1982 American Petroleum Instit...
Back in April last year, the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency decided it was “not necessary” to update the rules for toxic waste from oil and gas wells.
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For more than six months, twin brothers Ronald and Donald Schweitzer have watched large amounts of salty wastewater bubble up from the ground in their wheat field. The “saltwater purge” has killed three trees and several acres of crops on their northwest Oklahoma farm.
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Big Pharma spends a small fortune every year buying politicians to make sure we can’t import prescription drugs from Canada, but they’re more than happy to sell us contaminated medications from countries with weak manufacturing controls and exploitable labor that ensure high profit margins.
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Children from low-income families may be more susceptible to toxic environmental hazards such as lead exposure
read moreTHE WAR ON THE WAR ON CANCER
Trump’s Gutting of Toxics Regulations Will Mean Higher Profits for Polluters and Higher Cancer Rates for the American People
read moreWhy Is Air Pollution So Harmfu...
It’s not just a modern problem. Airborne toxins are so pernicious that they may have shaped human evolution.
read moreThe Plastics Giant and the Mak...
On the evening of January 6, Louisiana state regulators issued 15 key permits to the Taiwanese petrochemical corporation Formosa for its $9.4 billion plastics manufacturing complex proposed for the historically black area of St. James Parish.
read moreMake 2020 the Year of Less Sug...
One of the best things you can do for your health is to cut back on foods with added sugar. Our 7-Day Sugar Challenge will show you how.
read moreFederal Toxmap Shutters, Raisi...
The loss of the federal pollution tracker, supporters say, will inhibit public access to data on environmental hazards.
read moreThe Ganges Brims With Dangerou...
This sacred river offers clues to the spread of one of the world’s most daunting health problems: germs impervious to common medicines.
read moreHow Has This Pesticide Not Bee...
Government scientists say chlorpyrifos is unsafe. And yet it’s still in use.
read more‘Organic’ label doesn’t guaran...
This holiday season, Americans will buy some 20 million turkeys and 300 million pounds of ham.
read more‘Dark Waters’ tells the origin...
About a third of the way into the film Dark Waters, Rob Bilott, played by Mark Ruffalo, is lying in bed with his eyes open, looking anxious.
read moreThey Built a Life in the Shado...
Maine’s toxicologist isn’t alarmed by the results of an extensive air monitoring program, but people living near South Portland’s petroleum tank farms are panicking.
read moreGetting rid of pollution impro...
After decades of steadily declining, air pollution is once again on the rise in the United States. Between 2016 and 2018, pollution of fine particulate matter — tiny particles that are emitted whenever we burn anything — rose by more than 5 percent.
read moreThe Next Generation of Childre...
New study finds that hot weather increases the risk of early childbirth.
read moreIf Factory Farm Conditions Are...
n 2014, the Review on Antimicrobial Resistance, commissioned by the UK government and Wellcome Trust, estimated that 700,000 people around the world die each year due to drug-resistant infections.
read moreAmerica’s Red State Death Trip...
Why does falling life expectancy track political orientation?
read moreIRAQI CHILDREN BORN NEAR U.S. ...
MORE THAN A decade and a half after the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, a new study found that babies are being born today with gruesome birth defects connected to the ongoing American military presence there.
read moreRalph Nader: American Seniors ...
While the Democratic presidential candidates are debating full Medicare for All, giant insurance companies like UnitedHealthcare are advertising to the elderly in an attempt to lure them from Traditional Medicare (TM) to the so-called Medicare Advantage (MA)—a corporate plan that UnitedHealthcare promotes to turn a profit at the expense of enrollees.
read moreRobert Reich: It’s time ...
Any Medicare for All is better than our present system, but this second version is far better
read more‘The Game Changers’...
It turns out you can still be a high-performing athlete on a plant-based diet.
read moreIndonesia’s food supply ...
An eye-opening report reveals how low-grade plastics are burned as fuel, poisoning the surrounding soil and air.
read moreDwindling tropical rainforests...
Growing up in Tanzania, I knew that fruit trees were useful. Climbing a mango tree to pick a fruit was a common thing to do when I was hungry, even though at times there were unintended consequences.
read moreThe post-antibiotic era is her...
In the US, one person dies every 15 minutes because of drug resistance.
read moreCities Worldwide Are Reimagini...
At a time when most of humanity lives in cities, where do cars belong — especially the old, polluting ones that make city air foul for people to breathe?
read moreClimate change will affect “ev...
A baby born today will face higher risks of disease and undernutrition because of climate change, according to a new report in The Lancet.
read moreE.P.A. to Limit Science Used t...
The Trump administration is preparing to significantly limit the scientific and medical research that the government can use to determine public health regulations, overriding protests from scientists and physicians who say the new rule would undermine the scientific underpinnings of government policymaking.
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