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Presentation as part of workshop on Environmental Justice and Equity, Human Health Risk Assessment, and Modeling for the risk assessment, risk modeling, and regulatory communities.&nbsp; Presentation includes discussion of EPA context for considering cumulative impacts and exampl...

Health Impact Assessments (HIAs) are a systematic process to assess the potential positive and negative impacts of a program, policy, or decision, and provides strategies to maximize benefits and minimize burdens. A rapid HIA, an abbreviated form of HIA, was undertaken by the EPA...

Overview of the CAIF report.&nbsp;The Wildland Fire Leadership Council (WFLC) requested that EPA, in collaboration with scientific staff in the U.S. Forest Service (USFS), the Department of the Interior (DOI) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), conduct ...

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are short, non-coding RNAs whose primary known function is to regulate the transcription and translation of messenger RNA. Targeting occurs through sequence specificity; however, this interaction is not limited to a single gene. Rather, a particular miRNA can r...

Understanding the formation, transport, and health impact of wildland fire smoke is a complex task. Emerging methods to characterize air quality - including miniaturized air quality sensors, fusion of multiple data types (e.g., satellite remote sensing data, models), and interact...

Exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) is associated with asthma development as well as asthma exacerbation in children. PM2.5&nbsp;can be directly emitted or can form in the atmosphere from pollutant precursors. PM2.5&nbsp;emitted and formed in the atmosphere is influenced ...

In January 2020, the Wildland Fire Leadership Council (WFLC) requested that EPA, in collaboration with scientific staff in the U.S. Forest Service (USFS), the Department of the Interior (DOI) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), conduct an assessment ...

Using examples from EPA Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) Toxicologic Reviews, this presentation will explore how consistent and complete reporting of epidemiology study methods and findings increases the utility of epidemiologic evidence to regulatory bodies that assess ...

Health assessments conducted by government and international agencies play a critical role in the regulation and public awareness of harmful chemical, physical, biological, and other exposures. These assessments rely on review (increasingly systematic) of published primary resear...

Industrial producers and users of per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) are a major source of chemical contamination to nearby communities due to historical releases of legacy PFAS. Following the general phase-out of legacy PFAS such as PFOA/PFOS, industrial usage has ...

In the decades since the founding of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) progress has been made in cleaning up the environments in which Americans live, work and play. However, many communities continue to suffer the impacts of pollution, particularly low-income and racial ...

USEPA drafted Guidelines for Cumulative Risk Assessment Planning and Problem Formulation. The Guidelines lay the foundation for considering current and anticipated future cumulative risk analytical methods and provides guidelines for when such assessments are appropriate. They pr...

Core principles of translational approaches in science, including &ldquo;collaboration, engagement, communication, process, and decision framing&rdquo; (Enquist et al. 2017) strongly align with principles of successful ecosystem restoration practitioners. Connecting the benefits ...

The U.S. EPA conducted a health impact assessment (HIA) of proposed sanitary code changes regarding individual sewerage systems (ISS) in Suffolk County, New York. ISS, including onsite sewage disposal systems (OSDS; i.e., cesspools) and septic tank-leaching pool systems (“convent...

Studies of human exposure to petrochemical products reported associations with higher risk of hematopoietic cancer. However, the risk of leukemia for individual living close to petrochemical industrial complexes (PIC) remained unknown and controversial. This study aimed to estima...

Modern urban life style is associated with chronic stress, insufficient physical activity and exposure to anthropogenic environmental hazards. Urban green space, such as parks, playgrounds, and residential greenery, can promote mental and physical health and reduce morbidity and ...

Potentially harmful freshwater algal blooms of cyanobacteria (CHAB) are increasingly reported among US surface waters. Clear Lake in Lake County, CA is regularly impacted by CHABs during the spring through fall. As part of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)&rsquo;s effo...

Background: Sanitary sewer overflows (SSOs) occur when untreated sewage is discharged into water sources before reaching the treatment facility, potentially contaminating the water source with gastrointestinal pathogens. Objectives: The objective of this paper is to assess associ...

EPA conducted a project in the Proctor Creek communities of Atlanta, GA to evaluate the expansion of green infrastructure and other low-impact development techniques throughout the watershed. This effort has grown out of a previous Health Impact Assessment (HIA), &ldquo;Proctor C...

This document was created to highlight the many ways that the U.S. EPA EnviroAtlas suite of ecosystem services tools can be used to aid in the Health Impact Assessment (HIA) process. Ecosystems provide numerous services and benefits to individuals, communities, businesses, and ot...

Most EIA programs around the world require the consideration of human health impacts. Yet relatively few EIA documents adequately address those impacts. This article examines how, why, and to what extent health impacts are analyzed in environmental impact assessments in the U.S. ...

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has conducted an HIA at the German Gerena Community School in Springfield, MA. HIA is a six-step systematic process that uses an array of data sources, analytic methods and stakeholder input to determine the potential health effects of...

There is mounting evidence linking land development and transportation investments with physical activity and diet as health behaviors important for chronic disease prevention. In addition, natural elements within an urban setting provide many physical and mental health benefits....

During manufacturing and use of chemical substances, the estimation of releases is critical for environmental and human health impact evaluations. Human health impacts, acidification, smog, and many other environmental impacts are directly related to chemical releases. For exam...

Per- and polyfluoro alkyl substances (PFAS) are an environmentally persistent and high interest class of chemical pollutants with a rapidly expanding roster. High resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS) has been a workhorse technique supporting non-targeted approaches to sample analy...