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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Frontiers

MARCH 24, 2023

Through high school and college, I continued to spend my summers farming and eventually started my own mixed-vegetable operation, which I ran between 2009 and 2019. Ecosystem health, and by extension human health, have been treated as externalities for too long. The work was very rewarding. They are also very heterogeneous.

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Big Cities Health Coalition

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The Big Cities Health Coalition (BCHC), representing the leaders of health departments serving nearly 61 million Americans, calls on the incoming Administration and Congress to enhance support for local public health systems.

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Public Health Law Center

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Rural Transportation: Unique Considerations (2019) This resource provides an overview of unique considerations for rural transportation systems, with a focus on communities in Kansas. Understanding how Kansas laws and traffic regulations impact bicyclists and pedestrians on roads and sidewalks is critical to ensure the safety of these users.

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Smart Data Collective

MAY 27, 2021

Industry-wide regulations in web scraping and other forms of automated data collection are practically non-existent and we probably shouldn’t expect any in the near future. However, there are a sufficient number of other pointers that can help us stay on the right side of the law and ethics. Non-)Public data.

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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?

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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

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free national newsletter here. GEO Group, one of the nation’s largest private prison contractors, filed a federal lawsuit last month against California officials to strike down a state law allowing local public health officials to inspect immigration detention facilities.

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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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KFF Health News

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

GEO Group, one of the nation’s largest private prison contractors, filed a federal lawsuit last month against California officials to strike down a state law allowing local public health officials to inspect immigration detention facilities. District Court for the Eastern District of California.

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The Hill

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Reproductive health advocates expect President-elect Trump to reinstate a rule that weakened the country's sole federally funded family planning program during his first term once he returns to office next year. million low-income or uninsured Americans, according to health policy research nonprofit KFF.

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HEALTHBEAT

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free national newsletter here. By the time she arrived, she said, “My brother was swollen up from hands to toes.” “Employee suffers from heat exhaustion while doing landscaping,” said an investigation into the incident from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

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