Joseph Allen
@j_g_allen
Assoc Prof @HarvardChanSPH; Lancet @CommissionCOVID (Chair Task Force on Safe Work/School/Travel); Coauthor of HEALTHY BUILDINGS @Harvard_Press; WaPo, NYT, HBR
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“Two North American cities are moving forward with the purchase of firefighting gear that has no intentionally added PFAS, a key development for manufacturers who have faced legal liability over the presence of the #foreverchemicals in their equipment.” news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-an…
I’m still not sure what to do with ForeverChemicals.com. Open to ideas on what would be most useful/helpful/interesting. So far I’ve just been redirecting traffic to different articles. #ForeverChemicals
“The E.P.A. calculated the health benefits of the new regulation at about $1.5 billion annually from reductions in cancer, heart attacks and strokes and birth complications.” #ForeverChemicals nytimes.com/2024/04/10/cli…
(another) big public health win: 'This is the first time the agency has set enforceable limits on PFAS in drinking water.' More to do, of course, but this gets the ball rolling.
The beginning of the end of #ForeverChemicals
npr.org/sections/healt…
#ForeverChemicals . A new study of more than 45,000 water samples around the world found that about 31% of groundwater samples tested that weren’t near any obvious source of contamination had PFAS levels **considered harmful to human health**
nytimes.com/2024/04/08/cli…