Staff and faculty at the Lowell Center for Sustainable Production at UMass Lowell are experts in a wide range of topics and are available to speak with the media.  To find the right spokesperson for your story, contact Cathy Crumbley, 978-934-2980, .

Lowell Center staff and faculty could speak about the following sustainability topics: 

• Safer, Cleaner Industry Solutions
• Chemicals Policies
• Toxic Chemicals
• Precautionary Principle
• Health Effects of Chemical Exposures
  • Links to asthma and cancer
• Emerging Chemicals and Materials
• Assessing Safer Materials
• Safer Materials for Healthcare
  • Preventing needlestick injuries

Press Releases

February 19, 2008--New Guide Gives States Options to Revamp Chemical Policies in Lieu of Outdated and Disjointed Federal Regulatory System

February 19, 2008--Report Identifies 4 Reasons Toys and Other Products with Hazardous Chemicals Slip Through the Regulatory System--Companion Report Offers Solutions for States

January 16, 2008--UMass Lowell Report Finds Massachusetts Leads in Clean Technologies

July 6, 2007--Study supports new approaches to reverse rising asthma rates (issued by Children's Hospital, Boston)

August 26, 2006--Lowell Center for Sustainable Production at UMass Lowell Announces Nationwide REACH Workshops

September 19, 2005--UMass Lowell Report Links Environmental and Occupational Exposures to Cancers

In the News

March 26, 2008, New York Times
'Green' chemistry comes to the forefront

March 2008, Environmental Health Perspectives
Chemical Reaction: The U.S. Response to Reach

March 1, 2008, Lowell Sun
Clean Tech touted at forum on the economy

February 2008, Environmental Health Perspectives
Face to Face with Toy Safety: Understanding An Unexpected Threat

January 10, 2008, MTB Europe
Lack of nanotechnology safety roadmap hindering companies

December 22, 2007, New York Times
Everyday Items, Complex Chemistry

December 18, 2007, CBC News
Giving Gifts that Last

December 11, 2007, The Sun Chronicle
On the hunt for toxic toys

December 3, 2007, The Boston Globe
Toxin in Toyland

October 11, 2007, Boston Globe
Lead tests raise red flag for lipsticks
Hazardous levels found in one-third of market samples

August 29, 2007 Channel 5 TV
Toxic Chemicals in Toys

June 22, 2007, Boston Globe
Boston Foundation gives $28 million in grants

June 18, 2007, Boston Globe
She hopes to limit the enviornmental impact of dolls

June 12, 2007, Lowell Sun
Experts testify on alternatives to toxins

April 3, 2007, New York Times
Drugs are in the Water, Does it Matter?

January 8, 2007, Chemical & Engineering News
The future of U.S. chemical regulation: Two views on whether current law overseeing commerical chemicals in the U.S. is tough enough

November 29, 2006, Boston Globe
Oversight gap cited on waste at Danvers site

November 19, 2006 San Francisco Chronicle
TOXIC TOYS, San Francisco prepares to ban certain chemicals in products for kids, but enforcement will be tough--and toymakers question necessity

October 22, 2006, MetroWest Daily News
Hospitals clean out allergy, asthma triggers

July 13, 2005, Los Angeles Times
EPA is faulted as failing to sheild public from toxins

June 12, 2005, Boston Globe Op-Ed
Action on Toxics Crisis

February 15, 2005, Boston Globe
One million nanotubes could fit into this period. They're in products everywhere...but could they be dangerous?

November 22, 2004, USA Today
Green Chemistry Takes Root

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