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Press Releases

Groups Air Concerns with Obama Team, December 2008. News release from the Louisville Charter website. (HTML format)

US EPA Honor, October 2008.

US EPA Honors Elise Miller, Executive Director of the Institute for Children’s Environmental Health (PDF format).

Poisoned Profits Event, October 2008.
News release from Physicians for Social Responsibility-LA (PDF format)

LDDI Publishes Policy Consensus Statement, September 2008.

Learning and Developmental Disabilities Initiative (LDDI): A Call for Chemical Policy Reform, Education, Regulation, and More (PDF format).

LDDI Scientific Consensus Statement Published, February 2008.

Learning and Developmental Disabilities Initiative (LDDI) Publishes Scientific Consensus Statement on Environmental Factors (PDF format).

High Health-care Costs from Toxics, July 2005.

Report Reveals the High Health Care Costs Stemming from Toxics in Washington’s Environment (PDF format).

Maternal Thyroid Disorder Linked with Children's Learning Disabilities, June 2004. News release from Environmental Media Services (PDF file).


Topic Experts

updated December 2008

Children's Environmental Health

Phil Landrigan, MD, MSc, Chair, Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, Center for Children's Health and the Environment, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York
Phone: 212-241-4804
Dr. Landrigan's email

Lynn Goldman, MD, MPH, Professor, Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health
Phone: 410-614-9301
Dr. Goldman's email

Elise Miller, MEd, Director, Collaborative on Health and the Environment
Phone: 360-331-7989
Ms. Miller's email

Lead

Bernie Weiss, PhD, Professor of Environmental Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
Phone: 585-275-1736
Dr. Weiss's email

Bruce Lanphear, PhD, Professor, BC Children's Hospital and Simon Fraser University
and member, National Children's Study Steering Committee
Phone: 778-782-8650
Dr. Lanphear's email

Herb Needleman, MD, Professor, University of Pittsburgh
Phone: 412-383-3100
Dr. Needleman's email

Steve Gilbert, PhD, Director, Institute for Neurotoxicology and Neurological Disorders
Phone: 206-527-0926
Dr. Gilbert's email

Pesticides

Tyrone Hayes, PhD, Professor of Developmental Endocrinology, University of California, Berkeley
Phone: 510-643-1054
Dr. Hayes's email

Monica Moore, Executive Director, Pesticide Action Network of North America
Phone: 415-981-1771 x328
Ms. Moore's email

Jay Feldman, Executive Director, Beyond Pesticides
Phone: 202-543-5450
Mr. Feldman's email

Carol Dansereau, JD, Executive Director, Farm Workers Pesticide Project
Phone: 206-522-5287
Ms. Dansereau's email

Air Pollution

Ruth Etzel, MD, PhD, Adjunct Professor at George Washington University School of Public Health, currently based in Anchorage
Phone: 907-729-3279
Dr. Etzel's email

Frederica Perera, PhD, Director and Professor, Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health, Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
Phone: 212-304-7280
Dr. Perera's email

Aileen Gagney, Asthma and Environmental Health Program Specialist, American Lung Association of Washington State
Phone: 206-441-5100 x14
Ms. Gagney's email

Flame Retardants/PBDEs

Tom McDonald, PhD, Toxicologist, California Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment
Phone: 510-622-3187
Dr. McDonald's email

Heather Stapleton, PhD, Assistant Professor of Environmental Science at Duke University
Phone: 919-613-8717
Dr. Stapleton's email

Chemical Contaminants in Food

Ken Cook, MSc, Executive Director, Environmental Working Group
Phone: 202-939-9141
Mr. Cook's email

Bernie Weiss, PhD, Professor of Environmental Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
Phone: 585-275-1736
Dr. Weiss's email

Economic Costs of Environmental Exposures in Washington State

Katherine Davies MA, DPhil, Director, Center for Creative Change, Antioch University Seattle
Phone: 206-268-4811
Dr. Davies's email

 

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