The problem of toxic lead in used consumer products is extremely widespread and present at levels that are far beyond safe limits, researchers conclude in a new study.
Category: Public Health
Oregon State alumni are health navigators, helping Lincoln School students and their families get health insurance through Healthy Kids, an expansion of the Oregon Health Plan.
The study conducted is the first to use both depression and low self-esteem as outcomes with a nationally representative sample of adolescents.
Anna Harding has concerns about environmental exposures to indigenous populations, and those have led her to become an advocate for extra protection for tribes, working with federal agencies to clean up sites and protect tribal lands.
“We are making changes, but resistance is still there. We aren’t just changing laws…we’re changing a culture.”
“It’s great to be ‘Green’, but I think that term means too many things to too many people. In some places it’s downright derogatory,” says Dustin who was recently named environmental sustainability coordinator for the City of Sunnyvale.