EPA Stops Collecting Data on P...

Aug 7, 2019 by

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.

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Oopsie, this popular ‘composta...

Aug 7, 2019 by

Hello, it’s me: your friendly neighborhood environmental journalist, here to ruin your day. Or the very least, your lunch.

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Merck Continues to Make Hundre...

Aug 2, 2019 by

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.

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‘Toxic Stew’ Stirred Up ...

Jul 16, 2019 by

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.

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California first U.S. state to...

Jul 10, 2019 by

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.

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Government’s Own Pro-vaccine M...

Jul 3, 2019 by

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.

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Wait: Galway Kinnell’s Beautif...

Jun 28, 2019 by

“To decide whether life is worth living is to answer the fundamental question of philosophy,” Albert Camus

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California Dr. Bob Sears Expos...

Jun 28, 2019 by

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.

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Half of America’s Kids Suffer ...

Jun 28, 2019 by

It is hard to imagine a country where half of the children born will be diagnosed with autism.

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Outrage at the California Stat...

Jun 24, 2019 by

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.

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Parents Seeking Non-medical He...

Jun 24, 2019 by

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.

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Russia and U.S. Take Action to...

Jun 21, 2019 by

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.

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A Nation Where Half of the Chi...

Jun 21, 2019 by

At today’s rate, by 2025, one in two children will be autistic.1

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The Normalization of Corruptio...

Jun 20, 2019 by

The 21st century organized crime lords—the pharmaceutical industry—archetypal la cosa nostra mafia-like cartels, have risen to unprecedented dominion over humanity.

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E.P.A. Finalizes Its Plan to R...

Jun 19, 2019 by

Loading coal at the Spring Creek Mine in southern Montana. The mine’s owner, Cloud Peak Energy, declared bankruptcy in May.

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A changing tide

Jun 18, 2019 by

Florida’s summer of slime turned its politics upside down.

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The bitter legacy of the East ...

Jun 17, 2019 by

Residents of an EPA superfund site have struggled since being pushed out of their homes.

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Customers to demand Kroger sto...

Jun 17, 2019 by

For National Pollinator Week, shoppers will push grocery giant to help stop “bee apocalypse”

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Virginia ban on uranium mining...

Jun 17, 2019 by

The largest-known U.S. uranium deposit will remain firmly under ground after the Supreme Court on Monday upheld Virginia’s ban on mining the radioactive metal, rebuffing a challenge backed by President Donald Trump’s administration to the 1982 moratorium.

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Mental Health Problems—The Sad...

Jun 13, 2019 by

College campuses are witnessing record levels of student mental health problems, ranging from depression and anxiety disorders to self-injurious behaviors and worse.

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There Is Something Called “For...

Jun 12, 2019 by

The FDA found that chocolate cake had levels over 250 times that of federal guidelines.

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Is Health the New Design Imper...

Jun 11, 2019 by

Expert Carl Seville speaks to healthy building program certifications and processes that are gaining popularity.

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Fumes from the Petroleum Tanks...

Jun 10, 2019 by

As South Portland, Maine, embarks on an air monitoring program, day care providers, the mayor and our reporter begin the search for answers.

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Remember the BP Oil Spill? The...

Jun 10, 2019 by

With respiratory ailments, heart-palpitations, headaches, memory loss, skin rashes, and bloody sores.

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Global Aquaculture Poses Serio...

Jun 7, 2019 by

That red and rich piece of salmon that you’re eating for dinner may not have been the ocean-roaming creature you imagine.

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Family Matters

Jun 7, 2019 by

The town that online shopping built — and women are trying to save

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How Come the “Settled Science”...

Jun 7, 2019 by

How often have you read or heard, “Vaccine science is settled”?

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North Carolina’s poultry...

Jun 5, 2019 by

All eyes have been on the state’s hog farms, while its poultry operations have quietly tripled in number over the past two decades with little oversight.

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Children take U.S. government ...

Jun 4, 2019 by

The health of young people is disproportionately harmed by climate change, and the government has failed to keep them safe.

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We cannot have Environmental J...

Jun 3, 2019 by

Abortion access is critical and necessary to our health and well being of our environment

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