Duke Superfund in the News

Proposed changes to EPA’s agricultural Worker Protection Standard

By Margaret Morales In my last post I wrote about some of the health risks of pesticide exposure. The risk ...

Organophosphate pesticides and autism

By Margaret Morales The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences published a report this week linking prenatal exposure to organophosphate ...

The future of furniture’s secret ingredients

By Eileen Thorsos The tag under my hotel room’s desk chair In my hotel room in Atlanta, the tag under ...

Give a hoot! Don’t pollute.

By Gretchen Kroeger (glk@duke.edu) If you’re old enough, you may remember the US Forest Service’s campaign from the 70’s and ...

Toxins and the brain

By Gretchen Kroeger A quick search for news stories on the topics of ADHD or learning and behavioral impairments will ...

Exxon-Valdez 25 years later

By Savannah Volkoff Image source: Wikipedia (click image to go to source) Last week marked the 25th anniversary of the ...