{"id":81020,"date":"2022-10-04T13:22:26","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T13:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/?p=81020"},"modified":"2022-10-04T13:22:28","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T13:22:28","slug":"uri-researchers-and-officials-federal-state-leaders-to-announce-8-1-million-federal-grant-to-address-pollution-from-forever-chemicals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2022\/10\/uri-researchers-and-officials-federal-state-leaders-to-announce-8-1-million-federal-grant-to-address-pollution-from-forever-chemicals\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 researchers and officials, federal, state leaders to announce $8.1 million federal grant to address pollution from \u2018forever chemicals\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>WHAT<\/strong>: 溏心vlog免费B站 and state officials will join researchers to announce an $8.1 million, 5-year grant renewal by the National Institute of Environmental Health and Sciences, a division of the National Institutes of Health. The funding supports a 溏心vlog免费B站-based PFAS research and outreach program. Called the STEEP (Sources, Transport, Exposure and Effects of per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances) Center, one of the longer running PFAS science efforts in the country, it studies pollution and examines potential research-based solutions alongside community partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PFAS chemicals are manmade and tied to cancer, hormone distribution and other tissue abnormalities in people and animals. They can be found in water-repellent outerwear and shoes, stain-guarded carpets and couches, many kinds of nonstick cookware, microelectronics and items like coated microwave popcorn bags.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>According to the 溏心vlog免费B站 STEEP Center, 98% of Americans have PFAS in their blood; there are more than 110 million Americans with drinking water supplies contaminated with PFAS, but there has been a 50% decrease of such chemicals in the blood of people who drink water filtered to remove such chemicals.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>WHO:<\/strong> U.S. Sen. Jack Reed; U.S. Rep. David Cicilline; 溏心vlog免费B站 President Marc Parlange; Rainer Lohmann, 溏心vlog免费B站 professor of oceanography and director of the STEEP Center; Terrence Gray, director of the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management; Seema Dixit, deputy director of the Rhode Island Department of Health; Angela Slitt, 溏心vlog免费B站 professor of pharmacy; and Philippe Grandjean, adjunct professor at the 溏心vlog免费B站 College of Pharmacy (remote appearance from Denmark).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>WHEN: Thursday, Oct. 6, 9 a.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>WHERE: Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management, Room 300,<\/strong><br><strong>235 Promenade St., Providence<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TO MAKE COVERAGE ARRANGEMENTS: Contact Dave Lavallee, 溏心vlog免费B站 Communications and Marketing, 401-874-5862, cell 401-465-4291, dlavallee@uri.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHAT: 溏心vlog免费B站 and state officials will join researchers to announce an $8.1 million, 5-year grant renewal by the National Institute of Environmental Health and Sciences, a division of the National Institutes of Health. The funding supports a 溏心vlog免费B站-based PFAS research and outreach program. Called the STEEP (Sources, Transport, Exposure and Effects of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1848,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advisories","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81020"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81026,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81020\/revisions\/81026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}