Jim Morris
Executive Director at Public Health Watch
Executive director, Public Health Watch (@pubhealthwatch)
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2 months ago |
publichealthwatch.org | Jim Morris
The California Department of Public Health has unveiled an online dashboard that tracks cases of the lung disease silicosis among fabricators of artificial-stone countertops in the state. The dashboard, to be updated weekly, includes a running tally of cases (247 as of February 7) and deaths (15), geographic distribution of cases, median age at diagnosis and other data.
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Jan 8, 2025 |
publichealthwatch.org | Jim Morris
Over the past half-century, childhood cancer in the United States is up 35 percent. Pediatric asthma has tripled. And pediatric obesity has quadrupled. Why? An article by some of the world’s top health researchers published Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine points a finger at the estimated 350,000 synthetic chemicals and plastics that permeate the planet. “Production has expanded 50-fold since 1950, is currently increasing by about 3% per year, and is projected to triple by 2050.
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Dec 18, 2024 |
insideclimatenews.org | Jim Morris |Emyle Watkins
This story was originally published by Public Health Watch and WBFO. Recent computer modeling shows that the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company’s chemical plant in Niagara Falls, New York, is releasing a bladder carcinogen into nearby neighborhoods at levels up to seven times the state’s safety guideline.
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Sep 19, 2024 |
nationalobserver.com | Andy Kubrin |Jim Morris |Emyle Watkins
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. This story is a collaboration between Public Health Watch, WBFO and Inside Climate News. For at least 15 years, a Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. chemical plant in Niagara Falls, New York, has been sending a pollutant that causes bladder cancer into the air at levels 1,000 percent higher than what state regulators nowconsider safe for the public to breathe, documents show.
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Sep 18, 2024 |
nynow.wmht.org | Jim Morris |Emyle Watkins
This story is a collaboration between Public Health Watch, WBFO and Inside Climate News. For at least 15 years, a Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. chemical plant in Niagara Falls, New York, has been sending a pollutant that causes bladder cancer into the air at levels 1,000 percent higher than what state regulators nowconsider safe for the public to breathe, documents show.
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