Wild rice is important the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa for mental, physical, and spiritual health reasons. For that reason, the Band has undertaken a Health Impact Assessment (HIA) to characterize the impacts of potential wild rice loss if the Minnesota Pollution C...

NCER’s environmental health research funding to academic institutions and non-profit entities have supported EPA’s mission to protect human health and the environment, while also supporting capacity-building in communities in understanding and mitigating environmental...

The webinar was requested by the National Association of County and City Heath Officials. From their website, The National Association of County Health Officials (NACHO) was founded in 1965. In early 1984, the organization experienced remarkable growth in membership and the org...

11/21/2017 Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (ANTHC) will host a webinar and teleconference for LEO Network Participants (LEO is a network of local observers and topic experts who share knowledge about unusual animal, environment and weather events). With LEO you can connect...

Racial and ethnic minority communities, including American Indian and Alaska Natives, have been disproportionately impacted by environmental pollution and contamination. This includes siting and location of point sources of pollution, legacies of contamination of drinking and re...

EPA announced the availability of the final report, <i>Metabolically Derived Human Ventilation Rates: A Revised Approach Based Upon Oxygen Consumption Rates</i>. This report provides a revised approach for calculating an individual's ventilation rate directly from their oxygen c...

This report culminates two years of work—preceded by years of discussion—to characterize the current and heritage fish consumption rates and fishing-related activities of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes. The report contains three volumes in one document. Volume I is concerned with h...

<p> Tribal-specific EPHIs are necessary because current U.S. government public health regulations and policies are based on a position that views risks and impacts as objective measures of dose-response assessments and physiological morbidity or mortality outcomes but does not ...

Harvey, James, David Lawes, Vincent Cooke and Tom Heitmuller. In press. Probabilistic Monitoring for Tribal Aquatic Resources: EPA's National Coastal Assessment Tribal Training (Abstract). To be presented at the Monitoring Science and Technology Symposium, 20-24 September 2004, D...

Tribes are sovereign and independent nations, many have treaty-reserved rights to hunt, fish and gather outside the borders of their reservation lands. Further, the U.S. government has a trust responsibility (recently re-affirmed by President George Bush through Executive Order: ...