Carole Bass

Workplace Health & Environment

This Is Your Brain on Nano-Silica: Patients of the future might find doctors injecting tiny bits of silica into their brains. Tomas Guilarte wants to find out whether that’s safe.; publication: New Haven Independent; published: May 2010; read article online
Despite Hype, Pratt & Whitney Study Shows Cancer Increase: The second phase of a massive study found somewhat elevated brain cancer rates at one Pratt & Whitney Aircraft factory. You wouldn’t know that from the headlines.; publication: New Haven Independent; published: June 2010; read article online
Carbon Nanotubes: The New Asbestos?: These tiny cylinders — wondrously strong and light — are among the most common nanomaterials. They’re also the ones producing the most alarming health and safety studies.; publication: Occupational Health at Work; published: January 2010; download article
Radio interview: KDHX in St. Louis: Jean Ponzi of KDHX in St. Louis interviewed me about the risks of nanoparticles.; publication: KDHX Radio; published: September 2009; read article online
Solving a Massive Worker Health Puzzle: The largest workplace health study ever conducted is applying cutting-edge techniques to investigating an apparent cancer cluster—and highlighting the reasons why science doesn’t always protect us at work; publication: Scientific American; published: March 2008; download article
As Nanotech’s Promise Grows, Will Puny Particles Present Big Health Problems?: Amid the great promise nanotechnology offers, big questions remain on health dangers posed by exposure to tissue-penetrating particles; publication: SciAm.com; published: February 2008; read article online
Killed in the Line of Work: Connecticut legislators missed a chance to help keep poisons out of the workplace.; publication: New York Times; published: June 2007; download article
Worked to Death: Pratt & Whitney Aircraft leaves behind a trail of cancer.; publication: New Haven Advocate; published: August 2001; download article
Cancer Factories?: Rare deadly tumors show up in Pratt & Whitney’s East Hartford workers, too.; publication: New Haven Advocate; published: February 2002; download article
On the Job: The novel is set a century ago, but workplace tragedy is still with us.; publication: New Haven Review; published: August 2007; download article
Yale’s Big Green Experiment: A world-class university gets serious about its environmental footprint.; publication: Yale Alumni Magazine; published: November 2007; download article
Toxictown, Connecticut: The ghosts of polluters past haunt the town of Cheshire. They haunt us all.; publication: New Haven Advocate; published: January 2000; download article
(Nano)Silver Bullet: Your toothpaste and computer keyboard might be pesticides. As manufacturers lace more and more ordinary household goods with germ-killing nano toxins, federal regulators — and the environment — struggle to keep up.; publication: The New Republic; published: May 2008; read article online
Nanotech: The Unknown Risks: “It’s green, it’s clean, it’s never seen — that’s nanotechnology!” That exuberant motto, used by an executive at a nanotech trade group, reflects the enthusiasm about nanotechnology, now used in everything from computer keyboards to toothpaste. But the motto is open for debate. For while nanotech does hold clean and green potential, it also poses possible serious risks to the environment and human health — risks that researchers have barely begun to probe, and regulators have barely begun to regulate.; publication: Yale Environment 360; published: June 2008; read article online
The Risks and Rewards of Nanotechnology (radio interview): New Hampshire Public Radio’s “Word of Mouth” show interviewed me for a segment on nanotechnology.; publication: New Hampshire Public Radio; published: July 2008; read article online
OSHA, Inspect Thyself: Pushed out for blowing the whistle on OSHA’s failure to protect its own employees, Adam Finkel is still trying to get the workers’-health agency to do its job.; publication: Alternet; published: July 2008; read article online
Amory Lovins: Energy Efficiency is the Key: The world’s biggest untapped energy source, according to energy expert Amory Lovins, is efficiency. But don’t call it “conservation.”; publication: Yale Environment 360; published: November 2008; read article online
Why Is Black Lung Back? Tracking An Epidemiological Mystery: Black lung disease used to be nearly as common as dirty fingernails among American coal miners. Now it’s back: After a 90 percent drop, the rate of the deadly illness has doubled in recent years. Federal scientists are trying to find out why.; publication: New Haven Independent; published: January 2009; read article online
Tiny Troubles: How nanoparticles are changing everything from our sunscreen to our supplements.; publication: E Magazine; published: July 2009; download article; read article online

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