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Regional EPA awards honor Shannon, Dana-Farber

E-mail|Link|Comments (0) Posted by Elizabeth Cooney April 22, 2009 04:03 PM

State winners of the Environmental Protection Agency's Earth Day honors include a famed pediatric toxicologist and a hospital that stepped up its recycling.

A posthumous Environmental Merit Award for 2009 went to Dr. Michael Shannon of Childrens' Hospital Boston for his work in pediatric environmental health, particularly lead poisoning and appropriate drug formulation. Shannon died suddenly last month. He was 55.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute was singled out for its conservation, reduction, reuse, and recycling programs. In 2008 Dana-Farber collected 262.65 tons of various materials for recycling or reuse.

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Elizabeth Cooney is a former health reporter for the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, where she also was a business reporter and an editor. Earlier in her career, she edited medical books and journals at Little, Brown, and worked for Boston magazine.