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Members of the Puente Jobos community in Puerto Rico shared with EPA concerns they have about particulate matter in their community and whether the location of the regulatory air monitoring site represents the community's exposure. EPA developed a research study design that invol...

Members of the Puente Jobos community in Puerto Rico shared with EPA concerns they have about&nbsp;particulate matter in their community and whether the location of the regulatory air monitoring site&nbsp;represents the community's exposure. EPA developed a research study design ...

Background:&nbsp; Restoration efforts have led to the return of anadromous fish, a potential source of food for the Penobscot Indian Nation, to the previously dammed Penobscot River, Maine.&nbsp; Objective:&nbsp; U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in collaboration with t...

Impoverished and under-served communities are often exposed to the worst environmental and climate hazards. Identifying these communities and building their resilience capacity to withstand such hazards is a vital justice aspect of environmental management. Building community res...

Collocation of air quality sensors at existing regulatory air monitoring sites allows sensor data comparison against quality-assured reference data and is a cost-effective method for understanding the performance of lower-cost air sensors. In some cases, collocations can allow fo...

This is a two-page description of efforts undertaken from Oct 2022-Sept 2023 to scope HERA 401.3.3. It frames the issues we are addressing, the main research questions, activities of the core team and cross-EPA working group, challenges, and future activities.

Coastal areas are important places to live, work, play, and more. They are areas with high social and economic value, but also with considerable commercial and private uses which lead to conflicts, disproportionately affected communities, and complex environmental decision making...

This class lecture gives two examples of how stable isotopes can be used to better understand nutrient dynamics in coastal marine systems. I give examples from my dissertation research on Egypt's Nile Delta and from our ongoing work in the San Juan Bay Ecosystem in Puerto Rico.

In this study, proportional response addition (Prop-RA), a model for predicting response from chemical mixture exposure, is demonstrated and evaluated by statistically analyzing data on all possible binary combinations of the four regulated trihalomethanes (THMs). These THMs were...

Environmental justice seeks to affirm individual&rsquo;s rights to a healthy environment within communities that are subjected to a disproportionate burden of environmental hazard. These communities often experience higher levels of chronic stress and reduced quality of life, whi...

EPA has developed a suite of targeted analytical methods for measurement of PFAS in waters, soils, sediments and biosolids for regulatory and research applications. Quantification at sub part per trillion levels is possible with capable instrumentation, by selection of an appropr...

Federal agencies are increasing efforts to provide support to local communities for climate adaptation and hazard resilience. This involves engaging communities using approaches to understand and address problems holistically, particularly where equity and environmental justice a...

As the risks of climate change impacts become more apparent and more severe, communities need ways to plan, adapt, and transform in order to increase resilience. Disasters cause widely disparate impacts on communities and populations with differential vulnerability, making necess...

Background:Atopic dermatitis (AD) is an inflammatory skin disease caused by allergen exposures and estimated to affect &sim;20% of children. Children in urban areas have a higher prevalence of AD compared with those living outside of urban areas. AD is believed to lead to asthma ...

These workshops will be platform to present recent research at EPA as it relates to best practices in site characterization, sample analysis, and suitable treatment technologies for mining, persistent organic pollutants, and microplastics. The first presentation will be expanding...

Climate scenarios predict more frequent and longer-lasting heatwaves alongside increased ambient particulate levels from widespread wildfires. These conditions are predicted to exacerbate cardiometabolic disorders, especially in vulnerable populations. We hypothesized that stress...

This presentation provides educational materials, case studies, and tools to support the implementation of the sustainability principles identified in the September 29, 2023 Memorandum entitled &quot;Incorporating Sustainability Principles in Cleanup Enforcement Actions Under the...

Communities located in near-road environments experience elevated levels of traffic-related air pollution. Near-road air pollution is a major public health concern, and an environmental justice issue. Roadside green infrastructure such as trees, hedges, and bushes may help reduce...

Socially isolated individuals and communities often face psychosocial stressors in combination with exposure to high levels of air pollutants. Social isolation (SI) has been considered a risk factor for neuropsychiatric conditions and is also linked to increased metabolic disorde...

Effects-based bioassays are expeditious and economic non-targeted chemical analysis tools frequently used in preliminary stages of water quality monitoring efforts, or as part of effects-directed analysis. Using in vitro effects-based methods, we previously detected biological ac...

BACKGROUND. While major pathways of human PFAS exposure are thought to be drinking water and diet, other pathways and sources have also been shown to contribute to a person’s cumulative exposure. However, the degree of contribution of these other sources to PFAS body burdens is s...

Systematic evidence mapping for PFAS structures to characterize human health literature for 430 prioritized PFAS. Systematic evidence maps are pre-decisional analyses that use systematic review methods to compile and summarize evidence, but do not include hazard assessment or tox...

Staff and scientists from the Integrated Climate Sciences Division (ICSD) will be presenting to the Northwest Interagency Partnership for Sustainable Communities (NIPSC), which is a federal interagency collaboration in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington, co-led by Dani Shannon...

Underground Storage Tanks and EJ Presentation for Region 2 and Community Engaged Research Collaborative for Learning and Excellence.  Community level model to assess cumulative impacts and effectiveness of multi-media interventions in improving public health and mitigating the e...

This presentation is to the Research Area Coordination Team (RACT) for the Safe and Sustainable Waters Research program. This work contributes to SSWR Subproduct 404.3.2 Applying forecasted data to better understand, quantify, and anticipate the social and environmental justice i...