Environmental Health Related Topics 
The Hill
APRIL 3, 2025
Staff members who fought childhood lead exposure and those who worked on cancer clusters were among those fired from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), a now former employee told The Hill. This division works on issues such as asthma and air pollution, climate change and health, childhood lead poisoning and cancer clusters.
NPR Health
APRIL 15, 2025
The National Center for Environmental Health was hollowed out in the cuts of 10,000 federal health workers on April 1. That's the same day an assessment of people hurt in floods was set to begin. Image credit: Sean Rayford)
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Climate for Health
AUGUST 29, 2023
ecoAmerica’s column in the National Environmental Health Association’s Journal of Environmental Health, “Staying Cool in a Changing Climate: Caring for Health in Extreme Heat” by Nicole Hill, MPH, and Ben Fulgencio-Turner, MPP, CPH is now available in the July/August 2023 issue.
Environmental Health News
MARCH 5, 2025
Pollution from these industries pose numerous environmental health concerns, including increased exposure to other carcinogens like benzene. THEA produced this video op-ed to highlight the cumulative impacts of multi-source pollution on environmental health in Highlands, Texas.
Association of Health Care Journalists
DECEMBER 17, 2024
Katie Burke, a science journalist and editor based in Virginia, has joined AHCJ as the new environmental health beat leader. “This is such an important subject, and Katie’s going to be a great guide for the increasing number of health care journalists reporting on the implications of climate change in particular.”
Environmental Health News
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
Birnbaum , scientist emeritus and former director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and adjunct professor at the University of North Carolina and Yale University, told Mamavation. Research suggests that even very low levels of exposure to these chemicals can be harmful.
The Hill
APRIL 15, 2025
The Center for Environmental Health nonprofit has sent violation notices to 50 retailers including AMC Theaters, Dollar General and Burger King that have reportedly exceeded California's Proposition 65 limits. The Center for Environmental Health urges companies to use a safer alternative to BPS, such as vitamin C thermal paper.
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