Subject: Environmental Public Health

• Broad Strokes for Lead Paint Folks

  January 9, 2007

• Study: St. Louis Among Most Polluted in the Country

  June 11, 2008

• Guarding Angel

  January 16, 2002

• Breathe Uneasy: St. Louis Ranked Worst City for Asthma

  flickr.com/photos/wheatfieldsThe Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America recently came out with its annual ranking of worst cities for asthma. Leading the list is St. Louis. The study, funded by drug company AstraZeneca, took into consideration factors such as a city's air quality, pollen score, poverty rate, and smoking laws.The authors wrote of the Gateway City: Up from number nine in 2008, St. Louis has been ranked as the "No. 1 Asthma Capital" due to a number of factors including

  March 25, 2009

• CSI: Zoo

  January 7, 2009

• University of Missouri biology professor Frederick vom Saal has been sounding the alarm about bisphenol A for a decade. Has he got your attention?

  April 30, 2008

• The Lead Menace

  April 12, 2000

• Get Well Soon, Jimmy

  May 12, 2004

• Heavy-Metal Racket

  December 26, 2001

• Two Steps Forward

  April 26, 2000

• Letters to the Editor

  April 19, 2000

• A Tale of Two States

  April 12, 2000

• Doe Run Lead Smelter Continues to Contaminate Herculaneum

  The report from the Environmental Protection Agency is hardly shocking. Yesterday the agency released test results indicating that as many as one-third of properties situated within a mile of the company's lead smelter in Herculaneum contain lead at levels exceeding 400 parts per million (ppm) -- the EPA's threshold for removing and replacing such soils.Photo: Jennifer SilverbergDoe Run smelter in Herculaneum.​The Doe Run smelter has long history of poisoning iits neighbors, so much so that th

  October 27, 2009