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Last week, we hosted a parliamentary event with the Child Accident Prevention Trust on toxic chemicals in children’s toys, sponsored by Ruth Jones MP, ex-Shadow Minister for chemicals. Clinical and scientific experts spoke to MPs on why the UK must match the EU’s new updated toy safety regulation.

Scientific research is at stake. A proposed OMB rule could harm the U.S. research ecosystem. FASEB created a free 3-step tool to help scientists & scholarly societies submit impactful comments before July 13. Take action now: buff.ly/n5SmzFk #StandUpForScience

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Prenatal Exposure to OP Pesticides: Health outcomes & potential mechanisms Webinar next Tuesday 5/19! Please join us! Part of our Young EDC Scientists Showcase www.healthandenvironment.org/che-webinars...

Prenatal Exposure to OP Pesticides: Health outcomes & potential mechanisms

Organophosphates (OPs) are a common class of neurotoxic pesticides. Exposure at even low doses can disrupt healthy development, particularly during susceptible windows such as pregnancy. In this EDC.....

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EHS is hiring a Communications & Campaigns Manager ecojobs.com/job/environm...

Communications & Campaigns Manager Position - EcoJobs.com - Environmental Jobs & Conservation Jobs

Who we are: Environmental Health Sciences (EHS) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that advances endocrine disruption science and public understanding of the effects of endocrine disrupting chem...

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Great overview! Glyphosate: A story of science, risk, and nuance open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...

Glyphosate: A story of science, risk, and nuance

In the summer of 2014, a California groundskeeper named Dewayne Johnson started noticing patches of raw, weeping skin spreading across his body.

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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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Exposure to pollution is a choice, former EPA experts say in a new report. And Trump’s EPA is choosing to make Americans sicker.

Former EPA Staff Detail Expanding Pollution Risks Under Trump - Inside Climate News

The Trump administration’s relentless rollback of public health and environmental protections has allowed widespread toxic exposures to flourish, warn experts who helped implement safeguards now under...

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No one should have to worry about harmful chemicals in the water they drink or the food they eat. Our 2026 analysis finds at least 33 states are stepping up to address #PFAS, plastics, and other toxic chemicals. #StatesInTheLead Read more here: www.saferstates.org/press-room/e...

Despite the snow storm our Hill briefing is still ON. Join us on Capitol Hill Wed, Feb 25 at 11:30 am ET.

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Watch The Plastic Detox Documentary Trailer

The new documentary premiering March 16 on Netflix follows people waking up to the health-and-fertility impacts of everyday exposure to plastics and related chemicals.

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Interesting-- An Old Cholesterol Drug Could Help Clear PFAS pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

An Old Cholesterol Drug Could Help Clear PFAS

Highly exposed people have begun taking cholestyramine, but experts caution that evidence is lacking on whether the treatment improves long-term health.

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Environmental Health Perspectives joins the ACS Publications portfolio www.acs.org/pressroom/ne...

House Republicans say America’s premier chemical safety law is stifling innovation. Advocates disagree. Innovation “cannot come at the cost of future babies who will be born with plastics and plastic chemicals in their bodies,” said @plasticpollutes.bsky.social. www.thenewlede.org/2026/01/tsca...

Hundreds of groups urge Congress not to weaken chemical safety law

Hundreds of environmental and health groups are urging Congress not to weaken the nation’s premier chemical safety law as Republican lawmakers signal a willingness to reopen the Toxic Substances Contr...

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The December issue of HEEDS Endocrine Disruptor News is published! ehsciences.activehosted.com/index.php?ac...

NIEHS's only journal, Environmental Health Perspectives, has been removed from the web. EHP is one of just a few federally supported journals. While still findable on PubMed Central, the future of the over 18,000 items published by EHP is unclear. envirodatagov.org/niehss-only-...

NIEHS’s Only Journal – Environmental Health Perspectives – Is Suddenly Removed – Environmental Data and Governance Initiative

The NIEHS Environmental Health Perspectives home page on November 5, 2025  (left), and December 1, 2025 (right), after it was taken down. […]

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👇Webinar on how financial conflicts of interest and corporations influence the decision making process

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webinar Thurs. Dec. 11: Corporate influence on science in a shifting political landscape www.healthandenvironment.org/che-webinars...

Congratulations to our 2025 Lou Guillette Jr Outstanding Young Investigator Award Winner, Dr. Shuo Xiao! heeds.org/2025-lou-gui...

webinar Thurs. Dec. 11: Corporate influence on science in a shifting political landscape www.healthandenvironment.org/che-webinars...

Corporate influence on science in a shifting political landscape

Extensive empirical research demonstrates that financial conflicts of interest (study sponsorship and study authors with a financial conflict of interest from industries that have a stake in the...

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The chemical lobby has been spending millions of dollars to change the Toxic Substances Control Act. That's the main law that works to protect people from harmful chemicals. What does industry want? They want less oversight and less concern for your health. #badidea

🚨A report commissioned by @healthandenv.bsky.social highlights link between harmful #ChemicalPollution and rising #infertility and hormonal #cancer rates amongst European men. 🧪Key chemicals of concern include endocrine disruptors, #PFAS, and heavy metals. More in our news story👉 buff.ly/iRljN9V

For decades, researchers warned about chemicals harming children's health. Few listened. Now Kennedy's in the Trump admin, championing similar concerns. Birnbaum calls it a "dance with the devil", risky, but an opportunity too significant to ignore.

The Cultural and Political Moment for Toxins Research

A longstanding push for urgent action on environmental toxins is landing in an unprecedented time in American politics.

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Air pollution, even at low levels, may heighten breast cancer risk, via US Right to Know usrtk.org/healthwire/a...

Air pollution, even at low levels, may heighten breast cancer risk

Women who live in areas with more air pollution may face a higher risk of developing breast cancer, according to a new, large-scale study.

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The EPA just approved the pesticide cyclobutrifluram for golf courses, lawns, cotton, soybeans, and lettuce. It's another #ForeverChemical — one of a group called #PFAS. Despite the vast agency furloughs, the pesticide office remains open for business. Read on ➡️ bit.ly/47qlFKO

Did you know that more than 1 billion pounds of pesticides are used in the US every year? And they don't just disappear. They pollute the air, water, and soil long after they're applied. Tell the EPA to ban #pesticides that other countries already consider too dangerous to use ➡️ bit.ly/4otOUCz

Plasticizers linked to changes in kidney function www.ehn.org/plasticizers... #phthalates #endocrinedisruptors

Plasticizers linked to changes in kidney function

A nation-wide study of U.S. adults published in the Annals of Medicine found that markers of exposure to phthalate plasticizers were associated with changes in kidney function. In short:Due to regulat...

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Please join Beyond Plastics Science Director @trishavv.bsky.social, @amizota.bsky.social of Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, and Ryan Babadi of @toxicfreefuture.bsky.social on Nov. 12 for a free webinar about toxic chemicals in plastics. www.beyondplastics.org/events/toxic...

DYK that this Thursday, 10/9 is Children's Environmental Health (CEH) Day? Don't have plans yet?? Check out our partner network's CEH Day celebratory activities on their website below. The day's events are co-sponsored by R2 PEHSU!! nyscheck.org/cehday/

NEW An EPA report found that PFNA, a chemical in the drinking water of some 26M people, interferes with development and likely causes liver problems & male reproductive harms. The report was done in April, scientists told me. But the agency hasn't released it www.propublica.org/article/epa-...

Scientists Completed a Toxicity Report on This Forever Chemical. The EPA Hasn’t Released It.

Agency scientists found that PFNA could cause developmental, liver and reproductive harms. Their final report was ready in mid-April, according to an internal document reviewed by ProPublica, but the ...

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BOBBY JR. DOESN'T CARE ABOUT TOXINS Many microplastics are carcinogens and endocrine disrupters "One researcher told NPR that she’d had a federal grant canceled on the very same day RFK Jr. had favorably cited her work on microplastics in seafood in a speech." www.motherjones.com/environment/...

RFK Jr. promised to take on plastic. Now he's part of an administration embracing it.

Plastic is everywhere—including in us.

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