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Davis said that for many workers, towns like Donora could be a mixed blessing. The smoke could kill you or harm your children, she said, but at the same time “smoke meant money and smoke meant jobs.”
Among the studies she cited, many of them conducted by Harvard scientists, was one that related lead levels in the bloodstreams of young children to those children’s intelligence quotients. Miniscule increases in lead levels, Davis said, cause measurable—and even significant—declines in...
Davis, who served during the Clinton administration on the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board, also blasted the Bush administration’s environmental policies.
“Let’s not kid ourselves, this administration gives new meaning to the term ‘crackpot science,’” Davis said.
Davis said industrialized nations need to seriously rethink their energy policies. “We can do more with less in many ways today,” she said, adding that “we need to move ourselves off a carbon-based economy onto a renewable-based economy.?...