FairWarning Reports
Toll Continues to Mount for Pedestrians and Bicyclists, the Victims in One in Five Traffic Deaths
Policymakers have eagerly promoted walking and bicycle riding as a way to get healthy exercise while reducing traffic congestion, air pollution and carbon emissions. But those activities are becoming increasingly dangerous in America.
Report Card for the States Rates Those with Best and Worst Laws to Cut Traffic Deaths
Drunk drivers, motorcyclists and young or distracted motorists make up the majority of those involved in fatal vehicle crashes, and many states are failing to pass key safety measures that could prevent such deaths, according to a new report by a highway safety group.
Dirty Air and the Human Brain: Does Pollution Poison the Mind?
Air pollution is known to be a serious health risk –a cause of asthma, heart disease, stroke, lung cancer and a factor, according to the World Health Organization, in an estimated seven million deaths worldwide every year. A growing body of research suggests air pollution may also be harming our brains.
New Study Says Some Marketers of Brain Boosting Supplements are Flouting an FDA Ban
Fifteen years ago, the federal government said “no” to piracetam.
Frustrated Advocates Increasingly Turn to the Courts to Fight Climate Change
For some, climate change is a theoretical crisis looming in the distance. But for many coastal and island cities, the damage is here.
Study Raises Concern About E-Cigarette Waste
Nearly two years ago, Jeremiah Mock heard a student in Marin County, California, complain that her school was littered with e-cigarette waste. A health anthropologist by training, Mock did some shoe-leather investigating in a student parking lot, where he found a significant amount of e-cigarette and tobacco trash.
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