Environmental Law

EPA Handing Out Millions in Taxpayer Money to Study Combination of Pollution and ?Social Stressors? in Poor Neighborhoods | CNSnews.com

By STEPHEN HOLZER

(CNSNews.com) ? The Environmental Protection Agency is giving scientists at several universities $7 million in grants to study how pollution, in combination with ?stress? and other social factors, affects people in ?poor and underserved? communities.

At a symposium in Washington on Wednesday, Lisa Garcia, associate assistant administrator of environmental justice at the EPA, said the grant-funded studies ?will focus on some of the multiple stressors in communities.?  That includes examining the effects of ?chemicals, anxiety, poor nutrition, age, and traffic pollutants on childhood asthma rates,? for example.

via www.cnsnews.com

Well, here is one place $7 million could easily be saved to reduce the deficit.

Full post as published by Environmental Legal Blogs on January 13, 2011 (boomark / email).