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Moving Beyond Cleanup: Identifying the Crucibles of Environmental Gentrification [PDF]

, 2007
This paper reviews the distributional impacts associated with "environmental gentrification" following the cleanup and reuse of LULUs. By making a neighborhood more attractive, cleanup and reuse of LULUs may drive up local real estate prices.
Eleanor McCormick, H. Spencer Banzhaf
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Associations between household characteristics and environmentally persistent free radicals in house dust from two Australian locations

Frontiers in Public Health
IntroductionThe association between air pollution and adverse health outcomes has been extensively documented, with oxidative stress widely considered a contributing factor. However, the precise underlying mechanism(s) remains unclear.
Wen Ray Lee, Prakash Dangal, Gaurav Langan, Nina Lazarevic, Zhiwei Xu, Stephania A. Cormier, Slawo Lomnicki, Peter D. Sly, Dwan Vilcins   +8 more
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Turning Brownfields into Jobfields [PDF]

, 2002
A handbook for practitioners and citizens on making brownfields development ...
Carl E. Van Horn, Dan Segal, Greg Lawler, K. A. Dixon   +3 more
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Autism Spectrum Disorders and Identified Toxic Land Fills: Co-Occurrence Across States

Environmental Health Insights, 2008
It is believed that gene by environmental interactions contribute to the pathogenesis of autism spectrum disorders (ASD). We hypothesize that ASD are associated with early and repeated exposures to any of a number of toxicants or mixtures of toxicants ...
Xue Ming, Michael Brimacombe, Joanne H. Malek, Nisha Jani, George C. Wagner   +4 more
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Hanensula anomala isolated from the Berkeley Pit, Butte, MT, is a metal-specific extremophile

Microbiology Spectrum
A yeast-like extremophile organism, Hansenula anomala, has been isolated from the superfund site the Berkeley Pit Lake in Butte, Montana. Studies demonstrate H. anomala growth in some of the known Berkeley Pit Lake solutes.
Kyle Roessler, Mariah C. Friedlander, Marthe Y. VanSickle, Christina L. Rush   +3 more
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Fighting for Pollution Cleanup in a Company Town: Silver Valley People's Action Coalition [PDF]

, 2003
Barbara Miller and a coalition of local activists, members of the Silver Valley People's Action Coalition (SVPAC), address the environmental and health consequence of 100 years of mining in Idaho's Silver Valley.
Jonathan Walters
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Nutrition and Environmental Pollution Extension Curriculum Improved Diet-Related Behaviors and Environmental Health Literacy

Environmental Health Insights, 2019
Kentucky experiences some of the nation’s worst health outcomes related to obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, and other age-related chronic diseases linked with oxidative stress and inflammation, which in turn are associated with poor diet, lack of ...
Dawn Brewer, Hannah Bellamy, Anna Hoover, Annie Koempel, Lisa Gaetke   +4 more
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A Survey of Residual Cancer Risks Permitted by Health, Safety and Environmental Policy [PDF]

, 1995
The authors describe permitted U.S. residual cancer risks, focusing on numerical levels specifically and implicitly authorized by statute or regulation.
Graham, John D., Sadowitz, March
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Can Comparative Risk Be Used to Develop Better Environmental Decisions? [PDF]

, 1997
This thesis investigates the design of atria for daylighting in large scale buildings. Athree dimensional test building with a central atrium was constructed and various parameters of the atrium altered.
Jones, Ken
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Evaluation of Industrial Hemp Cultivar and Biochar Rate to Remediate Heavy-Metal-Contaminated Soil from the Tar Creek Superfund Site, USA

Soil Systems
Soil contamination by cadmium (Cd), lead (Pb), and zinc (Zn) at the Tar Creek superfund site in northeast Oklahoma, United States, remains a threat to the environment and local ecosystem. Phytoremediation with industrial hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) and the
Dietrich V. Thurston, Kristofor R. Brye, David M. Miller, Philip A. Moore, Donald M. Johnson, Mike Richardson   +5 more
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