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POSTPONED: North Carolina EDC working group 5th annual meeting
Previously scheduled for April 25, 2025, Healthy Environment and Endocrine Disruptor Strategies (HEEDS) has postponed its 5th Annual Meeting of...
Webinar: Children's health and the exposome
This April 15 webinar, Children's Health: Assessing impacts of the exposome, features Dr. Rémy Slama of the EU's ATHLETE research project. Dr. Slama...
Webinar: Childhood cancer and the environment: prevention opportunities
This April 24 webinar features Drs. Mark Miller and Catherine Metayer, and is sponsored by CHE Alaska.
EDC sessions at European endocrinology society meeting
The May 2025 Joint Congress of the European Society for Pediatric Endocrinology and the European Society of Endocrinology in Copenhagen features a...
Policy and Regulations
EU moves to ban widely used weedkiller tied to water and health risks
European regulators will ban the herbicide flufenacet in June due to its links to hormonal disruption, child brain development risks, and toxic water...
Agriland
EPA considers new rule that could limit cancer lawsuits tied to Roundup
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is weighing a rule that would block states from requiring cancer warnings on pesticide labels, potentially...
The Intercept
EPA rollbacks could endanger public health, experts warn
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's recent move to weaken air pollution and emissions standards could lead to more respiratory illnesses and...
Inside Climate News
Connecticut lawmakers revisit effort to ban single-use plastics
Connecticut legislators are once again debating a bill that would ban single-use plastic and polystyrene containers in restaurants, schools, and...
CT Mirror
Chicago officials push for stricter PFAS regulations to protect water
Chicago is exploring new ways to manage PFAS contamination as local officials push for stricter regulations to prevent the toxic chemicals from...
Endocrine Disruptors in the News
North Carolina ramps up response to PFAS contamination in drinking water
The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality is expanding its work to track, test, and clean up PFAS contamination across the state, with a...
Coastal Review
California launches statewide pesticide notification system
Byanka Santoyo’s voice breaks while she explains what SprayDays, California’s statewide pesticide notification system, launched on Monday, means to...
EHN
EPA dismantles decades of work on environmental justice
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is cutting staff and funding for environmental justice programs, shuttering its Office of Environmental...
Living On Earth
Bayer hit with another massive verdict over Roundup cancer claims
A Georgia jury just ordered Bayer to pay $2.1 billion to a man who says Roundup caused his cancer, marking one of the largest blows yet in the...
The Washington Post
Science Updates
Trump officials now reviewing NIH research funding, raising alarm over political interference
As the National Institutes of Health tries to restart its stalled grant process, new Trump-era oversight is injecting politics into decisions once...
Science
An open letter from EPA staff to the American public
Editor’s note: This op-ed was written by a group of current and former employees of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), who have asked to...
Opinion: Industrial chemicals are showing up in our blood, and no one’s stopping it
A growing body of research shows that donated blood is contaminated with industrial chemicals like PFAS, lead, mercury, and cadmium — and no one is...
Substack
Opinion: Trump’s environmental rollback could harm health and stall research
Despite pledging to reduce toxins, President Trump’s policies are rolling back environmental protections and slashing medical research funding,...
The New York Times
European universities court American scientists amid research crackdowns
American scientists are weighing moves to Europe as universities abroad offer refuge from Trump administration policies that have restricted research...
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