Occupational Knowledge International is a nonprofit organization (NGO) working internationally to build capacity to protect public health and the environment.
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I gave an interview for NPR on our new article on silicosis due to engineered stone among immigrant workers in California. npr.org/sections/health-shot…
Very important summary but unfortunately they missed our important study of silica exposures among informal stone crushing workers in #india at okinternational.org/docs/IJO…
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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/sections/health-shot…
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Exporting US Lead Pipes and Solutions to this Environmental Justice Problem
Webinar tomorrow: Link to register: pitt.zoom.us/j/93974272881
@CaitSchroering
@casacem
@occupknowledge
@charlotbrody
@CLASPITT
@PittMCSI
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
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 ti.me/46LgeDE
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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OK International retweeted
👇Link to register: pitt.zoom.us/j/93974272881
@CaitSchroering @casacem @occupknowledge @charlotbrody @CLASPITT @PittMCSI
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 on.wsj.com/44gxkrz
OK International retweeted
#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
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/news/2023/02/20…
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/2023/06/famil…
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/2023/0…
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!
greenpeace.org/static/planet…
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
wedocs.unep.org/bitstream/ha…
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
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....
latimes.com/environment/stor…
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.
ajph.aphapublications.org/do…
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 thebaltimorebanner.com/commu…
“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/en/articles/2023/05…
