Environmental Health News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Millions of informal waste pickers, like those at Kenya’s Dandora dumpsite, play a key role in reducing plastic waste, but poor policies and health risks threaten their livelihoods. In short: Kenya banned plastic bags in 2017 and single-use plastics in protected areas in 2019, yet waste pickers still find such plastics piling up at dumpsites.

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The Hill

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

s goal of removing fluoride from the water supply faces challenges regardless of what role he plays on health care in the new Trump administration. The CDC has hailed water fluoridation as one of the top 10 greatest public health achievements of the 20th century due to its effect in drastically reducing tooth decay. Kennedy Jr.’s

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KFF Health News

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Exposure to PFAS, a group of thousands of compounds, has been linked to health problems including cancer, decreased response to vaccines, and low birth weight, according to a federally funded report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Not long after she moved, Valle started feeling sick. California Gov.

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HEALTHBEAT

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeats free national newsletter here. Valle worries that eating food from her farm and drinking the water, found also to contain arsenic, are to blame for health issues shes experienced recently. Californias Central Valley is one of the nations biggest agricultural producers.

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