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News About CAFEH

• Somerville Unsung Hero – Ellin Resiner (June 2012) 
• OP-ED: Particulate Pollution: Regulated, but Still Killing- By Douglas M. Brugge, PhD MS and Wig Zamore
• OP-ED: NYDailyNews.com – Wake up to the most dangerous air pollution: Fine particulate matter kills thousands in N.Y.C., L.A.- BY Doug Brugge and Wig Zamore

• Chinatown participates in Tufts study on health risk living near a highway. Boston Globe by Roy Greene (January 9, 2012)

• Road Hazard / Tufts researchers study health risks highways may pose in neighborhoods. Boston Sunday Globe by Bina Venkataraman (April 12, 2009)

• WBUR Boston: Highway Solution Story (October 19, 2009)

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• ‘Breathing Less Easily with Ultrafine Particles’ Environmental Science & Technology p 4615-4617 (July 1, 2009)
• ‘NIH Funds Highway Pollution & Health Study in Boston, Somerville’ (June 19, 2008)

• An Ecological Oratorio: Automobile Exhaust and Heart Disease

News About Traffic Related Air Pollution

• China’s Skies: Toxic levels of Polutions (Photography)

• The Air We Breathe: How Connecticut’s air quality impacts our health; Radio show (January 2013)

• Beijing orders official cars off roads to curb pollution (January 2013)

• EPA Newsletter July 2012 — a focus on Air Research

from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency – Recent Updates  The Air Research issue of EPA’s Science Matters newsletter is now online.  Read more at http://www.epa.gov/sciencematters/index.htm

• A decades-long fight to bring clean air standards in line with environmental health science offers lessons for today.
• Antioxidants may reduce harm from air pollution, EHS Environmental Health News (Aug 2012)
• NIEHS energizes researches and community in Boston. By Eddy Ball, NIEHS Environmental Factor (May 2012)
• The free book “Air Pollution – Monitoring, Modelling and Health” Edited by Mukesh Khare is of interest to people interested in traffic related air pollution news. The following chapters are relevant to the CAFEH study:
•  Chapter 14 “Exposure to Nano-Sized Particles and the Emergence of Contemporary Diseases with a Focus on Epigentics” by Pierre Madl.
•  Chapter 17 “Particulate Matter and Cardiovascular Health Effects” by Akeem O. Lawal and Jesus A. Araujo.
• Stroke risk increase when air pollution was moderate in Boston area. By David Abel, Boston Globe (February 13, 2012)
• NY leads 11 states in suing EPA over soot rules. By Associated Press, www.wsj.com (February 10, 2012)
• Suit target dirty air: activist want monitors near highways. By Melissa Pamer, Silicon Valley MecuryNews.com (1/29/2012)
• No breath of fresh air: T cuts could be hazard. METRO Boston by Steve Annear (January 11, 2012)
• Scleroderma Study Brings Little Comfort By Meghan Irons, Boston Globe (January 25, 2010)
• L.A.-Area Air Pollution Could Dip from New EPA Rule on Ships By Louis Sahagun, December 23, 2009
• Highway Barriers Block Much More Than Sound By Noah Bierman, Globe Staff, December 20, 2009
• Pilot Study of High Performance Air Filtration for Classrooms Applications (October 2009)
• Blue-Collar Environmentalists Rise up in Calif. By Margot Roosevelt, Los Angeles Times (September 27, 2009)
• The New York City Community Air Survey (Results from Winter Monitoring 2008-09)
• Local Health Impact Studies 1995-2009