The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...
Artisanal lead mining in Nigeria is responsible for airborne lead exposures that are 10 times the U.S. Permissible Exposure Limit according to a study published today. This is the first study to ...
To see the toxic legacy of lead mining in the US and understand the complicated task of cleaning it up, all one has to do is look at Richard Rankin’s backyard in Missouri. The septic system of his ...
The Superfund program of the US Environmental Protection Agency was created in the 1980s to address human-health and environmental risks posed by abandoned or uncontrolled hazardous-waste sites. This ...
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