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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...
Webinar: Effects of chemical mixtures on ovarian function
In this Feb. 12 webinar, Dr. Shuo Xiao will introduce his lab research that focuses on integrating in vivo, in vitro, and in silico models to study...
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...
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...
Policy and Regulations
Judges signal support for ‘forever chemicals’ Superfund rule
A federal appellate court panel did not seem swayed by industry groups’ plea to toss EPA’s hazardous substance designations for two types of PFAS.
POLITICO
EU’s new PFAS drinking water rules fall short of stopping widespread contamination
New EU-wide limits and monitoring requirements for “forever chemicals” in drinking water have taken effect, but experts warn they focus on tracking...
Euronews
What to know about EPA’s move to limit ‘everywhere chemicals’
The Environmental Protection Agency will issue regulations to protect workers from phthalates, chemicals found in plastics that are linked to health...
The Washington Post
Hundreds of groups urge Congress not to weaken chemical safety law
Hundreds of environmental and health groups are urging Congress not to weaken the nation’s premier chemical safety law as Republican lawmakers signal...
The New Lede
EPA to boost worker — not consumer — protections for phthalates
EPA’s decision to craft regulations for six chemicals used to make plastics targets workplace and environmental risks, skirting dangers to the...
E&E News
Endocrine Disruptors in the News
PFAS blood-testing pilot finds elevated levels among Indiana firefighters
Indiana firefighters logged elevated levels of potentially hazardous PFAS chemicals in their blood serum, with some connections to the frequency with...
Indiana Capital Chronicle
Bayer gets boost as US Supreme Court says it will hear Roundup case
The US Supreme Court says it will take up the issue of federal preemption over pesticide warning labels, a move sought by Bayer as a means of...
Temple researchers remove PFAS with alternative method
Water providers are removing toxic PFAS chemicals from drinking water, but current methods are energy intensive. Temple researchers are looking at...
WHYY
Pesticides pose a political rift within RFK Jr.-aligned MAHA
Representative Chellie Pingree's fight was a rare instance of a Democrat tapping the political coalition associated with Kennedy.
The Boston Globe
PFAS levels are declining in Great Lakes fish, new research shows
The study, spearheaded by a federal research office that the Trump administration has since dismantled, shows fish responded quickly after...
Bridge Michigan
New Science
Microplastics research is at the center of a scientific controversy
A prominent scientist criticized microplastics research methods. Others are defending the work.
Prenatal inflammation linked to an increased risk of type 1 diabetes
An analysis of data from the All Babies in Southeast Sweden (ABIS) study published in Nature Communications shows that prenatal inflammation may...
EHN
Long-term exposure to chlorpyrifos linked to Parkinson’s disease
People from California farm communities that had long-term exposure to the insecticide chlorpyrifos were more than twice as likely to later develop...
Study links ‘forever chemicals' to liver disease in teens
They’re in your pans, your makeup and your clothes — and now, scientists say they may be quietly putting teens at risk.
New York Post
Exposure to plasticizer chemicals linked to hundreds of thousands of U.S. deaths each year
A recent study published by The Lancet Planetary Health examined the public health risks of exposure to a mixture of common plasticizer chemicals,...
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