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Sensemaking, stakeholder discord, and long-term risk communication at a US Superfund site. [PDF]
Rev Environ Health, 2017 AbstractIntroduction:Risk communication can help reduce exposures to environmental contaminants, mitigate negative health outcomes, and inform community-based decisions about hazardous waste sites. While communication best practices have long guided such efforts, little research has examined unintended consequences arising from such guidelines.
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Equitable cleanup of Superfund sites leaving no U.S. community behind [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsSuperfund sites are recognized as the most contaminated locations across the U.S. Here we introduce two metrics: (i) the disparity percentage, which quantifies the overrepresentation of vulnerable populations in proximity to Superfund sites, and (ii) the
Mohammed Azhar +4 more
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The Search for Potential Remediation Strategies and Sustainable Alternatives for Safe use of US EPA Superfund Sites [PDF]
Trends in Ecological and Indoor Environmental EngineeringBackground: Environmental contamination from US EPA Superfund sites has long posed a serious threat to public health and environmental sustainability.
Anyiam Ngozi Donald +2 more
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Association between residence at birth and addiction service utilization: a spatial analysis of the Massachusetts birth record cohort [PDF]
Frontiers in EpidemiologyIntroductionSubstance use disorders impact a significant portion of the US population. Exposure to neighborhood environment early in life may contribute to disparities in policing, health outcomes and access to treatment for substance use disorders ...
Yingjing Xia +2 more
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Big-Data Analysis and Machine Learning Based on Oil Pollution Remediation Cases from CERCLA Database
Energies, 2022 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Superfund—the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) database—has collected and built an open-source database based on nearly 2000 US soil remediation cases since ...
Hangyu Li +6 more
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Social Sciences and Humanities Open, 2021 Objective: Investigate geographical variations in brain/central nervous system (CNS) cancer incidence and mortality, and test associations between covariates and brain/CNS cancer for the years 2000–2014 in the contiguous USA.
Raid W. Amin +2 more
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Addressing systemic problems with exposure assessments to protect the public’s health
Environmental Health, 2023 Background Understanding, characterizing, and quantifying human exposures to environmental chemicals is critical to protect public health. Exposure assessments are key to determining risks to the general population and for specific subpopulations given ...
Laura N. Vandenberg +13 more
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Earth's Future, 2023 Sea‐level rise (SLR) will cause coastal groundwater to rise in many coastal urban environments. Inundation of contaminated soils by groundwater rise (GWR) will alter the physical, biological, and geochemical conditions that influence the fate and ...
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Correction: The Minderoo-Monaco Commission on Plastics and Human Health
Annals of Global Health, 2023 This article details a correction to: Landrigan PJ, Raps H, Cropper M, et al. The Minderoo-Monaco Commission on Plastics and Human Health. Annals of Global Health. 2023; 89(1): 23. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/aogh.4056.
Philip J. Landrigan +47 more
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