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Stricter toxic chemical rules reduce Californians’ exposures

Environmental Health News

For example, levels of BPA, which has been used in plastic, thermal receipt paper and food can linings, decreased in people’s bodies after the chemical was listed under Prop 65 in 2013, but levels of bisphenol-S (BPS), a similar chemical linked to many of the same health effects, increased in people’s bodies.

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Ten years after her passing, Theo Colburn's legacy continues to grow

Environmental Health News

A Scientific Detective Story , along with Dianne Dumanoski and Pete Myers, the founder of Environmental Health Sciences (which publishes Environmental Health News). Pete Myers, Environmental Health Sciences It didnt take long, after meeting Theo Colborn in 1986, for me to realize she was on to something very big.

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High Levels of Toxic Flame Retardants Found in Everyday Products Made from Black Plastic

Mercola

According to the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences: 8 "Children are more vulnerable to toxic effects because their brains and other organs are still developing. Kids will often play with toys multiple days in a row until they tire of them." Several studies demonstrate that exposure is higher in children than adults."

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‘Living under this constant threat’: Environmental defenders face a mounting mental health crisis

Environmental Health News

“We’ve seen many generations grow,” said Jaime Absalón León Sepúlveda, founder and director of the Corporación Claretiana Norman Pérez Bello, which runs the home and has been sheltering human rights defenders from all over Colombia since 2003. “At

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LISTEN: Mokshda Kaul on making the clean energy transition work for all

Environmental Health News

And this is 2003 and I remember one of my uncles came home and he made fun of me, and he was like, "This is so stupid. So I still remember this, because it's, it's like, etched so vividly in my memory. I was in third grade and we had to make posters for something in school. Like, why are you concerned about the environment and the planet?"

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SPH Plugs In: Our Favorites This Fall

BU School of Public Health Blog

Gulp / Beth Haley Beth Haley (SPH‘24), a post-doctoral researcher with the Environmental Protection Agency and an alum of the PhD program in environmental health , recently enjoyed reading the New York Times bestselling book Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach. economy.

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Pollution From a Pennsylvania Landfill Caused Problems for Decades. Fracking Waste Made It Worse

Environmental Health News

Wastewater production, meanwhile, skyrocketed from around 168 million gallons per year before the boom in 2003 to more than 3.3 In 2023, the most recent figures, there were 929,216 tons of solid waste generated, and 96 percent of that was sent to landfills or waste treatment facilities. billion in 2023.