Center to End Corporate Harm
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We have a vision of a just, healthy, and democratic society where public health policies are built on unbiased science, free of industry influence.
What do you think happens when you stack EPA's chemical advisory panel with chemical industry scientists? They will downplay the health risks of toxic chemicals and people will get sick. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...
E&E News: EPA stacks chemical advisory panel with industry, for-hire scientists
Toxicologists from Tesla, Lyondell Chemical and a notorious figure from Trump's first term are among EPA's newest expert chemical advisers.
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What do you think happens if you stack an EPA chemical advisory panel with chemical industry scientists? They will downplay the health risks of toxic chemicals. Classic example of corporate capture. And this will expose people to more toxics. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...
E&E News: EPA stacks chemical advisory panel with industry, for-hire scientists
Toxicologists from Tesla, Lyondell Chemical and a notorious figure from Trump's first term are among EPA's newest expert chemical advisers.
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This story from a few years ago highlights the problem of the rotating door between industry and regulators. Enacting financial conflicts of interest would go a long way to reduce this problem. revealnews.org/article-lega...
California’s pesticide chiefs: Where are they now? - Reveal
When the state’s top pesticide regulators step down, their influence over important public health and environmental issues continues. From overseeing water issues to representing a chemical giant, her...
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“They are mouthpieces for the chemical industry, or consulting firms bought and paid for by the chemical companies,” Olson said. #EPA #conflictofinterest www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Trump officials accused of stacking top chemical safety board with industry ‘mouthpieces’
Public health advocates warn of conflicts of interests and say panel likely to provide justification for key rollbacks
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New York is trying to hold #PFAS manufacturers accountable for the contamination they have caused. www.news10.com/capitol/pfas...
Did household cleaning products poison your drinking water?
New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed a lawsuit against five chemical companies, including 3M and DuPont, for allegedly polluting the state with toxic chemicals in everyday household it…
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“The evidence on the health harms of ultra-processed food is unequivocal, ... processed junk food has been reformulated to promote over consumption and patterns of intake similar to those observed in nicotine dependence,” wrote Chartres www.thenewlede.org/2026/06/rese...
Researchers call for urgent new policies to rein in ultra-processed foods
Wide consumption of ultra-processed foods is the product of a corporate playbook drawn up by “Big Tobacco” decades ago that is contributing to a rising tide of health problems, according to a series o...
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Have you noticed the trend? Reporters who cover climate and the environment are being cut and @yalee360.bsky.social says climate coverage has dropped every year over the last 4 years. What's up? Corporate influence. Great piece from @thenewlede.bsky.social www.thenewlede.org/2026/06/this...
This is the wrong time for major media to shut down environmental coverage
While media outlets cut environmental reporters, the impact of these losses on news coverage is real.
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NEW STUDY: Pregnant women are exposed to dozens of harmful chemicals every day, and they are having an impact on children's health. Meanwhile, the chemical industry is trying to gut America's chemical safety law, which would make things worse. #TSCA www.thenewlede.org/2026/06/comm...
Study connects common chemicals to preterm births, other health risks
A large study of chemical exposures during pregnancy has found that pregnant women are exposed to dozens of chemicals everyday, many of which are linked to preterm births and low birth weights. The ch...
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EPA needs to stop working for polluting industries. www.cnn.com/2026/06/08/p...
Exclusive: EPA scientists say they are being pushed to downplay potential risks of household products | CNN Politics
Inside the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency, scientists say they’re under pressure to alter safety reviews of chemicals commonly found in consumer products like household cleaner...
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Great coverage of latest research on ultra-processed food in the AJPH journal edited by our own @nickchartres.bsky.social #thenewtobacco #UPF www.bbc.com/news/article...
Ultra-processed food is global health threat, experts warn
It is increasing our risk of a range of chronic diseases, including obesity and depression, a major review says.
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Watch LIVE. Scientists affiliated with the Center presenting tobacco's role in the development of ultra processed foods at a briefing in Washington DC today hosted by @apha.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=ai4O...
Big Food’s Tobacco Moment: Evidence on the Harms of Ultra-Processed Food
YouTube video by American Public Health Association
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"The primary cause of disease used to be a living organism that transmits a pathogen like malaria from one person to another,” said Tracey Woodruff, a Stanford Univ researcher. “Now we have corporate organisms that lead to chronic, non-communicable diseases.” www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/31/p...
As plastics clog the Great Lakes, industry presses to make more and downplays dangers, Tribune analysis finds
More than 8 billion tons of plastic waste clog the planet. If stacked within Chicago’s Millennium Park, plastic dumped into the environment since the middle of the last century would rise beyond the e...
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The chemical industry has its hands all over this. www.cnn.com/2026/05/18/h...
Restrictions on ‘forever’ toxins in drinking water changed by Trump EPA | CNN
Key Biden-era regulations designed to protect the nation’s drinking water from the most dangerous cancer-causing per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, were removed by the Trump administration M...
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Big Oil executives knew decades ago that "catastrophic" climate change was coming. Instead of sharing that knowledge, they buried it. "By the time the global warming becomes detectable it could be too late to take effective countermeasures to reduce the effects or even to stabilise the situation."
In 1998, Shell Predicted It Would Be Sued Over Climate Crisis Someday
A new batch of documents shows the oil giant had grasped the dangers of burning fossil fuels by the 1980s.
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We're very excited for this event featuring @nickchartres.bsky.social and other experts on how ultra processed foods harm health.
UCSF Industry Documents Library@ucsf-industrydocs.bsky.social · 3mo agoJoin @amjpublichealth.bsky.social, leading scientists, & authors, including @c2ech.bsky.social, on 6/3 for the launch of new US-focused research on #UPFs & their impact on #publichealth 🗓 June 3 ⏰ 11 am ET/ 8am PT 📍 Washington, D.C. + virtual RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/big-foods-...
"Most global deaths are now caused by noncommunicable diseases like cancer, heart disease and diabetes. In many cases, these diseases are caused by industrial pollution or well-known consumer goods." #healthharmingcorporations #tobaccokills www.theexamination.org/articles/dea...
We figured out the deadliest company in the world. You’ve probably never heard of it.
China Tobacco’s products have likely caused at least 57 million deaths since 1990. No other company comes close, our analysis shows.
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"Dismantling the #research arm will significantly damage the agency and weaken the government’s ability to protect public health, according to more than two dozen current and former #EPA officials interviewed for this article." #ORD www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/c...
How the Trump Administration Ended Independent Science at the E.P.A.
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It is important to keep in mind that when environmental and health safeguards are eliminated or rolled back, it is because polluting industries have outsized influence on the political process. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Nearly half of US children are breathing dangerous levels of air pollution, report warns
American Lung Association report comes amid Trump EPA’s expansive rollback of environmental protections
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Utah just "made it nearly impossible for residents to hold fossil fuel companies legally accountable for climate damages." Four other red states are now considering similar laws. This is part of a push from Big Oil and its political allies to secure federal legal immunity—and it must be stopped.
‘A surrender to special interests’: alarm as Utah shields fossil-fuel companies
New legislation comes amid push from big oil, as critics warn polluters’ profits prioritized over Americans’ health
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Another example of corporations making claims that just don't add up. If it's a plastic cup, odds are it's not getting recycled, no matter what they say. grist.org/regulation/w...
Your 'widely recyclable' Starbucks cup is still trash
A new label promises single-use cups are recyclable. But that doesn't mean they actually get recycled.
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Thank you @arielwittenberg.bsky.social for this excellent story on the Center's paper on how health-harming corporations are manipulating science, public opinion, and avoiding regulations. www.eenews.net/articles/pap...
Paper tells how industries ‘shape the narrative’ on health threats
The study details how chemical and fossil fuel companies have followed the tobacco industry's playbook to skirt regulations.
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"To meaningfully address #glyphosate and other pesticide exposures, reforms are needed to remove financial conflicts of interest from the scientific process and peer review, and public funding for research must be increased” - Tracey J Woodruff deohs.washington.edu/news/sgs
Global scientists say regulators must address glyphosate’s strong links to health harms
Epidemiologists, toxicologists, cancer specialists meet in Seattle to review latest science tying widely used pesticide to disease, including cancer
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Want to learn what's in our new paper in the @nejm.org in under 30 seconds? Check out our infographic which highlights how the fossil fuel, chemical, and ultra processed food industries are harming health and how corporations hide the truth about the harms of their products.
Very excited to announce our paper on corporate vectors of chronic disease - and what can be done about it - published in NEJM! Congrats to all our authors including @nickchartres.bsky.social @feralyogi.bsky.social @drlauraschmidt.bsky.social @traceywoodruff.bsky.social DOI: 10.1056/NEJMms2507028
Ultra-processed foods are harming people's health. What many people don't know is the tobacco industry's role in creating the addictive flavors behind ultra-processed items. www.everydayhealth.com/pregnancy/ul...
Ultra-Processed Foods May Harm Fertility
A new study links ultra-processed foods to lower male fertility and reduced embryo growth. Here’s what may be driving these.
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PFAS manufacturers hid the harms of their product for decades and we're seeing more and more communities have to grapple with this toxic contamination. One solution? Remove industry influence from regulatory processes. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
In Our Blood: The Forever Chemicals Scandal review – no one should have to live like this
This upsetting documentary goes to the town with the most terrifyingly high levels of Pfas in the UK, tests the locals and finds that nothing has been done to help them – and now it’s simply too late
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EPA needs to remove influence of health-harming industries and get back to protecting people's health. earthjustice.org/press/2026/e...
EPA Yields to Industry in Air Pollution Rule for Chemical Manufacturing Plants
The final rule leaves communities around these facilities vulnerable to dangerous, cancer-causing air pollutants
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