America is in the midst of a l...
Since the Flint drinking water crisis erupted five years ago, Americans have realized that many cities and towns struggle to ensure safe water.
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Agency proposes to allow industrial ocean fish farm discharge of untreated fish waste and other toxins directly into Gulf of Mexico
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For a century, the industry has used fumigants to farm berries year-round.
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Houses, several churches, and an elementary school would all be about a mile away.
read moreAir Monitoring Reveals Troubli...
Residents in South Portland, Maine, packed a meeting to find out about the noxious fumes fouling the air they breathe. The news, one official said, was bad.
read moreMedications Can Raise Heat Str...
As climate change brings dangerous heat waves, too little is being done to better warn patients or physicians of the growing risk, medical experts say.
read more‘The next Flint,’ and America’...
Tell me if you’ve heard this one before: A U.S. city is facing a public health crisis, after years of denying that it had a problem with lead in its drinking water supply.
read moreTop CDC Health and Climate Sci...
He’s one of several federal scientists working on climate change who say they have been silenced, sidelined or demoted under the Trump administration.
read moreWe’ve got another ozone proble...
Most of us know ozone as that benevolent stratospheric layer that absorbs the sun’s harmful UV light and keeps us safe.
read moreTainted Pork, Ill Consumers an...
Drug-resistant infections from food are growing. But powerful industry interests are blocking scientists and investigators from getting information they need to combat the problem.
read moreAnother Death in Louisiana’s C...
On August 7, after Geraldine Mayho’s funeral, her body was laid to rest in the St. James Catholic Cemetery in southern Louisiana, across the street from a cluster of oil storage tanks.
read moreEnvironmental racism is bad fo...
Two new books highlight how pollution is corrupting the bodies — and minds — of people of color.
read moreEPA Stops Collecting Data on P...
EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler exempted farms from reporting hazardous air emissions from animal waste. Prior to this action, farms that emitted 100 pounds or more of ammonia or hydrogen sulfide per day into the air were required to report to local agencies.
read moreOopsie, this popular ‘composta...
Hello, it’s me: your friendly neighborhood environmental journalist, here to ruin your day. Or the very least, your lunch.
read moreMerck Continues to Make Hundre...
Sales of Merck’s measles vaccine, the MMR combo vaccine that also includes mumps and rubella, continues to soar as Merck reported this week that in the second quarter of 2019, sales for the measles vaccine were 58% higher than the year before, at $675 million.
read more‘Toxic Stew’ Stirred Up ...
New research shows that the extreme weather and fires of recent years, similar to the flooding that has struck Louisiana and the Midwest, may be making Americans sick in ways researchers are only beginning to understand.
read moreCalifornia first U.S. state to...
California has become the first U.S. state to allow some undocumented immigrants to have full health benefits paid for by taxpayers, after Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed the bill into law Tuesday.
read moreGovernment’s Own Pro-vaccine M...
Earlier this year (2019) investigative independent journalist Sharyl Attkisson ran a report on Dr. Andrew Zimmerman, a world-renowned pediatric neurologist whom the U.S. Government used in 2007 to testify in the U.S. Vaccine Court that vaccines did not cause autism.
read moreWait: Galway Kinnell’s Beautif...
“To decide whether life is worth living is to answer the fundamental question of philosophy,” Albert Camus
read moreCalifornia Dr. Bob Sears Expos...
California pediatrician Dr. Bob Sears recently testified at the California State Assembly hearing considering SB 276, which would prevent doctors from writing medical exemptions to childhood vaccines without the approval of California State health officials, appointed by politicians.
read moreHalf of America’s Kids Suffer ...
It is hard to imagine a country where half of the children born will be diagnosed with autism.
read moreOutrage at the California Stat...
Following a five-hour hearing in which hundreds of parents spoke in opposition to tightening California’s school immunization requirements, the Assembly Health Committee easily passed a contentious bill Thursday to do just that.
read moreParents Seeking Non-medical He...
While this may appear to be something illegal (and it probably is), Zadrozny seems to present these people who are using fake Facebook accounts as heroes.
read moreRussia and U.S. Take Action to...
Russia’s Ministry of Health is proposing legislation that would block public discussions about vaccines that could be perceived as discouraging people from getting vaccinated.
read moreA Nation Where Half of the Chi...
At today’s rate, by 2025, one in two children will be autistic.1
read moreThe Normalization of Corruptio...
The 21st century organized crime lords—the pharmaceutical industry—archetypal la cosa nostra mafia-like cartels, have risen to unprecedented dominion over humanity.
read moreE.P.A. Finalizes Its Plan to R...
Loading coal at the Spring Creek Mine in southern Montana. The mine’s owner, Cloud Peak Energy, declared bankruptcy in May.
read moreThe bitter legacy of the East ...
Residents of an EPA superfund site have struggled since being pushed out of their homes.
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