"Louisiana residents living near industrial areas are at a greater risk of experiencing learning disabilities, anemia miscarriage and many other health conditions according to a new research study based on data from Medicaid claims made in the state."
https://veritenews.org/2026/04/16/coda-dillard-industrial-air-pollution/
#PublicHealth #environment #CleanAir #AirQuality #AirPollution #toxins #chemicals #medicaid #research
Getting policy makers to listen to the researchers is always a challenge.
@bich Agreed. The City/County Managers I dealt with were pretty reasonable. I taught the students to prepare three documents for any potential policy issue; something less than two minutes (the elevator speech), a two page point paper for department heads or City Manager, and then a well documented piece that include appropriate data.
Sounds like a fun class!
@bich The exciting part was taking a student to a department head meeting and their face as they saw action based on their own work...
I love those light bulb moments!
@bich Oh, And by "available", I mean to researchers and policy makers....Hoping the the policy makers listen to the researchers....