Tag: DuPont
Bloodletting/Blood-lead-ing
It’s happening again. Lead poisoning from historic contamination, children’s lives irreparably harmed — in a Midwestern low-income community overseen by the same EPA office that presided over the Flint lead …
Public Health Advisory: On Water and Waste
Because he is a physician working in Vermont, yesterday my husband received a public health advisory from the state Department of Health, concerning PFOA in private drinking water wells in …
On Knowing and Not Knowing
I had a number of cases over the course of my brief regulatory career that involved environmental atrocities. A metal finishing facility, for instance, that had once discharged its acidic …
A Walk in Hoosick Falls
Forsaken storefronts line the street, mostly empty but for my reflection in the windows. A few merchants remain — a children’s resale shop, a hair salon — glimpses of pride …
Moral Hazard: It’s More than Economics, Stupid
I have spent much of my adult life trying to understand the science behind environmental issues. Like the cause-and-effect relationship between industrial effluent outfalls and subsurface contamination. Why, for example, …
The Myth of Blaming Pandora
Chemicals are in the news again. Earlier this month, the New York Times reported on new concerns regarding the health effects of perfluorinated chemicals (PFCs) — a class of chemicals …
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