If you live in a town or city where industrial facilities are emitting chemicals into the air, there is plenty of reason to wonder: How is this affecting me? “People living near the nation’s oil […]
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Media Watch: Want to Know What’s in Your Water?
The nonprofit watchdog Environmental Working Group recently released a database that compiled publicly available information from water testing programs at more than 50,000 water utility operators across the country from 2010-2015. Its premise is that […]
Putting the Brook Trout Back in Brooktrout Lake
Once teeming with enough fish to earn its name, Brooktrout Lake – when surveyed in the 1980s – was found to be fishless. The lake, described in 1894 as a place where “crystal depths swarm […]
On The Road Again…This Time, It’s For Air Quality Testing
“Have idea, will travel” … while it’s not Drexel’s official slogan (yet) you could be forgiven if you think so. Over the last few years it seems as though research-on-wheels has become one of the […]