Environmental Health News
DECEMBER 12, 2024
PITTSBURGH Around 13% of industrial facilities in Allegheny Countys environmental justice communities regularly violate federal clean air or clean water laws compared to just 3% of facilities in non-environmental justice areas, according to a recent study. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
NC Health News
JANUARY 18, 2025
In Wake County Superior Court, DEQ appealed the decision of Chief Administrative Law Judge Donald van der Vaart, who is also director of the Office of Administrative Hearings. DEQ or any interested person may request a public hearing on the EPAs objection to the permit. 12, 2024, ruling that revoked permit limits of 1,4-dioxane.
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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.
Mercola
JANUARY 14, 2025
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Environmental Health News
DECEMBER 5, 2024
For the fourth year in a row, Kansas lawmakers tried to pass a law that would block local plastic bans. As scientists and the public have learned more about the dangers of micro- and nanoplastics, local governments have passed laws restricting single-use plastics. Who is behind the laws blocking plastic bans?
NC Health News
MARCH 26, 2025
Five decades have passed since the initial anti-litter campaigns of the early 1970s, and since then, researchers have learned that not only is litter an eyesore, but some types of it pose health risks to humans and wildlife. Mounting research shows that plastic pollution is not just an environmental issue but a growing health concern.
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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