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Background and Purpose:  The United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) is heavily invested in developing higher-throughput, lower-cost New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) to identify potential hazards of thousands of environmental chemicals with unknown impacts to...

While dry-bulb temperature remains a familiar method for communicating heat hazards, metrics tailored to human health concerns – such as heat index and wet bulb globe temperature – are more holistic assessments of extreme temperature events’ potential for heat-r...

Cumulative impacts are the result of generations of programs, policies, and decisions that have concentrated people and pollution into the same places. Many methds are avaialble to characterize impacts, such as data mining, modeling, GIS mapping, sensor measurements, and indexes/...

A Health Impact Assessment was conducted for the Southwest Main Corridor area of Rockford, IL in collaboration wiht City planning officials, EPA Region 5, EPA Office of Research and Development, and EPA Office of Brownfields and Land Revitalization. Results indicated that interve...

What happens when you start an HIA, but part way into the effort you encounter some unforeseen road blocks (cue those pesky funding and resource constraints)? You take the road less traveled and turn the HIA into a Story Map! Navigating this new road, we were able to incorporate ...

In the evaluation and analysis of candidate process and product designs, several studies are performed including parametric and topological optimization to select operating conditions, raw materials, types of utilities, equipment, and specific flowsheet configurations based on de...

The Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement (GLWQA) identifies degradation of aesthetics as one of the beneficial uses of the ecosystem that should be restored. Degraded aesthetics, such as odors and debris, can leave a negative impact on the local community through decreased recreat...

This presentation includes three case studies related to citizen science, translational science, and land revitalization. It presents result of the studies and how they applied data and information to local-scale environmental health decision-making. The steps and elements of Hea...

Toxicology is traditionally divided between human and eco-toxicology. In the shared pursuit of environmental health, this separation does not account for discoveries made in the comparative studies of animal genomes. Here, we provide evidence on the feasibility of understanding t...

A health impact assessment (HIA) is a systematic process that uses data, analytical methods, and input from stakeholders to determine the potential effects of a proposed policy, plan, program, or project on the health of a population. The HIA examines who will be impacted and pro...

Continuous emissions monitor systems (CEMS) measure emissions and heat output at stationary points sources. Measured hourly data from the CEMS at electricity generating units (EGUs) are provided on the Clean Air Markets Program Data (CAMPD) data site. In 2022 CAMPD began providin...

Synthetic chemicals with endocrine disrupting properties are pervasive in the environment and are present in the bodies of humans and wildlife. As thyroid hormones (THs) control normal brain development, and maternal hypothyroxinemia is associated with neurological impairments in...

Environmental Justice (EJ) impact assessments and analyses are needed which combine software, databases, and environmental health indicators and population exposure considerations at the community level, to aid decision-makers in addressing cumulative impacts for permitting actio...

Increased precipitation due to climate change poses significant challenges in urbanized tropical coastal systems. Our study system, the San Juan Bay Estuary (SJBE), located in northeast Puerto Rico, is no exception. This ecosystem includes five lagoons interconnected by channels,...

The presentation describes the public health impact of particulate matter (PM 2.5) exposures, the strategies to minimize risk, and knowledge gaps that when filled, will help health officials better protect cardiovascular health. The presentation highlights resources available for...

Introduction Exposure to ambient nitrogen dioxide (NO2) is associated with adverse respiratory and cardiovascular outcomes. Supplementation of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) has shown health benefits against exposure to air pollution. Hypothesis Dietary omega-3 PUFA i...

Onsite non-potable water systems (ONWS) collect and treat locally available source waters (e.g., wastewater, graywater, stormwater, and roof runoff) for end uses such as toilet flushing and irrigation. Quantitative microbial risk assessment has been used to develop pathogen log-r...

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 ...

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 ...

California residents have experienced increasing frequency of catastrophic wildfires over the last decade, threatening community security, health, and safety.  In recognizing this existential threat, the state of California is dramatically increasing its use of prescribed fi...

Health Impact Assessment (HIA) provides methods for considering community environmental and public health during brownfields and land revitalization projects. This presentation draws from a number of known concerns in Rockford and applies HIA health pathways to identify potential...

Environmental justice is often seen as an opportunity for outreach and education but it can also be used to help focus resources and guide decisions for brownfields projects. This work presents approaches for how to apply EJ to brownfields projects and can help brownfields practi...

Health Impact Assessment (HIA) is a six-step process to identify and analyze potential health impacts related to a project, program, or policy decision. HIA assesses potential impacts and develops impact management strategies to consider prior to project implementation. HIA has s...

Tropical, urban estuaries are understudied and demand more research by those in the ecological scientific community. Since 2015 we have conducted research in the San Juan Bay Estuary (SJBE) in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Located in the middle of the SJBE is the Caño Mart&iacute...

Update presentation to the National Blue Ribbon Commission for Onsite Non-potable Water Systems (NBRC) describing new pathogen log-reduction targets (LRTs) for onsite water reuse.  The updated draft LRTs reflect the state-of-the-science on source water pathogen characterizat...