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Occupational Knowledge International is a nonprofit organization (NGO) working internationally to build capacity to protect public health and the environment.
San Francisco, CA
Joined September 2009
I gave an interview for NPR on our new article on silicosis due to engineered stone among immigrant workers in California.
npr.org
Countertops made of the engineered stone "quartz" are incredibly popular, but public health experts say cutting this material unsafely can expose workers to deadly dust.
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Very important summary but unfortunately they missed our important study of silica exposures among informal stone crushing workers in #india at
How common & intense are exposures to asbestos, silica & coal dust at work? Our new @WHO/@ilo systematic review provides a first global synthesis of the evidence: https://t.co/8qjzNS2xW8 Many thanks to the Working Group experts from 🇩🇰🇮🇹🇦🇪🇨🇳🇺🇸🇧🇪🇩🇪🇫🇮🇹🇭🇧🇬🇿🇦🇳🇱
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More cases of silicosis identified in California among counter top workers cutting artificial quartz -- 27% misdiagnosed with #tuberculosis as is common in many LMICs
npr.org
Countertops made of the engineered stone "quartz" are incredibly popular, but public health experts say cutting this material unsafely can expose workers to deadly dust.
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Exporting US Lead Pipes and Solutions to this Environmental Justice Problem Webinar tomorrow: Link to register: https://t.co/zaAAGOevJG
@CaitSchroering
@casacem
@occupknowledge
@charlotbrody
@CLASPITT
@PittMCSI
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Why is lead poisoning a huge problem in #India? Because there are 672 "authorized" small lead battery recyclers for a battery market that is approximately the same size as the U.S. which has 10 large lead smelters...small recycling plants can't afford environmental controls
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But lead paint is not banned as it continues to be used outside of homes
The Biden administration on Wednesday moved to reduce children’s exposure to lead, proposing stricter limits on dust from lead-based paint in older homes and child-care facilities
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But @EPA must tell grantees not to allow ised lead pipe to be exported to polluting recyclers in low income countries #EnvironmentalJustice
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👇Link to register: https://t.co/zaAAGOevJG
@CaitSchroering @casacem @occupknowledge @charlotbrody @CLASPITT @PittMCSI
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Unfortunately what this article does not mention is that current efforts to replace lead pipes are sometimes leaving pipes in the ground that may also contribute to soil and water contamination
AT&T, Verizon and other telecom giants have left behind a sprawling network of cables covered in toxic lead that stretches across the U.S., under the water, in the soil and on poles overhead, a WSJ investigation found
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#LeadPaint remains an issue in Cameroon Cameroon despite the 2017 landmark regulation banning all #Paint with more than #90ppm lead. We are testing to inform full enforcement @ChemandWaste
@IPEN_AF
@ToxicsFree
@UNEP
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Another example of @ASTM works against public health to prolong use of lead fuel for airplanes in the interest of corporations who control this organization “The question asked in ASTM meetings is, essentially, ‘What is in this for my company?’”
politico.com
Lead was removed from gasoline decades ago. So why is aviation fuel still laced with the metal — a neurotoxin tied to developmental problems in children?
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Schmidheiny given 12-year jail sentence over the deaths of hundreds of workers and residents in Casale Monferrato, Italy due to asbestos exposure from his large asbestos cement factory
thenewlede.org
Families of those killed by asbestos-related illnesses are demanding that Yale University revoke an honorary degree given to a Swiss billionaire who was convicted last week of aggravated manslaughter...
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Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors took steps Tuesday to consider a countywide ban on artificial-stone countertops due to #silicosis risk and deaths of workers after a few years of cutting/ installing these
publichealthwatch.org
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors took preliminary steps Tuesday that could lead to a countywide ban on artificial-stone countertops, the source of an epidemic that is killing workers who...
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A large group of NGOs @Greenpeace sign letter asking @UNEP to adopt a conflict of interest disclosure policy to stop putting out reports without disclosing financial and other conflicts of the authors -- this is needed by all @UN agencies! https://t.co/yogX6TBZff
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Another example of UNEP and other UN agencies that put out reports without conflict of interest disclosure statements
New @UNEP Report Lobbies for the Plastic/Chemical Industries Ahead of #PlasticsTreaty INC2 UNEP 1⃣Asks the Public to Pay for #PlasticWaste Clean-up 2⃣Threatens human health, pushing for toxic plastic recycling 3⃣Promotes #ChemicalRecycling #PlasticFuels
https://t.co/S3e9yXmrzo
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The US lead market has become more dependent on imports since @Brookfield closed the Florence, SC battery recycling plant in 2021 to export used lead batteries to more polluting plants in #Mexico
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The costs of cleaning up lead contamination from legacy lead battery recycling plants just keeps going up and this is just about one facility of many.... https://t.co/OUgonuWEBb
latimes.com
California's budget proposal commits $67 million to clean thousands of lead-contaminated parkways near the former Exide battery smelter.
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Our article Lead Industry Influence in the 21st Century chronicles the lead industry’s actions to promote the “safe and responsible” use of lead, question science and forestall regulations on lead emissions and lead use restrictions. https://t.co/E0JtkJP706
ajph.aphapublications.org
In recent years, lead poisoning has received increasing attention as lead production continues to grow and the industry shifts the most polluting processes (e.g., smelting ore and recycling batteri...
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Another reason to ban lead paint for all applications (as lead coatings are still allowed on "industrial" structures) as lead paint rains down on residential neighborhood from TV tower
thebanner.com
The plaintiffs are seeking $75,000 each in compensatory damages for “diminution of property value, loss of property appreciation, and lead paint chip and lead dust abatement.”
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“This investment corporation, Brookfield Partners, took over and all they care about is money, not whether we die or live tomorrow." workers on strike at Clarios @UAW lead battery plant in Ohio with lead exposure and low pay
wsws.org
The outcome of the struggle at Clarios will have major consequences for the 170,000 autoworkers in the US and Canada whose contracts expire this summer.
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