Carole Bass

Workplace Health

OSHA, Inspect Thyself: Pushed out for blowing the whistle on OSHA’s failure to protect its own employees, Adam Finkel is still trying to get the workers’-health agency to do its job.; publication: Alternet; published: July 2008; read article online
Solving a Massive Worker Health Puzzle: The largest workplace health study ever conducted is applying cutting-edge techniques to investigating an apparent cancer cluster—and highlighting the reasons why science doesn’t always protect us at work; publication: Scientific American; published: March 2008; download article
As Nanotech’s Promise Grows, Will Puny Particles Present Big Health Problems?: Amid the great promise nanotechnology offers, big questions remain on health dangers posed by exposure to tissue-penetrating particles; publication: SciAm.com; published: February 2008; read article online
Killed in the Line of Work: Connecticut legislators missed a chance to help keep poisons out of the workplace.; publication: New York Times; published: June 2007; download article
Worked to Death: Pratt & Whitney Aircraft leaves behind a trail of cancer.; publication: New Haven Advocate; published: August 2001; download article
Cancer Factories?: Rare deadly tumors show up in Pratt & Whitney’s East Hartford workers, too.; publication: New Haven Advocate; published: February 2002; download article
On the Job: The novel is set a century ago, but workplace tragedy is still with us.; publication: New Haven Review; published: August 2007; download article

Environment

Nanotech: The Unknown Risks: “It’s green, it’s clean, it’s never seen — that’s nanotechnology!” That exuberant motto, used by an executive at a nanotech trade group, reflects the enthusiasm about nanotechnology, now used in everything from computer keyboards to toothpaste. But the motto is open for debate. For while nanotech does hold clean and green potential, it also poses possible serious risks to the environment and human health — risks that researchers have barely begun to probe, and regulators have barely begun to regulate.; publication: Yale Environment 360; published: June 2008; read article online
(Nano)Silver Bullet: Your toothpaste and computer keyboard might be pesticides. As manufacturers lace more and more ordinary household goods with germ-killing nano toxins, federal regulators — and the environment — struggle to keep up.; publication: The New Republic; published: May 2008; read article online
Yale’s Big Green Experiment: A world-class university gets serious about its environmental footprint.; publication: Yale Alumni Magazine; published: November 2007; download article
Toxictown, Connecticut: The ghosts of polluters past haunt the town of Cheshire. They haunt us all.; publication: New Haven Advocate; published: January 2000; download article

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