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Global warming clouds our future. Pollution degrades our air, soil and water. Environmental toxins compromise the health of our children. Misuse threatens the sustainability of our forests, fisheries, wetlands and coasts, and the health of species that live there.

But there is reason for hope.

Through sound science and policy research, we're finding answers to these problems. Airborne lead and acid rain have been dramatically reduced. Industrial water pollution has decreased. Habitats are being preserved.

Faculty members from the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University are part of the effort to help find these answers and establish new environmental practices and policies to safeguard our natural resources for generations to come.

To contact our experts or learn more about what we're doing in states across the nation, click on the state you're interested in.

Environmental Toxins & Public Health
Washington’s 47 active Superfund waste sites heighten concerns about the risk of contamination to soil and water in surrounding communities, particularly in King, Spokane, Kitsap and Pierce counties, where 30 of the 47 sites are clustered. Lead contamination is a concern in many of the Evergreen State’s older and poorer neighborhoods and cities. More than 44,000 Washington children live in homes at high risk for lead hazards.

 

 

Contact Information

Richard Di Giulio heads the Duke Superfund Basic Research Center where he studies the toxicology of certain Superfund chemicals that can leach into surface and groundwater and pose environmental and human health risks.
tel: (919) 613-8024: e: richd@duke.edu