For the Duke Environment Magazine Spring 2020 issue on the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, Duke Superfund Deputy Director Heather Stapleton, and Kate Hoffman, reflects on the regulation of chemicals, the science driving changing laws, and efforts by the public to change how we monitor and use chemicals in everyday life.
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By Margaret Morales & Gretchen Kroeger In my last post I wrote about the Stockholm Convention Treaty for the international […]
By Margaret Morales The 2001 Stockholm Convention was convened to draft a global treaty for the regulation of persistent organic […]
The tale of why our furniture is full of flame retardants, and how those rules may be changing. By Noelle […]
The tale of why our furniture is full of flame retardants, and how those rules may be changing. Over the […]
Senator Lautenberg (D-NJ) and Senator Vitter (R-LA) just announced they’ve co-sponsored a new bill, the Chemical Safety Improvement Act […]
One of our research projects, Project 2, studies how several halogenated flame retardants can disrupt the thyroid system, which affects […]
Last week, we wrote about the EPA’s announcement to conduct a risk assessment of 23 chemicals. Most of the chemicals […]
In a press release a week and a half ago, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that in 2013 […]