals [PDF]
, 2015 This brief provides an explanation of key concepts and considerations funders will encounter when exploring philanthropic opportunities in a new topic area, and strategies and resources funders can leverage to achieve high impact.It also presents an ...
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Greenness and pollution exposure predict corticosterone concentration in an urban songbird
Frontiers in PhysiologyAir pollution is known to negatively affect avian health, and some air pollutants have been suggested to drive changes in bird population size at a regional level. Although several studies have investigated the effect of air pollution on bird health, how
Mikus Abolins-Abols +14 more
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Basing Superfund Cleanups on Future Land Uses: Promising Remedy or Dubious Nostrum? [PDF]
: Supporters of the effort to link cleanups at hazardous waste sites to the sites' expected land uses claim that amending language in the federal Superfund statute to allow this may yield a number of benefits.
Hersh, Robert +2 more
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Congressional Risk Proposals [PDF]
, 1995 Dr. Paxman relates how an ambitious environmental agenda supported by the Administration and many members of the 103d Congress was ultimately derailed.
Paxman, Dalton G.
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, 2008 Congressional Testimonh; Leadership in Legal Education; New Books; National ...
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Valuing Environmental Quality: A Space-Based Strategy [PDF]
This paper develops and applies a space-based strategy for overcoming the general problem of getting at the demand for non-market goods. It focuses specifically on evaluating one form of environmental quality, distance from EPA designated environmental ...
David E. Clark
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Are Risk Regulators Rational' Evidence from Hazardous Waste Cleanup Decisions [PDF]
Using original data on the cleanup of 130 hazardous waste sites, W. Kip Viscusi of Harvard Law School and James T. Hamilton of Duke University's Sanford Institute of Public Policy examine the extent that political decisions and quantitative risk ...
Hamilton, James T., Viscusi, W. Kip
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THE EFFECT OF HAZARDOUS WASTE SITES ON PROPERTY VALUES IN ZONES OF HIGH INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY: A HEDONIC APPROACH [PDF]
Hedonic pricing methods typically employ a distance-to-site variable to measure variation in exposure to environmental disamenities. Some environmental disamenities, like hazardous waste sites, may be spatially correlated with another prominent feature ...
Deaton, Brady J., Jr., Hoehn, John P.
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Residential proximity to Superfund sites and breast cancer incidence in a nationwide cohort. [PDF]
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