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Op-ed: Is plastic the biggest climate threat?

Environmental Health News

As people from around the world are gathering in New York for the UN-sponsored Climate Week, it is past time the world focused on the threats to climate from plastics. For decades the fossil fuel industry has rightly been a target for climate action. They believe their future is plastics. A study from the U.S.

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Climate and health: Stories to watch in 2025

Association of Health Care Journalists

While climate coverage often focuses on heat, its health impacts have a broader audience appeal. Climate change affects air pollution, diseases and extreme weather. Medical schools across the United States are increasingly incorporating climate change and health into their curricula.

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Reviewing food and farming policy in the Biden administration: a focus on food equity, climate policies and farmers

Environmental Health News

President Bidens administration reshaped food and agriculture policy by addressing corporate consolidation, investing in climate-smart farming, restricting pesticides and improving nutrition security programs. 3, and updated lead limits in baby food, though some experts argue more restrictions are needed.

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Trump's budget proposes steep cuts to NIH, health funding

The Hill

The White House on Friday revealed President Trump's budget request for fiscal 2026, which includes cutting a quarter of the discretionary funding designated to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The only health program that gains discretionary funding in the proposal is HHS Secretary Robert F. This includes a $3.6

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What’s coming for 2025? NC Health News reporters look ahead into health policy for the new year.

NC Health News

Its been little over a year since the measure took effect, and we now have a clearer picture of what it accomplished: more than 600,000 low-income North Carolinians received health insurance through expansion, surpassing in just 12 months a milestone the state estimated would take at least two years to reach.