Are local public officials simply too naïve, or are they too close to the influential developers in town? This question immediately came to mind reading the recent article in The
Kate Hoffman, an assistant research professor at Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment, has received a $3.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the impact of early-life exposures to semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOCs) on neonatal and early childhood immune function.