Mercola

JANUARY 18, 2025

Ashleys unique perspective bridges the gap between optimal health practices and sustainable farming, offering invaluable insights into how our food systems and dietary choices profoundly impact well-being. Ashley began her health journey alongside her sister, Sarah, under the moniker "Strong Sisters."

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Mercola

MARCH 29, 2025

Ashleys unique perspective bridges the gap between optimal health practices and sustainable farming, offering invaluable insights into how our food systems and dietary choices profoundly impact well-being. Ashley began her health journey alongside her sister, Sarah, under the moniker "Strong Sisters."

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NC Health News

JANUARY 13, 2025

Holder echoed Atevas assessment of the unequal effect of climate events on people: It’s easy to see climate change as an important issue to think about with a health equity lens, because the impacts are different for different populations. NC Health News reporters look ahead into health policy for the new year.

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Environmental Health News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Disseminating public health guidance and research are critical functions of the Department of Health,” said Talor Musil, a field manager at the Environmental Health Project during the press conference. The Department of Health also said it would begin work on an updated review of the literature on health and fracking. “CNX

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Association of Health Care Journalists

JANUARY 7, 2025

According to a report by the National Centre for Environmental Health , saltwater in Hilton Head, North Carolina, is encroaching at a rate of 400 feet per year from the Atlantic Ocean into freshwater drinking systems. Air pollution from fossil fuels has many well-documented health effects.

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Environmental Health News

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The talks in South Korea last week ended with a revised document that leaves much unsettled. UN representatives said the document will serve as “a starting point” for renewed negotiations next year. However, when it comes to tackling plastics on a global scale, consensus remains elusive.

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Mercola

OCTOBER 22, 2024

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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KFF Health News

APRIL 9, 2025

Even with full funding, the legislation could face implementation problems similar to those plaguing the 9/11 programs, including complex eligibility criteria, difficulty documenting that illnesses are service-related, and more recently long waits to enroll amid seesawing federal attempts at cutbacks.

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Environmental Health News

OCTOBER 30, 2024

A brief history of citizen-based policing and public parks There is a longstanding and well-documented history of citizen-based policing in and around urban public parks in the United States. This way of policing perpetuates a history of exclusion of Black and Brown people from the outdoors.

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Mercola

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

Ashley’s unique perspective bridges the gap between optimal health practices and sustainable farming, offering invaluable insights into how our food systems and dietary choices profoundly impact well-being. Ashley began her health journey alongside her sister, Sarah, under the moniker "Strong Sisters."

Environmental Health 82

Environmental Health 82

Mercola

MARCH 3, 2025

According to a major study published in The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) by the Consortium for Childrens Environmental Health, these diseases now rank among the leading causes of illness and death for young people. Researchers have tied several childhood diseases to specific synthetic chemicals over the years.

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Mercola

JANUARY 22, 2025

A study published in Environmental Health Perspectives discovered that prenatal exposure to polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) is associated with lower cognitive and physical development scores in children up to 6 years old. He wrote his Ph.D.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Investigating the supply chain and its health implications could resonate with U.S. Carla Ruas: Yes, one of our follow-ups involved analyzing the Monsanto Papers, a collection of internal documents released during U.S. Are you working on follow-up investigations? lawsuits against the pesticide manufacturer.

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Environmental Health News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

There's so much documented evidence at this point that electric vehicle tax credits, residential solar tax credits, tend to benefit wealthier households, which are from like a higher income status or a higher socioeconomic status in the US, and I'm talking about specifically here. But who is it leading to a relative increase for?

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KFF Health News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

In March, Puerto Rico declared a public health emergency after a spike in cases there, where dengue is endemic. million documented through August, up from 6.5 million in 2023, according to the World Health Organization. Meanwhile, worldwide dengue cases are on track to more than double this year , with 12.3

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Mercola

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

In an era where food choices can significantly impact both personal and environmental health, the distinction between grass fed and grain-fed beef has never been more relevant. 13 Phytochemicals are secondary compounds found in fruits and vegetables that are well documented to have a number of health benefits.

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Environmental Health 75

HEALTHBEAT

OCTOBER 8, 2024

“People will talk about vulnerable communities as if there is a problem with these communities, when in fact it is our systems and policies that have created these failings,” said Darya Minovi, a senior analyst at the Union of Concerned Scientists who studies environmental health and justice.

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Environmental Health News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

For example, in a DOE document released in August, the agency reported that EQT Corporation, the second-largest natural gas producer in the country, would host community listening sessions and work toward establishing a community advisory committee for its projects in the Appalachian hydrogen hub.

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Environmental Health News

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Some of the companies have environmental violations documented by the state’s TCEQ or the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In addition to climate related concerns, recent studies have documented flares’ health impacts. For example, Chevron Phillips Cedar Bayou plant has 545 TCEQ violations since 2011.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

EPA’s resources and guidelines : The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has a collection of resources and guidelines for PFAS in drinking water. Though these tests can be expensive, they may provide peace of mind and data to support decisions on water treatment.

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Environmental Health News

APRIL 22, 2025

It sublimates transforming from a solid to a gas and oxidizes into sulfur dioxide, a well-documented respiratory irritant and hazardous air pollutant. Its rarely mentioned in conversations about pesticide drift or environmental health. Once applied to crops, it doesnt just stay in the soil. It carries only a Caution label.

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Environmental Health News

APRIL 3, 2025

The consequences are well-documented: significant damage to pipes, a historic outbreak of Legionnaires disease, system-wide lead contamination. Eleven years ago Flint, Michigan, fatefully switched its drinking water supply to the Flint River. My then-three-year-old son was one of the children who drank that lead-tainted water.

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Environmental Health 121

Environmental Health News

APRIL 3, 2025

The consequences are well-documented: significant damage to pipes, a historic outbreak of Legionnaires disease, system-wide lead contamination. Eleven years ago Flint, Michigan, fatefully switched its drinking water supply to the Flint River. My then-three-year-old son was one of the children who drank that lead-tainted water.

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Environmental Health 103

NC Health News

DECEMBER 1, 2024

The document, created in 2017 , explored ways of ensuring the financial stability of water utilities. Members of the state Water Infrastructure Authority, a body tasked with financial planning for the state’s water and sewer utilities, gathered in October to ponder updates to North Carolina’s water infrastructure master plan.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

MARCH 12, 2025

Journalists are caught in a monkey-in-the-middle-like state of documenting news that is volleying chaotically between impending problems and ones that have been temporarily stopped. And yet, many problematic effects are continuing, often with far less coverage than the initial warning flares about the worst scenarios.

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Environmental Health News

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

As they documented operations at Max Environmental Technologies, they climbed fields of blackened waste and photographed pits, mud, debris, stained walls and unlabeled storage containers. We dont know why DEP would do that especially since it is an EPA document, he wrote. The MWA later published the document on its website.

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BU School of Public Health Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

” Madeleine Scammell, associate professor of environmental health Ever since she secured her first NIH grant to study the effects of heat on workers in Central America, Madeleine Scammell , associate professor of environmental health, has dedicated the bulk of her career to advancing our understanding of heat and health.

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Environmental Health News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

This document seems like a great model for how to do this all right,” Lauren Piette, a senior associate attorney for EarthJustice’s clean energy program, told EHN. This document seems like a great model for how to do this all right. The problem is we’re just not seeing any of it done yet.”

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Environmental Health News

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

In a statement to Inside Climate News in December, Carl Spadaro, the environmental general manager at Max Environmental, said initial testing of its treated waste showed compliance about 90 percent of the time, which is consistent with historical results.

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KFF Health News

DECEMBER 23, 2024

She cited an environmental consultant’s assessment that the health risk is “below the risk posed by simply walking down the street and breathing air that includes car exhaust.” ” But some environmental health experts say it’s not only a facility’s day-to-day operations that are cause for concern.

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NC Health News

JANUARY 2, 2025

Jaymie Baxley Tracking the evolution of multiple environmental health issues statewide In 2025, North Carolina Health News environmental coverage will include tracking the spread of the highly pathogenic avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu.

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