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Bayer’s new Roundup products more toxic than prior formulations, report asserts

Environmental Health News

consumers contain chemicals that pose greater health risks to people than prior formulations suspected of causing cancer, according to an analysis by an environmental health advocacy group. But it does set what it calls a ‘chronic reference dose’ for individual chemicals.

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Op-ed: A stalled global plastic treaty threatens our future fertility

Environmental Health News

The entire plastic life cycle harms our health A 2024 study from Europe estimates that approximately 16,000 chemicals play a role in the life cycle of plastic production. Very few have been tested and data on their hazard to human and environmental health is sparse. Why is this concerning?

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Amid Wildfire Trauma, L.A. County Dispatches Mental Health Workers to Evacuees

KFF Health News

. “There was a mental health crisis even before the pandemic,” said Patel, who is also a clinical associate professor of pediatrics at Stanford School of Medicine, referring to the covid-19 pandemic. “The pandemic made it worse.

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Earl Grey Teas Tested for PFAS 'Forever Chemicals' — Guide

Mercola

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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Ghee Tested for Toxic Phthalates — Buying Guide

Mercola

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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As smoke from BioLab fire hovers over metro Atlanta, so do questions about danger of pollution

HEALTHBEAT

Public health officials insist the air, fouled by burning “chlorines, chloramine and chlorine compounds,” is safe to breathe but have released few details. People in Atlanta may experience watery eyes and scratchy throats that should subside as the air clears, said Carmen Marsit, a professor of environmental health at Emory University.

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Op-ed: Labor and environmental groups can both win in the clean energy transition. Here’s how.

Environmental Health News

“In order to transition workers from one sector, you have to create a plan that will allow for those workers to have sustainability afterwards,” one environmental justice organization that engages with the unions, referring to the closure of Indian Point, told me. That’s the number one lesson to be learned.”