Our widely respected faculty are often called on to share their expertise, and this term they spoke on-camera and on-air and were quoted by media outlets including CBS News, the Today Show, National Public Radio, the Associated Press, Newsweek, The New York Times, the Washington Post, Scientific American, and Salon.
Dean Goldman was quoted in:
- Pollution kills more than 1.7 million children a year, WHO reports (CBS News 3/6/2017)
- Politico’s Morning Shift (1/20/2017)
- Q&A: What the Executive Order on Regulations Could Mean for EPA, FDA (The Scientist 2/10/2017)
- Inside the Academic Journal That Corporations Love (Pacific Standard 3/28/2017)
- EPA: Democrats plan forum for Pruitt critics (E&E Daily 1/24/2017)
- An Industry Trailblazer (Rena Godfrey: Travel and Freelance Writer site 2/1/2017)
Publications quoting EOH Professor and Interim Associate Dean for Research Melissa Perry and discussing her research include:
- Catching Up with Popular Pesticides: More Human Health Studies Are Needed on Neonicotinoids (Environmental Health Perspectives 2/2/2017
- First evidence found of popular farm pesticides in drinking water (The Washington Post 4/5/2017)
- Neonicotinoid insecticides killing bees ... and humans? (Le Monde 2/6/2017, in French)
Interim EOH Chair and Professor George Gray is quoted in EPA science under scrutiny by Trump political staff (AP 1/26/2017)
EOH Professor and former OSHA Administrator David Michaels was quoted in and/or wrote 17 articles for media outlets. Read more about why he feels that speaking out about occupational safety and health concerns is important here.
- America’s Toxic Workplace Rules (The New York Times 4/10/2017)
- EPA emerges as a major target after Trump solicits policy advice from industry (The Washington Post 4/16/2017)
- OSHA suspends rule requiring firms report injury and illness data electronically (The Washington Post 5/17/17)
- Critics say HONEST Act undercuts EPA’s use of science (Marketplace 4/10/2017)
- Congress May Undo Rule That Pushes Firms To Keep Good Safety Records (NPR 3/20/2017)
- On Point (WBUR-FM (NPR) 4/11/2017)
- Congress May Roll Back Injury Log Requirement, Endangering Workers (Forbes 3/20/2017, an opinion written by Michaels)
- It couldn’t get much worse: Trump’s policies are already making workplaces more toxic (Salon 4/16/2017)
- OSHA tells companies to report injuries. There’s no website for that yet. (Reveal News 5/9/2017)
- GOP Senate About to Allow Bad Employers to Avoid Reporting Workplace Injuries (The American Prospect 3/20/2017)
- The Human Cost of Trump’s Rollback on Regulations (The Huffington Post 4/16/2017)
- Donald Trump’s Budget Could Cost Money Where it Pretends to Save (The Huffington Post 3/21/2017)
- Oil and gas industry leads in severe injuries (E & E News 5/2/2017)
- Inside Alabama's Auto Jobs Boom: Cheap Wages, Little Wages, Crushed Limbs (Bloomberg 3/23/2017)
- House GOP Assesses How to Unburden Employers From OSHA Rules (Bloomberg BNA 2/14/2017)
- President Trump: American Workers Need Jobs, Safe Jobs (Bloomberg BNA 3/30/2017, an article by Michaels)
- Inside the Academic Journal That Corporations Love (Pacific Standard 3/28/2017)
EOH Professor and ARAC Director Lance Price is quoted in:
- Trump's CDC may face serious hurdles (Scientific American 1/18/2017)
- A Nevada woman dies of a superbug resistant to every available antibiotic in the US (STAT 1/12/2017)
- An American woman just died from a superbug resistant to 26 different antibiotics CBC radio 1/20/2017)
- Superbug E. coli, resistant to last-resort antibiotic, show up in China (STAT 1/27/2017)
- MTA to spend $196,000 outfitting weekday MARK commuter trains with bike racks (The Baltimore Sun 1/08/2017)
Emeritus Professor Jerome Paulson is quoted in:
- Slashing EPA Budget Would Harm Kids, Pediatric Specialists Say (Bloomberg BNA 4/6/2017)
- Lead Poisoning's Lifelong Toll Includes Lowering Social Mobility, Researchers Find (Kaiser Health News 3/28/2017)
Media outlets quoting Assistant Professor Ami Zota and discussing her research include:
- Today Show clip (NBC 4/27/2017)
- Flame Retardant Levels Appear To Rise In Women, A Decade After Ban (Newsweek 3/28/2017)
- Record Level of Toxic Flame Retardants Found in College Dorm (Newsweek 4/27/2017)
- Give grime the brushoff with these cleaning tips (Star Telegram 4/29/2017)
Professorial Lecturer Celeste Monforton is quoted in:
- Trump’s Courageous, Valiant Decision to Gut Government Worker Safety (The Nation 4/5/2017)
- Despite new law, EPA fails to tell millions of Montana asbestos danger (Billings Gazette 1/29/2017)
- Deportation Fears Keep Undocumented Workers From Reporting Hazards (Bloomberg BNA 3/8/2017)
- Morning Shift (Politico 3/17/2017)
- Special Report: Should Coal Country Roll Back State Laws and Rely on Feds?
Professorial Lecturer Florence Williams is the subject of Florence Williams: Globe-trotting author and journalist for National Geographic will speak at Annual Nature Symposium (Chicago Tribune 4/26/2017)
Our building’s latest architectural awards are discussed in:
- D.C. school building wins AIA Institute Honor Award (Curbed 1/19/2017)
- D.C.’s Milken Institute School of Public Health wins AIA COTE Award (Curbed 4/20/2017)