This study examined toxics use reduction measurement among metal intensive manufacturers (SIC 34-39) located in Massachusetts. Of the 110 study fms chosen from a stratified random sample, less than half said they documented and measured their toxics use reduction progress. During on-site visits with twenty-eight of these fms, roughly half measured their progress accurately. Toxics use reduction...

Abstract Despite longstanding concerns about environmental injustice in Louisiana’s industrialized communities, including the area known as Cancer Alley, there is a lack of health research this state. This gap has direct consequences for residents neighborhoods because state regulators have cited evidence adverse outcomes when making industrial permitting decisions. We investigated how cancer i...

The total role that the environment plays in contributing to premature death and disability remains sketchy, but researchers working with the World Health Organization (WHO) continue to flesh out the details. Now four WHO researchers have estimated the global burden of certain toxic substances for which adequate data are available. They have calculated that in 2004 2 at least 8.3% of all preven...

This article summarizes the evidence for environmental toxic exposures contributing to cancers in early life, focusing on the most common cancer sites in this age group. It provides examples of widespread avoidable exposures to human carcinogens through air, water, and food and then describes recent examples of successful initiatives to reduce exposure to chemicals linked to these cancer sites,...

Over the last decade, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been developing, refining, and updating the National Toxics Inventory (NTI), a nationwide emissions inventory of 188 compounds and classes of compounds that are listed as hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) under the federal Clean Air Act. One of these compounds is 4, 4’-methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI), which is widely u...