• Answers to our online questionnaire generate a "healthy home score" for various contaminants in your home, including radon, carbon monoxide, lead paint, mold, lead in water, and asbestos. Recommendations for home test kits that screen for these items are also provided.

Education

• Interpretation of your questionnaire results, information about the related health risks, and additional resources

Solutions

• Simple, affordable, steps to reduce potential health hazards in your home and additional support services (including financial assistance and service providers) as needed.

READ ABOUT CLEANdirt IN THE NEWS!

In the SmartPower Spring 2004 Newsletter & In the Worcester Telegram and Gazette

Costs of Preventable Childhood Illness: The Price We Pay for Pollution
A growing body of scientific literature implicates toxic exposures in childhood illnesses and developmental disorders. When these illnesses and disabilities result from environmental factors under human control, they can and should be prevented.
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Second National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals
The Report is the second in a series of publications that provide an ongoing assessment of the exposure of the U.S. population to environmental chemicals using biomonitoring. Biomonitoring is the assessment of human exposure to chemicals by measuring the chemicals or their metabolites in human specimens such as blood or urine.
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Consider the Source -- Farm runoff, chlorination byproducts, and human health
From the Environmental Working Group, January 8, 2002
THE FIRST EVER NATIONWIDE ASSESSMENT OF CHLORINATION BYPRODUCTS IN TAPWATER FINDS 137,000 U.S. PREGNANCIES AT HIGHER RISK OF MISCARRIAGE, BIRTH DEFECTS
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Asbestos in the News

Articles in the Alliance for Healthy Homes April and May 2004 newsletters