Duke Superfund in the News

Safety Standards and Weighing Risks

By Margaret Morales & Gretchen Kroeger In my last post I wrote about the Stockholm Convention Treaty for the international ...

Home Invaders: Are flame retardants fattening us up and harming our bones?

Join us for this webinar organized by CHE and Boston University SRP Oct 9, 2014 Background Information/Resources CHE Blog RSVP ...

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 ...