Communities near coal plants are at risk for mercury exposure. This recent CNN article cites research from our lab that shows where mercury emitted from power plants goes. www.cnn.com/2026/03/18/c...
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The EPA rolled back a Biden-era regulation targeting power plants that burn lignite coal and emit significant amounts of toxic mercury. The agency said the high cost wasn’t worth the small gain in saf...
Read about the cool undergraduate senior thesis projects about PFAS that were conducted in our lab!
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The EPA has decided to weaken the limits on mercury pollutions from coal plants. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/c...
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Check out Sunderland Lab alumni Bridger Ruyle's paper on PFAS! This work is featured as a highlight of all 2025 PNAS papers. www.pnas.org/post/update/...
New Substack post covering EPA's changing PFAS and PM2.5 rules pollutionroundup.substack.com/p/the-roundu...
Check out this new paper from Jennifer Sun, a Post-doc in our lab! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Check out our interview with two of our lab alumni (@jahredwithanh.bsky.social @who-lab.bsky.social)! seas.harvard.edu/news/2025/12...
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The Trump Administration's repeals of mercury and heavy metal emissions regulations for coal plants pose a threat to public health. hsph.harvard.edu/news/how-eas...
New study from U of A on the health effects of PFAS on infants: news.arizona.edu/news/new-res...
Original paper: www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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Harvard's Naomi Oreskes led a push to retract a study that originally stated that an herbicide was safe for use after discovering that Monsanto, the herbicide's producer, had played a key role in writing the report. cen.acs.org/research-int...
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A recent repeal of federal environmental regulations aimed at limiting the emission of mercury and other heavy metals from power plants could have serious health impacts, according to Harvard Chan Sch...
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A University of Arizona study finds that PFAS contamination imposes annual social costs of at least $8 billion.
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