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Gordon Research Conference on environmental endocrine disruptors
This year's Gordon Research Conference on endocrine disruptors will be held June 28-July 3, with the accompanying Gordon Research Seminar on June...
Endocrine-disrupting chemicals: hazards and opportunities (ECHO) course
ECHO is a two-week intensive bootcamp-style career development course for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and professionals in the endocrine...
National PFAS Conference
The University of Arizona is hosting the National PFAS Conference, in person in Tucson on June 8-10, 2026. Applications for travel awards are due...
Webinar: Science for Public Health Policy: Understanding correlation and causation
This Jan. 8 webinar will discuss issues around correlation and causation. Understanding whether one thing truly causes another is one of science’s...
Webinar: CHE Cafe: How states can lead on environmental health
This Jan. 22 webinar features Susan Kaplan, author of A Healthy Union: How States Can Lead on Environmental Health, recently published by Island...
Policy and Regulations
“An escalating and underrecognised threat”: New report highlights chemical pollutions’ harm to men’s health
A new report published by the Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) details the evidence linking chemical pollution — including endocrine disrupting...
EHN
Ghost-written study backed Canada's most-used herbicide. Now retracted, it's raising red flags on approval process
The "cornerstone" cancer study that Canada's pesticide regulator used to approve the most common herbicide in the country has been retracted, raising...
National Observer
‘Silent epidemic of chemical pollution’ demands radical regulatory redo, say scientists
An international team of scientists has issued a stark warning that current toxicology and chemical regulatory regimes are failing to protect public...
Mongabay
New York City bill aims to ban toxic ‘forever chemicals’ in firefighting gear
A newly proposed New York City council bill would outlaw PFAS-laden firefighting gear and require water and blood testing for contamination, marking...
The Guardian
Pharma pushes back on state PFAS regulations
Drugmakers claim that broad state PFAS laws are overly burdensome. But environmental health experts aren’t convinced.
Undark
Endocrine Disruptors in the News
MAHA moms are angry at the E.P.A. Lee Zeldin is trying to win them back
A split is emerging within Trump’s base as health activists accuse Mr. Zeldin of leading the agency to prioritize chemical industry interests over...
The New York Times
Can endocrine-disrupting chemicals affect gender identity?
Some researchers are probing whether early exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals could influence gender identity, even as others warn the idea...
All SF firefighters will soon have equipment free of toxic ‘forever chemicals’
The San Francisco Fire Department will be the largest crew in the country to phase out PFAS chemicals from its protective gear.
KQED
Kennedy's health movement turns on Trump administration over pesticides
Supporters of US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are in open revolt over the Trump administration's approval of new, highly persistent...
France 24
Is plastic poisoning our children?
A sweeping new UNICEF report warns that children are being exposed to unprecedented levels of plastic chemicals and microplastics—from the womb...
The Week
New Science
Lou Guillette Jr Outstanding Young Investigator Award Winner: Dr. Shuo Xiao
Dr. Shuo Xiao of Rutgers University is the winner of the Lou Guillette, Jr. Outstanding Young Investigator award for 2025, sponsored by Healthy...
HEEDS
The importance of endocrine disruptors: An environmental prevention approach
As evidence grows linking endocrine-disrupting chemicals to long-term pediatric health risks, a new editorial argues that clinicians and health...
Science Direct
PFAS, or ‘forever chemicals,’ could cause more infant deaths and preterm births
Mothers in New Hampshire who were downstream of sites contaminated with “forever chemicals” experienced triple the rate of infant deaths, according...
The Washington Post
High PFAS exposure may affect women’s hormones, study finds
Women with higher levels of PFAS—so-called “forever chemicals” found in common consumer products—show increased signs of endocrine disruption,...
Euronews
Supposedly “safer” substitutes for BPA continue to drive metabolic disease globally
A recent analysis published by Science of The Total Environment found that exposure to bisphenol chemicals — including BPA and its replacements BPS...
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