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Events
Lou Guillette, Jr. Outstanding Young Investigator Award
HEEDS is now accepting applications for the 2025 Lou Guillette, Jr. Outstanding Young Investigator Award, due Sept. 30. Sponsored by Healthy...
Plastics, human health, and solutions symposium
On Sept. 22, 2025, The NYU Langone Health Center for the Investigation of Environmental Hazards, in collaboration with A Plastic Planet, is hosting...
ECHO symposium: Translating science to action
On Sept. 15, the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program is hosting a hybrid (online and in Bethesda MD) symposium to bring...
Webinar: ToxicDocs: A database of once-secret chemical industry documents
This Oct. 14 webinar describes the ToxicDocs dataset and website that contains millions of pages of industry documents about lead, asbestos, silica,...
Policy and Regulations
New UN science panel on chemical pollution launches with power struggles and funding fears
Negotiators from 100 nations have agreed to form the United Nations’ first scientific panel on chemicals and pollution, but unresolved questions over...
Chemistry World
EPA eyes artificial intelligence to speed up chemical safety reviews
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to deploy artificial intelligence tools to accelerate reviews of new chemicals, but experts warn that...
E&E News
Will the world ever be able to achieve a binding plastics treaty?
A global push to cap plastic production collapsed again in Geneva, as major producers like the U.S. and Gulf states resisted limits, stalling the...
Reuters
Doubts about prospects for global plastic pollution deal following collapse of Geneva talks
A sixth round of United Nations negotiations to curb plastic pollution collapsed in Geneva last week, with diplomats citing the United States’...
Draft of MAHA report disappoints RFK Jr. supporters seeking pesticide restrictions
A draft White House report on children’s health has stirred debate, falling short of many activists' hopes for sweeping reforms to agricultural...
The New York Times
Endocrine Disruptors in the News
Millions more Americans now exposed to toxic PFAS in tap water, new EPA data shows
Millions of people across the U.S. are now drinking water contaminated with PFAS chemicals, according to newly released federal testing data. Jasmine...
Newsweek
Plastic additives may be fueling a global sperm crisis
Scientists are warning that chemicals in everyday plastics are driving a steep worldwide decline in sperm counts, a trend accelerating over the past...
The Guardian
Bayer pushes state pesticide laws to block cancer warning label lawsuits
As legal battles over glyphosate-based weedkillers continue, Bayer is backing legislation across multiple states to shield itself and other pesticide...
Investigate Midwest
New biomarkers aim to track chemical exposure hidden in the human body
Scientists are working to improve how we monitor chemical pollution in humans as current tools fall short of detecting and assessing the many...
The Conversation
Sewage sludge used as fertilizer spreads PFAS pollution to farms, food, and water
A rural New York family discovered their well water was contaminated with human waste after a neighbor fertilized crops with sewage sludge, a...
The New Lede
New Science
HEPA air filters can help reduce air pollution’s cardiovascular impacts
In short: "High blood pressure remains one of the most important modifiable risk factors for cardiovascular disease. This research adds to growing...
EHN
Kennedy cuts funding for autism research related to chemical exposure
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., now head of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has eliminated a major government division studying...
ProPublica
New study links prenatal exposure to common pesticide with lasting brain damage in children
Children exposed in utero to the pesticide chlorpyrifos show clear signs of altered brain structure and reduced motor function, according to a new...
New research links forever chemicals to gene changes tied to cancer and autoimmune disease
Exposure to PFAS chemicals may alter gene activity in ways that contribute to cancer, neurological disorders, and autoimmune diseases, according to a...
Bariatric surgery less effective in teens with higher PFAS exposure, study finds
Teenagers with elevated levels of PFAS in their blood before undergoing bariatric surgery were more likely to regain weight in the years following...
The Hill
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