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Houston is struggling with many of the environmental problems that most of the nation’s major metropolitan areas are struggling with - transportation, water and air pollution, flooding, and major demographic…

A particularly valuable opportunity to improve public health arises when an urban area is being redesigned and rebuilt following some type of serious disruption, whether it is caused by a…

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As part of its core mission, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is tasked with assessing the hazards and risks to human health from exposure to pollutants. While some pollutants…