FairWarning Reports
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.
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.
Even at Legal Levels, Contaminants Found in Tap Water Are a Cancer Risk
Cigarettes, obesity, alcohol, the sun – it seems like everything in the world causes cancer. Now you can add one more to the list: tap water.
Lawsuit Takes Aim at Sheltered Workshops, Where Disabled Workers Make Far Less than Minimum Wage
For seven years, Michael Denoewer held a job in Marysville, Ohio, unpacking and organizing instruction manuals for new Honda automobiles. Born with intellectual and developmental disabilities, including epilepsy and autism, he was paid a piece-rate that in some years averaged between $1 and $2 an hour - well below the state and federal minimum wage.
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