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- Circle of Women: Creating Safe Spaces For Innovation And Health With Traditional Potters In Mexico February 22, 2021
- Stopping Dangerous Levels of Heavy Metals in Baby Food February 11, 2021
- A Year Like No Other – Looking Back and Beyond 2020 January 21, 2021
- The Ocean Pollution-Berg December 7, 2020
- An Amazonian Mining Community Fulfilling its Obligation to the Rainforest November 3, 2020
- Partnering To Solve A Global Childhood Menace: Lead August 24, 2020
- Pure Earth Collaborates On Jewelry Collection To Fight Pollution June 16, 2020
- Helping Communities Hard Hit By COVID-19 May 26, 2020
- A Mother’s Story: Hope in Kathgora, Bangladesh May 7, 2020
- N95 Masks Used For Toxic Pollution Cleanup Donated To Hospitals Amidst Pandemic April 6, 2020
- “Quarantine” Q&A Webinars Tap Pure Earth’s Global Network Of Public Health Experts April 6, 2020
- We Will Get Through This Together – Our Global Team Responds To The Pandemic March 26, 2020
- How Are You Doing? Statement from Pure Earth President Richard Fuller March 26, 2020
- Activating Communities To Solve Pollution March 12, 2020
- Pure Earth’s Head of Research Co-Writes Textbook On Global Environmental Health March 5, 2020
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Lead Exposure Linked to 412,000 Deaths in US; On Par With Tobacco
An important new paper from Dr. Bruce Lanphear, a member of the Pure Earth Leadership Council, and a Commissioner on The Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health, reveals that cardiovascular impacts of lead are under-estimated by a factor of 10. While stunning, this revelation did … Continue reading
Posted in Lead, Uncategorized
Tagged heart disease, lead, lead poisoning, lead pollution, TSIP, ULAB, World's Worst Polluted Places report
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“Sensationalist” claim about tanneries and pollution
We were recently criticized by an industry group of leather manufacturers for listing tannery operations #5 on the 2011 list of world’s worst toxic pollution problems. The group called our report’s assertions “sensationalist and not appropriate.” (Read our response in … Continue reading
Pollution: Top Six Toxic Threats
My last post pointed to new studies that indicate chronic mercury exposure in the U.S. has risen dramatically. In fact, mercury is identified as one of the Top Six Toxic Threats in Blacksmith Institute’s most recent report, which draws on … Continue reading
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Tagged blacksmith institute, lead pollution, mercury poisoning, Pollution Stories, toxic mercury, toxic pollution, World's Worst Polluted Places report
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Lessons from the past for Copenhagen
For the next two weeks, the eyes of the world will be on Copenhagen, where leaders of some 200 countries have gathered to try to find some kind of consensus on tackling the problem of climate change. “Unless the world can … Continue reading
Posted in Projects/Solutions, Uncategorized
Tagged chemical weapons, climate change, Copenhagen, global treaties, Leaded Gas, Pollution Stories, World's Worst Polluted Places report
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Another Chernobyl?
Recently, I’ve been working to avert a catastrophe at the Gorlovka chemical plant in the Ukraine, which we reported on in Blacksmith’s July newsletter as an “accident waiting to happen. ” This town has an abandoned munitions warehouse just on the outskirts … Continue reading
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Tagged chemical weapons, chernobyl, World's Worst Polluted Places report
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