Melissa Ahern 1998 graduate of Notre Dame High School in Lawrenceville, NJ is on Classmates.com. See pictures, plan your class reunion and get caught up with Melissa and other high ...
Melissa Ahern 1993 graduate of Cherokee High School in Marlton, NJ is on Classmates.com. See pictures, plan your class reunion and get caught up with Melissa and other high school ...
"A number of studies had found health risks associated with coal mining regions," including low birth weight, says health economist Melissa Ahern of Washington State University in Spokane, who led the study. Mountaintop mining, where coal seams are exposed by blasting off the tops of elevations, ha
The new study, "shows that places where the environment -- the earth, air and water -- has undergone the greatest disturbance from mining are also the places where birth defect rates are the highest," said Melissa Ahern of Washington State University, another of the study's authors.