Tag: human health
Gelman site’s future is unclear as Trump proposes EPA cuts
Locals have been pushing for more aggressive solutions to the Gelman plume, but the company isn’t required to fully clean it up. EPA intervention could change that — if it survives Trump 2.0.
Stateside Podcast: The Gelman plume’s long legacy of contamination
A deep dive into the history of contamination by the Gelman plume in Ann Arbor. We hear about how it started, its impacts to water and human health, and what’s being done about it today.
The Gelman plume: Questions about health effects
Rita Loch-Caruso and the Yale Superfund Research Center want to use Ann Arbor’s case study to learn more about what they call “another forever chemical.” There’s a lot to learn and a surprising amount that isn’t known.
“It cost us dearly.” The legacy of Ann Arbor’s Gelman plume
Marianne Martin has lived in the same home for over 50 years, despite groundwater contamination that rendered her drinking water well unusable. She sued the company responsible — and lost. Now she’s worried the same contamination could threaten Ann Arbor’s drinking water.
Everything to know about microplastics in the Great Lakes
Shortly after Chelsea Rochman moved to Toronto to start her current faculty job at University of Toronto, she began working with the Government of Canada to sample microplastics in fish from Lake Ontario. What she found, she said, shocked her. They found microplastics in every single fish they tested. Every single fish.