Author: Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology

The Chesapeake Bay is North America's largest and most biologically diverse estuary, as well as an important commercial and recreational resource. ...

Historically, regulations governing chemical use have often focused on widely used chemicals and acute human health effects of exposure to them, as...

The Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) is a program within the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that is responsible for developing t...

During the past century, the Everglades, one of the world's treasured ecosystems, has been dramatically altered by drainage and water management in...

A scientific workforce with cutting-edge skills is critical for the ability of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to carry out its mission to...

Extremely hazardous substances can be released accidentally as a result of chemical spills, industrial explosions, fires, or accidents involving ra...

Despite the increase in funding for research and the rising numbers of peer-reviewed publications over the past decade that address the environment...

Potential health effects from chemicals that disrupt endocrine function pose an environmental health concern because of their ability to interfere ...

This book is the eighth volume in the series Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Selected Airborne Chemicals, and reviews AEGLs for acrolein, carbo...

The Everglades ecosystem is vast, stretching more than 200 miles from Orlando to Florida Bay, and Everglades National Park is but a part located at...

Lead is a ubiquitous metal in the environment, and its adverse effects on human health are well documented. Lead interacts at multiple cellular sit...

From the use of personal products to our consumption of food, water, and air, people are exposed to a wide array of agents each daymany with the po...

Systematic review - a scientific investigation that focuses on a specific question and uses explicit, prespecified scientific methods to identify,...

The blowout of the Macondo well on April 20, 2010, led to enormous consequences for the individuals involved in the drilling operations, and for th...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) applies scientific results that have been provided by various parts of its own organization and by extern...

The US Department of Defense (DOD) is faced with an overwhelming task in evaluating chemicals that could potentially pose a threat to its deployed ...

The Superfund program of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was created in the 1980s to address human-health and environmental risks pose...

The California Department of Pesticide Regulation(DPR)conducts human health risk assessments as part of its mission to ensure the protection of wor...

Tetrachloroethylene is a volatile, chlorinated organic hydrocarbon that is widely used as a solvent in the dry-cleaning and textile-processing indu...

Extremely hazardous substances can be released accidentally as a result of chemical spills, industrial explosions, fires, or accidents involving ra...

As part of its responsibilities under the Clean Air Act, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency sets National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQ...

Extremely hazardous substances can be released accidentally as a result of chemical spills, industrial explosions, fires, or accidents involving ra...

The Everglades ecosystem is vast, stretching more than 200 miles from Orlando to Florida Bay, and Everglades National Park is but a part located at...

Humans are potentially exposed to more than 80,000 toxic chemicals in the environment, yet their impacts on brain health and disease are not well u...

Coal remains one of the principal sources of energy for the United States, and the nation has been a world leader in coal production for more than ...

Biokinetic modeling provides a mathematical technique for estimating absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion of chemicals, including pa...

The predominant way of making steel in the United Sates is by using an electric arc furnace (EAF) to melt scrap steel, which results in the formati...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has a mission and regulatory responsibility to protect human health and the environment. EPA's pursu...

Over the last decade, several large-scale United States and international programs have been initiated to incorporate advances in molecular and cel...

Despite the many benefits of energy, most of which are reflected in energy market prices, the production, distribution, and use of energy causes ne...

In the 1970s, flame retardants began to be added to synthetic materials to meet strict flammability standards. Over the years, diverse flame retard...

Transportation is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, with petroleum accounting for 90 percent of transportation f...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) program develops human health assessments that focus on ...

With the responsibility to ensure the safety of food, drugs, and other products, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) faces decisions that m...

In 2007, the National Research Council envisioned a new paradigm in which biologically important perturbations in key toxicity pathways would be ev...

Soldiers deployed during the 1991 Persian Gulf War were exposed to high concentrations of particulate matter (PM) and other airborne pollutants. Th...