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Pure Earth’s Evolution Over 25 Years: A Q&A with Executive Director Drew McCartor 

Pure Earth’s Evolution Over 25 Years: A Q&A with Executive Director Drew McCartor 

Jul 12 , 2024

Pure Earth's Evolution Over 25 Years: A Q&A with Executive Director Drew McCartor  To commemorate our efforts to solve pollution over 25 years, we sat down with Executive Director Drew McCartor to hear about Pure Earth’s journey from a small.

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Pure Earth Celebrates Twenty-Five Years of Solving Pollution

Pure Earth Celebrates Twenty-Five Years of Solving Pollution

Jun 04 , 2024

Pure Earth Celebrates Twenty-Five Years of Solving Pollution Join us in taking a look at where we’ve been, and where we’re headed A lot has changed since Australian environmental engineer Richard Fuller founded Pure Earth in 1999, then called Blacksmith.

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Thank You, Sen. Patrick Leahy, for Your Support and Actions To Curtail Global Lead Pollution

Thank You, Sen. Patrick Leahy, for Your Support and Actions To Curtail Global Lead Pollution

Dec 15 , 2022

Below is our letter to the editor published in Vermont's Brattleboro Reformer on Dec. 13, and in the Bennington Banner on Dec. 14, 2022. Dear Editor: We would like to publicly thank Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy for his long-standing and.

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Ghana: Pure Earth School Clubs in Ghana: Where Children Learn about Pollution to Safeguard Their Future

Ghana: Pure Earth School Clubs in Ghana: Where Children Learn about Pollution to Safeguard Their Future

Aug 01 , 2022

The Pure Earth Club is a school club comprised of students who are being taught and nurtured to love their environment and to protect it through the reduction of pollution, not only by words but by action. They are supervised.

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Republic of Georgia: Solving the Mystery of Widespread Lead Poisoning in Georgian Children

Republic of Georgia: Solving the Mystery of Widespread Lead Poisoning in Georgian Children

May 03 , 2022

In 2019, the Republic of Georgia faced a childhood lead poisoning crisis.  A national survey had revealed that 41% of children ages 2-7 in the country had blood lead levels at or above 5 μg/dL (the level at which the.

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Pure Earth, USC and Macquarie University Publish Landmark Lead Study in The Lancet Planetary Health Journal

Pure Earth, USC and Macquarie University Publish Landmark Lead Study in The Lancet Planetary Health Journal

Mar 12 , 2021

The March 2021 issue of The Lancet Planetary Health journal includes an important paper that supports Pure Earth’s previous publications asserting the extent of the childhood lead poisoning crisis in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The paper, Blood lead levels.

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