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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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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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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Mercola

JANUARY 14, 2025

Disclosure: This consumer study is released in partnership with Environmental Health News. Donations were provided by Environmental Health News and Mamavation community members. You can also give a tax-deductible donation to our consumer studies here through Environmental Health Sciences.

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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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HEALTHBEAT

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free Atlanta newsletter here. But questions remain about what steps local and state regulators took to prevent a fire at a facility with a track record of environmental violations, including similar accidents in 2020. Rockdale County says it will file a federal lawsuit.

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Institute of Public Health

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Set up prior to the signing of the Good Friday / Belfast Agreement in 1998, IPH has been shaping public health policy across the island of Ireland for 25 years. Shifting the focus of public policy’. And all of these, in turn, contribute to better health, creating a virtuous cycle.

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NC Health News

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Department of Health and Human Services pointed to a lack of resources and inadequate staff hampering their ability to keep up with complaints. But taxpayer money, such as the federal health insurance programs Medicare and Medicaid, shouldnt be used to reimburse facilities where people arent taken care of, she said.

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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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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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NC Health News

MARCH 30, 2025

The money was supposed to be allocated by June 2023, but in April of that year the Legislature revised the law to remove that deadline. million in the 2019-2020 fiscal year. appeared first on North Carolina Health News. Staffers the states crisis centers told ProPublica that payments were delayed for months. But that got lost.

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NC Health News

APRIL 12, 2025

By Rachana Pradhan KFF Health News Mass firings at the FDA have decimated divisions tasked with releasing public records generated by the agencys regulatory activities in sectors including tobacco, food, medical devices, and veterinary medicine. follow our coverage of health policy RFK Jr.s Kennedy Jr.s He declined to elaborate.

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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.

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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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NC Health News

MARCH 20, 2025

This would put North Carolina in line with federal law, which sets the age for purchasing tobacco at 21 something that health advocates have been pushing for. By making it a state law, state Alcohol Law Enforcement officials could also enforce it. Department of Health and Human Services.

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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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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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Environmental Health News

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The Max Environmental Technologies landfill has been out of compliance with requirements set under the Clean Water Act for most of the past three years and with the federal hazardous waste law, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, known as RCRA for short, since July 2023. times higher than upstream. I wouldnt eat the fish.

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KFF Health News

APRIL 10, 2025

Mass firings at the FDA have decimated divisions tasked with releasing public records generated by the agency’s regulatory activities in sectors including tobacco, food, medical devices, and veterinary medicine. KFF Health News agreed not to name the workers because they are not authorized to speak to the press and fear retaliation.

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KFF Health News

JANUARY 28, 2025

an environmental lawyer with no formal medical or public health expertise, as secretary of Health and Human Sciences. trillion, 80,000-employee federal health system. For decades , Kennedy has advocated for health-related ideas that are scientifically disproven or controversial. Kennedy Jr.,

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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

JANUARY 28, 2025

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeats free national newsletter here. an environmental lawyer with no formal medical or public health expertise, as secretary of Health and Human Sciences. trillion, 80,000-employee federal health system. trillion, 80,000-employee federal health system.

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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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