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DiDomenico Secures $1 Million for Non-Profits – Everett Independent
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People of Chelsea: Bob Boulrice – Former Chelsea Treasurer Chelsea Art Walk • 2016 – Chelsea Record
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As Temperatures Set Records, Heat Exposure Hits Some Neighborhoods Harder than Others
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Biopharmaceutical Company to Pay $600K to Settle Alleged Clean Air Act Violations March 10, 2021
A global biopharmaceutical company has agreed to pay $600,000 and limit its emissions of harmful air pollutants to settle allegations that it violated the Massachusetts Clean Air Act and regulations at its Lexington, Massachusetts, facility.
Of that amount, $200,000 will fund a project to purchase air filters for more than 500 homes in Chelsea, an environmental justice community that suffers from poor air quality due to numerous nearby sources of similar air pollutants, including industrial facilities, heavy highway and road traffic and Logan Airport.
“This company knowingly caused air pollution by failing to comply with regulations intended to protect public health,” Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey said in a statement issued by her office. “This settlement holds the company accountable and will result in long-term benefits to the
Who Feels the Heat?
Madeleine Scammell studies unequal exposure to heat and its health consequences, from Central America to Chelsea, Mass.
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“Climate change is a slow-motion disaster for some, and a not-so-slow disaster for what we call ‘frontline’ communities the most vulnerable people and places who have most often contributed the least in terms of emissions that are exacerbating the greenhouse effect,” says Madeleine Scammell, associate professor of environmental health.
Scammell is, increasingly, studying heat in these communities, from Nicaragua to Chelsea, Mass.
It began in 2008 with her research into an ongoing and still not explained epidemic of chronic kidney disease in Central America that has killed thousands of young- and middle-aged men, most of them agricultural sugarcane workers.