Healthier housing, rooted in social justice
MỹDzung Chu and other members of Dorchester Not for Sale share public comments at a Boston Planning and Redevelopment Agency community hearing
MỹDzung Chu, PhD ’20, explores the health impacts of housing inequities
October 28, 2o2o – As a resident of Boston’s diverse, working-class Dorchester neighborhood, MỹDzung Chu has learned first-hand, through her work with a local advocacy group focused on housing issues, about the shortage of affordable quality housing, about her neighbors’ fears of being displaced by new developments, and about how some landlords ignore necessary repairs perhaps to drive tenants out in order to resell or re-lease the property for higher profit.
by Contributor on Saturday January 23 2021
Photo from 100 Acre Wood near Rossland, by Sara Golling
Researchers say proforestation policies are the fastest and most effective way to draw excess CO2 out of the atmosphere.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY, Mass. Bob Leverett walked away from the trunk, looking up through the canopy, trying to get eyes on the crown.
He crushed the thick pine needle duff with each step, while a light drizzle tapped on the leaves above him, and birds called from a distance. Then he saw it, the top of the tree, and measured its height with a small instrument he raised to his eye. He would combine this measurement with others to calculate the mass of the tree, a monolithic white pine in western Massachusetts. Once he found the mass, he could approximate how much carbon it contained, carbon the tree had been pulling out of the atmosphere, in the form of carbon dioxide, for well over 100 years.
The FDA Ignores The Law When Approving New Chemical Additives To Food
Environmental Health News
An investigation finds the U.S. Food and Drug Administration s (FDA) is not accounting for the cumulative health effect of chemicals as required by law. Such neglect leaves consumers at higher risk for chronic diseases.
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The agency is required to review the safety of classes of chemicals rather than individual chemicals. Using the class approach, multiple chemicals adversely affecting the same organ or system (such as the immune, endocrine, or nervous systems) are evaluated together and a safe consumption level is determined for the class. This approach prevents the intentional new or expanded uses of chemical additives that increase chronic disease and, when coupled with a systematic review of prior decisions, results in health risk reduction. Instead, the agency has consistently reviewed ind
the natural gas storage report from the EIA for the week ending December 4th indicated that the quantity of natural gas held in underground storage in the US decreased by 91 billion cubic feet to 3,848 billion cubic feet by the end of the week, which left our gas supplies 309 billion cubic feet, or 8.7% higher than the 3,539 billion cubic feet that were in storage on December 4th of last year, and 260 billion cubic feet, or 7.2% above the five-year average of 3,588 billion cubic feet of natural gas that have been in storage as of the 4th of December in recent years..the 91 billion cubic feet that were drawn out of US natural gas storage this week was higher than the average forecast from an S&P Global Platts survey of analysts who expected a 78 billion cubic foot withdrawal, and was also much higher than the average withdrawal of 61 billion cubic feet of natural gas that are typically pulled out of natural gas storage during the same week over the past 5 years, and the 57 billion cub