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.
Public Health Law Center
DECEMBER 10, 2016
These resources provide an overview of Kansas laws that support access to healthy and affordable local food and influence initiatives that provide healthier food environments. This publication was made possible with funding from KC Healthy Kids.
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Environmental Health News
MARCH 27, 2025
Santoyo is a community organizer at the Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment, one of the 200 coalition partners that, for over a decade, has pushed California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) to create a statewide notification system to let people know when potentially dangerous pesticides will be applied near them.
Environmental Health News
MARCH 26, 2025
Santoyo is a community organizer at the Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment, one of the 200 coalition partners that, for over a decade, has pushed California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) to create a statewide notification system to let people know when potentially dangerous pesticides will be applied near them.
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.
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.
KFF Health News
FEBRUARY 25, 2025
health official, Robert F. said the Trump administration would liberate Americans from the FDA’s “aggressive suppression” of vitamins, dietary supplements, and other substances ending the federal agency’s “war on public health,” as he put it. Last fall, before being named the senior U.S.
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