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Events
Webinar: Corporate drivers of disease: Exploring the UCSF industry documents library
This May 29 webinar features UCSF's Center to End Corporate Harm, launched earlier this year to bring together scientists to more systematically...
Webinar: Communicating about EDCs & health: why words matter
In this July 8 webinar, Drs. Kevin Elliott and Laura Vandenberg will discuss the range of ways in which scientists can frame and present information...
Webinar recording: Changes at NIH: What do they mean for environmental health?
This May 8 webinar featured Dr. Linda Birnbaum, who discussed the implications of the Trump administration's changes for environmental health and the...
Policy and Regulations
EPA backs off stricter PFAS water rules while thousands of others are unregulated
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is walking back water limits for several toxic PFAS chemicals, sparking outcry from scientists and public...
Grist
New EPA reorganization may quietly dismantle chemical health watchdog
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is moving to gut its independent chemical risk program, potentially stalling regulation of dangerous...
Wired
Op-ed: To curb chronic disease in Americans, the FDA needs to assert regulatory control over toxic chemicals in our food
Editor's note: This op-ed was written by Frederick vom Saal and 15 co-authors. The full list of co-authors, their affiliations, and their contact...
EHN
Opinion: Kennedy’s food dye crackdown taps into deeper truths about America’s broken chemical safety system
A new federal push to eliminate synthetic food dyes highlights broader failures in U.S. food safety regulation and growing concerns about the health...
The New York Times
EPA shifts scientists from research to chemical approvals, raising alarm over independence
In a dramatic shake-up, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is moving dozens of scientists from its research office to chemical review roles,...
News and Information
Pew hiring staff for new EDC program
Pew Charitable Trusts has a new project that aims to measurably reduce Americans’ exposure to harmful endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs). Five...
Pew
RFK Jr. wants to cut off top medical journals from government scientists
U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says federal scientists may be banned from publishing in the world’s most...
The Washington Post
NSF grant funding falls by half as Trump administration slashes science budgets
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has cut research grant funding to its lowest level in more than three decades, affecting nearly every...
MAHA report admits chemicals and corporate influence are making kids sicker, but health advocates still have concerns
A new federal report links America’s chronic childhood health crisis to toxic chemicals, ultra-processed food, and corporate sway over science and...
The New Lede
Harvard’s public health school faces layoffs and funding chaos after federal grant freeze
More than 130 researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health lost federal funding after the Trump administration cut grants over the...
New Science
PCB chemicals may trigger multi-generational cycle of obesity
According to a recent study published in Obesity, women’s exposure to polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) chemicals was linked to an increased risk of...
Study highlights potential health risks of chemicals in ultra-processed foods
Synthetic chemicals migrating into ultra-processed foods from packaging and equipment may contribute to rising rates of obesity, heart disease, and...
Exposure to chemical mixtures linked to an increased risk of autism in children
While many previous studies have only considered the effects of individual chemicals, a recent study published in Environmental Research found that...
Flame retardant chemicals linked to continued health harms 50 years after exposure
Fifty years after the widespread contamination of animal feed left 6.5 million Michigan residents exposed to polybrominated biphenyl (PBB) flame...
New study fuels push for tighter rules on plastics and heart health
A global study suggests that daily exposure to a common plastic chemical may be contributing to hundreds of thousands of heart-related deaths among...
Cosmos
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