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\"\"(Beyond Pesticides<\/em>, May 28, 2019)\u00a0In yet\u00a0another attack by the Trump administration on science<\/a>, public health, and children and families, as well as another\u00a0wink and nod<\/a>\u00a0to industries whose\u00a0products harm<\/a>, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the\u00a0National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)<\/a>\u00a0are planning to end their support for\u00a0research centers that do important scientific investigation<\/a>\u00a0related to children’s health.<\/p>\n

Tell Your Congressional Representatives to Insist on Funding for Children’s Environmental Health Centers.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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’s experiences and communities impact their health. The work of these centers has been critical in uncovering the\u00a0relationships between children’s exposures to toxic chemicals, including pesticides, and diseases and health anomalies<\/a>\u00a0later on in their developing years.<\/p>\n

According to Tracey Woodruff, PhD, who runs the University of California, San Francisco Pregnancy Exposures to Environmental Chemicals Children’s Center: When EPA weighs the harms of a chemical against its benefits, ignorance \u201cworks out perfectly for industry. . . If EPA doesn’t know, it counts for zero.\u201d The centers are very concerned that EPA’s withdrawal of support will force them to stop important, long-term research projects.<\/p>\n

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. Ruth Etzel, MD, a pediatrician at EPA specializing in children’s environmental health, notes, \u201cTwenty years ago, what we were studying is not the same as what we’re studying today. We have to study children now, in their communities.\u201d<\/p>\n

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, often producing results that lead to reform in policies and practices, and ultimately, improved health outcomes.<\/p>\n

The withdrawal of funding by EPA will likely mean reductions in such programs, and such losses may put at risk both the health of neighboring communities and the relationships the research centers have built with them. Pediatricians and researchers find the work of the centers to be critical for communities. NIEHS has said it is unable, without significant changes to the centers’ programs, to make up the shortfall caused by EPA’s abandonment of grant support for the centers \u2014 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

Tell Your Congressional Representatives to Insist on Funding for Children’s Environmental Health Centers.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Letter to Congress
\n<\/em>I am writing to ask you to insist on continuation of government funding for university-based Children\u2019s Environmental Health Centers. The Trump Administration\u2019s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) are planning to end their support for research centers that do important scientific investigation related to children\u2019s health.<\/p>\n

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. Ruth Etzel, MD, a pediatrician at EPA specializing in children\u2019s environmental health, notes, \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

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, often producing results that lead to reform in policies and practices, and ultimately, improved health outcomes. Examples include:<\/p>\n

* A University of Southern California center study of air pollution connections to obesity and poor health that resulted in state and federal guidelines to improve air quality standards and urban planning decisions, including restrictions on building of schools near major roads.<\/p>\n

* The Children\u2019s Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Center at Dartmouth College discovered that infants who ate rice products had higher urinary levels of arsenic; this led to a proposed FDA (Food and Drug Administration) limit on inorganic arsenic in infant rice cereals.<\/p>\n

* The Children\u2019s Environmental Health Center at Mount Sinai (Icahn School of Medicine) Institute for Exposomic Research found prenatal exposure to organophosphates to be negatively associated with children\u2019s cognitive development (particularly perceptual reasoning) as early as age 12 months, and continuing through early childhood.<\/p>\n

* The Columbia Center for Children\u2019s Environmental Health 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.<\/p>\n

Please insist on funding for the Children\u2019s Environmental Health Centers.<\/p>\n

Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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The work of these centers has been critical in uncovering the\u00a0relationships between children’s exposures to toxic chemicals, including pesticides, and diseases and health anomalies\u00a0later on in their developing years. According to Tracey Woodruff, PhD, who runs the University of California, San Francisco Pregnancy Exposures to Environmental Chemicals Children’s Center: When EPA weighs the harms of a chemical against its benefits, ignorance \u201cworks out perfectly for industry. . . 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The founders, who established Beyond Pesticides (originally as National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides) as a nonprofit membership organization in 1981, felt that without the existence of such an organized, national network, local, state and national pesticide policy would become, under chemical industry pressure, increasingly unresponsive to public health and environmental concerns. Beyond Pesticides believes that people must have a voice in decisions that affect them directly. We believe decisions should not be made for us by chemical companies or by decision-makers who either do not have all of the facts or refuse to consider them. Learn more about our work, read A Year in Review\u20142021, our accomplishments are your victories! Beyond Pesticides seeks to protect healthy air, water, land, and food for ourselves and future generations. By forging ties with governments, nonprofits, and people who rely on these natural resources, we reduce the need for unnecessary pesticide use and protect public health and the environment. Beyond Pesticides provides hands-on services to the public and supports local action by: identifying and interpreting hazards; and, designing safe pest management programs. With the information provided by Beyond Pesticides, people may not only be able to make informed choices and adopt practices that protect themselves and their families from unnecessary exposure to pesticides, but they will be able to effect changes on community-wide pest management decisions and policies that govern pesticide use, such as pesticide uses in parks, schools, for community insect control and along roadsides. 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