As the Environmental Protection Agency decides whether to make Newtown Creek a Superfund cleanup site, a public health study is getting underway interview deadly illness afflicted neighbors of the polluted waterway. The study will focus on collecting narratives in Greenpoint, East Williamsburg and Maspeth towards a final report early next year. |NYDN|
New York City has some of the toughest anti-smoking laws in the country, banning people from lighting up at work and many public places. Although the laws have helped clear the air, a new study from the city’s health department suggests they’re not enough to protect non-smokers from cancer-causing clouds. The study found 57 percent of non-smoking New Yorkers tested positive for cotinine, a non-harmful nicotine byproduct indicative of secondhand smoke exposure, significantly higher than the 45 percent national average. Read more »
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