“Whatever is in the reactor water can evaporate along with the water,” said Dr. Petros Koutrakis, professor of environmental sciences at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health. “The idea that only water comes out is wrong.”
Brita Lundberg
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Why is the US locking down for climate change?
AMERICANS REALLY hated locking down for COVID-19, so why does the US keep locking down for climate change? Sometimes we are locked in, due to wildfire smoke and heat; and sometimes we are locked out, with homes leveled due to flooding and fire; but the bottom line is–we keep locking down. Our children aren’t playing […]
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The term ‘turf’ is misleading
MOUNTAINS OF OLD truck tires dotting the US countryside used to be a common sight, but no longer. Companies have found a lucrative new use for old tires: grinding them up and re-marketing them as “artificial turf” for children’s athletic fields. The arguments in favor of plastic turf initially appear compelling. It’s a way to […]
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Braintree chemical fire leaves behind a lot of questions
COMMUNITY HEALTH can be a sleepy subject – unless, perhaps, it is your own community that is under fire. Or on fire, as in the case of Braintree, where a conflagration in February at Clean Harbors, the largest hazardous waste disposal facility in New England, incinerated three trailers containing a slurry of toxic materials. In […]
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Pollution inequality must stop; enforce roadmap law
MASSACHUSETTS IS HOME to some of the greatest inequalities in pollution in the nation. According to Northeastern Professor Daniel Faber, Boston ranks fourth for disparities in air pollution and Massachusetts ranks in the top three states in the country for locating hazardous waste facilities next to the elderly and people living in poverty. Moreover, he […]
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Why do we accept asthma with our ‘natural’ gas?
TAKE A DEEP breath. And exhale. Most of us don’t think about breathing. But that is not the case for one in eight children in the Commonwealth who have asthma. According to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation, Boston and Springfield are in the top 20 so-called “asthma capitals” in the US. Asthma is one of […]
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Physicians critique National Grid official’s stance
A clarifiation has been made to this op-ed making clear that National Grid does not have an ownership stake in the Weymouth compressor station. More detail is at the end of the op-ed. MARCY REED’S February 15 commentary, “Hunger and the Clean Energy Transition,” is misleading, disingenuous, and self-serving. Reed, who is the Massachusetts president […]