Environmental & Occupational Health Programs
Main Subjects:
- Air Quality
Ambient air guidelines - Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
Fact sheets, safe generator use during power outages, press releases - Childhood Lead Poisoning
Resources for parents, home and property owners, physicians and others - Lead Poisoning Prevention Fund
Information and forms about paint fees and laws - Climate & Health
About our work to build capacity and develop public health adaptations related to climate change - Environmental Public Health Tracking
Information and data about environmental factors and public health - Warnings on Eating Fish and Game
Current safe eating guidelines, hints on preparing fish - Occupational Disease Reporting
Reporting requirements for physicians and hospitals - Drinking Water: Info for Private Well Owners
Brochures, factsheets, reports, MEGs - Factsheets for Real Estate Transactions
Arsenic treated wood, arsenic in wellwater, lead disclosure forms
Director: Andrew E. Smith, S.M., Sc.D.
News
- Press Release: Big Increases in Carbon Monoxide Detector Use Credited to Landlords and State Law (November, 2011)
- Press Release: State Offers Free Household Lead Test for Families with Young Children (October, 2011)
- Press Release: After Irene, Carbon Monoxide Poisonings Prompt Generator Safety Warning (August, 2011)
- Health Advisory: Maine CDC Issues Advisory as Nation's Heat Wave Approaches (July, 2011)