{"id":24867,"date":"2019-05-17T00:00:24","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T04:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/?p=24867"},"modified":"2019-05-16T20:27:21","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T00:27:21","slug":"childrens-environmental-health-centers-to-lose-all-epa-funding-under-administration-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2019\/05\/childrens-environmental-health-centers-to-lose-all-epa-funding-under-administration-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"Children&#8217;s Environmental Health Centers to Lose All EPA Funding Under Administration Proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-24901\" src=\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/images-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"357\" height=\"251\" \/>(<em>Beyond Pesticides<\/em>, May 17, 2019)\u00a0After two decades of co-sponsoring and co-funding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/sites\/production\/files\/2017-10\/documents\/niehs_epa_childrens_centers_impact_report_2017_0.pdf\">research centers that do important scientific investigation<\/a> related to children\u2019s health, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.niehs.nih.gov\/index.cfm\">National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)<\/a> are planning to end their support. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-019-01491-1?fbclid=IwAR02CO1fm6jt_wThq7rqqmSP41pcFVK-TT2xIwvQ0U8Pamtwsm7vhjqzRNA\">EPA has announced that it will no longer renew its grants to these centers.<\/a> As of July, they will lose a huge portion of the funding that has allowed them to deploy hundreds of scientists \u2014 in genetics, toxicology, and neurodevelopment \u2014 on unusually comprehensive and longitudinal studies of what factors in children\u2019s experiences and communities impact their health. The work of these centers has been critical in uncovering the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org\/assets\/media\/documents\/lawn\/factsheets\/Pesticide.children.dontmix.pdf\">relationships between children\u2019s exposures to toxic chemicals, including pesticides, and diseases and health anomalies<\/a> later on in their developing years.<\/p>\n<p>This announcement represents yet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org\/assets\/media\/documents\/bp-37.4-w17-Assault.pdf\">another attack by the Trump administration on science<\/a>, public health, and children and families, as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2018\/04\/report-documents-undermining-science-industry-influence-usda\/\">another wink and nod<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org\/assets\/media\/documents\/bp-37.4-w17-EPA.pdf\">industries whose products harm<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-019-01491-1?fbclid=IwAR02CO1fm6jt_wThq7rqqmSP41pcFVK-TT2xIwvQ0U8Pamtwsm7vhjqzRNA\">Says Tracey Woodruff,<\/a> who runs the University of California, San Francisco Pregnancy Exposures to Environmental Chemicals Children&#8217;s Center: When EPA weights the harms of a chemical against its benefits, this \u201cworks out perfectly for industry. . . . If EPA doesn\u2019t know, it counts for zero.\u201d The centers are very concerned that EPA\u2019s withdrawal of support will force them to shutter important, long-term research projects.<\/p>\n<p>The studies conducted by these centers often begin before birth and follow subjects through childhood and into adulthood, yielding unusually rich data that can track, for example, environmental exposures early in life and subsequent and related health problems years later. In addition, these longitudinal studies can adapt to the changing mixes of exposure risks children may face over 20 years or so as they grow from newborns to young adults. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-019-01491-1?fbclid=IwAR02CO1fm6jt_wThq7rqqmSP41pcFVK-TT2xIwvQ0U8Pamtwsm7vhjqzRNA\">Ruth Etzel, MD,\u00a0 a pediatrician at EPA specializing in children\u2019s environmental health, notes,<\/a> \u201cTwenty years ago, what we were studying is not the same as what we\u2019re studying today. We have to study children now, in their communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the past 20+ years, centers have operated in California, Colorado, Illinois, Michigan, Iowa, Ohio, Georgia, North Carolina, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. The centers produce work that often leads to reform in policies and practices, and ultimately, improved health outcomes. Examples include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A <a href=\"https:\/\/news.usc.edu\/153762\/usc-study-on-air-pollution-and-obesity-in-teens\/\">University of Southern California center study of air pollution<\/a> connections to obesity and poor health resulted in state and federal guidelines to improve air quality standards and urban planning decisions, including restrictions on building of schools near major roads.<\/li>\n<li>The Children\u2019s Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dartmouth.edu\/~childrenshealth\/\">Center at Dartmouth College discovered that infants who ate rice products had higher urinary levels of arsenic<\/a>; this led to a proposed FDA (Food and Drug Administration) limit on inorganic arsenic in infant rice cereals.<\/li>\n<li>The Children\u2019s Environmental Health Center at Mount Sinai (Icahn School of Medicine) Institute for Exposomic Research \u2014 a co-convenor with Beyond Pesticides of the recent <a href=\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2019\/04\/beyond-pesticides-national-forum-reflects-movement-behind-strong-organic-standards-that-have-integrity\/\">37<sup>th<\/sup> Annual Forum<\/a> \u2014 was an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mountsinai.org\/about\/newsroom\/2011\/new-mount-sinai-study-shows-exposure-to-certain-pesticides-impacts-child-cognitive-development\">early investigator into the impacts of organophosphate pesticides<\/a> (such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org\/resources\/pesticide-gateway?pesticideid=17\">chlorpyrifos<\/a>) on children. In 2011, a center research team <a href=\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/assets\/media\/documents\/bp-37.4-w17-Chlorpyrifos-cited.pdf\">found prenatal exposure to organophosphates to be negatively associated with children\u2019s cognitive development<\/a> (particularly perceptual reasoning) as early as age 12 months, and continuing through early childhood. <a href=\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2019\/01\/help-get-neurotoxic-pesticide-chlorpyrifos-out-of-agriculture\/\">Beyond Pesticides has covered<\/a> ensuing research on chlorpyrifos, the mounting demand for its removal from the market, and various <a href=\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2019\/01\/help-get-neurotoxic-pesticide-chlorpyrifos-out-of-agriculture\/\">legislative attempts<\/a> to achieve that.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/ccceh.org\/\">Columbia Center for Children\u2019s Environmental Health<\/a> reported in 2012 on research showing that children exposed to high levels of chlorpyrifos prenatally had lower IQs and altered brain structure compared to those with low exposures. The center\u2019s work also informs an ongoing lawsuit brought by environmental groups seeking to force EPA to ban the pesticide. The Columbia center has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-019-01491-1?fbclid=IwAR02CO1fm6jt_wThq7rqqmSP41pcFVK-TT2xIwvQ0U8Pamtwsm7vhjqzRNA\">tracked hundreds of kids in New York City since 1998,<\/a> collecting samples not only of urine and blood, but also, of air in children\u2019s homes \u2014 all in service of identifying health effects of chemicals and pollutants. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-019-01491-1?fbclid=IwAR02CO1fm6jt_wThq7rqqmSP41pcFVK-TT2xIwvQ0U8Pamtwsm7vhjqzRNA\">The journal <em>Nature<\/em> reports that,<\/a> \u201cThe centre\u2019s findings influenced New York City\u2019s decision in 2018 to phase out diesel buses, and its staff members teach schools and community groups about the harmful chemicals and pollution that kids encounter each day.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These centers conduct research that informs policy, but they also work \u2014 as does the Columbia center \u2014 with local communities to educate people about their findings, and about how residents can protect themselves more effectively from the chemical, particulate, or other pollution in their surrounds. Many of those communities are Environmental Justice communities that <a href=\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/category\/environmental-justice\/\">are affected disproportionately<\/a> by such pollution and by a relative lack of mediation and of attention to the issue.<\/p>\n<p>The withdrawal of funding by EPA will likely mean reductions in such programs, andm such losses may put at risk both the health of neighboring communities and the relationships the research centers have built with them. A pediatrician at Rainbow Babies and Children\u2019s Hospital in Cleveland, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-019-01491-1?fbclid=IwAR02CO1fm6jt_wThq7rqqmSP41pcFVK-TT2xIwvQ0U8Pamtwsm7vhjqzRNA\">Aparna Bole, MD says,<\/a> \u201cI cannot think of an equivalent network that could do the same work.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-019-01491-1?fbclid=IwAR02CO1fm6jt_wThq7rqqmSP41pcFVK-TT2xIwvQ0U8Pamtwsm7vhjqzRNA\">Linda McCauley, RN, PhD, an environmental health researcher at the Children\u2019s Research Center at Emory University in Atlanta, notes<\/a>, \u201cAll these community stakeholders have been such critical partners for this work nationally and there\u2019s no funding. They\u2019re the ones being hurt the most.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NIEHS has said it is unable, without significant changes to the centers\u2019 programs, to make up the shortfall caused by EPA\u2019s abandonment of grant support for the centers. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-019-01491-1?fbclid=IwAR02CO1fm6jt_wThq7rqqmSP41pcFVK-TT2xIwvQ0U8Pamtwsm7vhjqzRNA\">Kimberley Gray of NIEHS indicates<\/a> that the agency is trying to capitalize on the research the centers have completed by supporting their community outreach, and is searching for ways to keep study cohorts together going forward.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump EPA (and other federal agencies) are active on numerous fronts to <a href=\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2017\/01\/trump-administration-stifles-science-transparency-within-epa\/\">diminish the role of science<\/a>, and some scientists see this latest move as evidence of the administration\u2019s withdrawal from protection of human \u2014 never mind environmental \u2014 health. In September 2018, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-019-01491-1?fbclid=IwAR02CO1fm6jt_wThq7rqqmSP41pcFVK-TT2xIwvQ0U8Pamtwsm7vhjqzRNA\">EPA put Dr. Etzel,\u00a0 head of its Office of Children\u2019s Health Protection on administrative leave<\/a>; she reports that she\u2019s never been told why EPA suspended her, and has never heard from the agency since being given the notice of leave. EPA has not replaced her.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. McCauley believes that that such moves are designed to benefit the chemical industry by disabling research that might point to the need for more-robust regulation. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-019-01491-1?fbclid=IwAR02CO1fm6jt_wThq7rqqmSP41pcFVK-TT2xIwvQ0U8Pamtwsm7vhjqzRNA\">She comments,<\/a> \u201cThat\u2019s how this administration is working. They can be effective by slowing things down to a crawl.\u201d See Beyond Pesticides <a href=\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/programs\/children-and-schools\/overview\">Children and Schools webpage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>All unattributed positions and opinions in this piece are those of Beyond Pesticides.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-019-01491-1?fbclid=IwAR02CO1fm6jt_wThq7rqqmSP41pcFVK-TT2xIwvQ0U8Pamtwsm7vhjqzRNA\">https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-019-01491-1?fbclid=IwAR02CO1fm6jt_wThq7rqqmSP41pcFVK-TT2xIwvQ0U8Pamtwsm7vhjqzRNA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Beyond Pesticides, May 17, 2019)\u00a0After two decades of co-sponsoring and co-funding research centers that do important scientific investigation related to children\u2019s health, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) are planning to end their support. EPA has announced that it will no longer renew its grants to these centers. As of July, they will lose a huge portion of the funding that has allowed them to deploy hundreds of scientists \u2014 in genetics, toxicology, and neurodevelopment \u2014 on unusually comprehensive and longitudinal studies of what factors in children\u2019s experiences and communities impact their health. The work of these centers has been critical in uncovering the relationships between children\u2019s exposures to toxic chemicals, including pesticides, and diseases and health anomalies later on in their developing years. This announcement represents yet another attack by the Trump administration on science, public health, and children and families, as well as another wink and nod to industries whose products harm. Says Tracey Woodruff, who runs the University of California, San Francisco Pregnancy Exposures to Environmental Chemicals Children&#8217;s Center: When EPA weights the harms of a chemical against its benefits, this \u201cworks out perfectly for industry. . . 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EPA has announced that it will no longer renew its grants to these centers. As of July, they will lose a huge portion of the funding that has allowed them to deploy hundreds of scientists \u2014 in genetics, toxicology, and neurodevelopment \u2014 on unusually comprehensive and longitudinal studies of what factors in children\u2019s experiences and communities impact their health. The work of these centers has been critical in uncovering the relationships between children\u2019s exposures to toxic chemicals, including pesticides, and diseases and health anomalies later on in their developing years. This announcement represents yet another attack by the Trump administration on science, public health, and children and families, as well as another wink and nod to industries whose products harm. Says Tracey Woodruff, who runs the University of California, San Francisco Pregnancy Exposures to Environmental Chemicals Children&#8217;s Center: When EPA weights the harms of a chemical against its benefits, this \u201cworks out perfectly for industry. . . 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