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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.

Wisconsin

Environmental Toxins & Public Health
Children in nearly 55,000 Wisconsin homes – about 20,000 in Milwaukee County alone – are believed to have a high risk of lead contamination, placing the state 9th nationally for lead contamination risk. Wisconsin ranks in the top 20 percent of all states for children found to have high blood lead levels.

 

 

Contact Information

Jonathan Freedman studies environmental toxicology, especially the how organisms respond when they are exposed to toxic concentrations of transition metals, and the mechanisms of toxin-related disease, developmental abnormalities and carcinogenesis.
 tel: (919) 613-8037: e: jonf@duke.edu