Agent Orange
lborkowski | December 19, 2016A few recent pieces worth a read:
Sarah Kliff at Vox: Why Obamacare enrollees voted for Trump
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie at the New Yorker: Now is the time to talk about what we are actually talking about
Ta-Nehisi Coates at The Atlantic: My President Was Black
Nidhi Subbaraman at BuzzFeed: Obamacare Repeal Will Bring Lean Times To 9,000 Clinics For The Poor
Helen Branswell at STAT: With latest Zika research, our picture of the virus gets cloudier
Charles Ornstein and Hannah Fresques, ProPublica, and Mike Hixenbaugh at ProPublica/The Virginian-Pilot: The Children of Agent Orange
kkrisberg | October 26, 2016Charles Ornstein at ProPublica and Mike Hixenbaugh at the Virginian-Pilot investigate the man known as Dr. Orange for his “fervent” defense against claims that exposures to Agent Orange sickened American veterans. A part of their long-running investigation “Reliving Agent Orange,” this most recent article reports that the Veterans Administration has repeatedly cited Dr. Orange’s (real name: Alvin Young) work to deny compensation to veterans, even though many argue Young’s work is compromised by inaccuracies, inconsistencies and omissions. In addition, the very chemical companies that make…
lborkowski | July 8, 2013Chemical Safety Board Chair Rafael Moure-Eraso testified before the Senate's Environment and Public Works Committee regarding its preliminary findings on the West, Texas fertilizer plant explosion that killed 15 people in April. Ramit Plushnick-Masti reports for the Associated Press:
"The safety of ammonium nitrate fertilizer storage falls under a patchwork of U.S. regulatory standards and guidance — a patchwork that has many large holes," according to the report presented to the panel by Rafael Moure-Eraso, the board's chairman.
The board, which has no regulatory authority, recommended in…
mpendergrast | June 21, 2010Mark Pendergrast writes: To kick off this book club discussion of Inside the Outbreaks, I thought I would explain briefly how I came to write the book and then suggest some possible topics for discussion.
The origin of the book goes back to an email I got in 2004 from my old high school and college friend, Andy Vernon, who wrote that I should consider writing the history of the EIS. I emailed back to say that I was honored, but what was the EIS? I had never heard of it. I knew Andy worked on tuberculosis at the CDC, but I didn't know that he had been a state-based EIS officer from 1978…