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Study: Hot Temperatures during Pregnancy: Evidence for an Impact on Fetal Growth
Environmental Health Perspectives (NIH) discusses a study showing that hot temperatures during pregnancy deleteriously impacts fetal growth.
Several environmental factors, including indoor1 and outdoor2 air pollution and exposure to certain chemicals such as organophosphate insecticides,3 may have negative impacts on fetal […]
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Chemical Industry Executive Nominated to Lead Consumer Watchdog Agency
The NY Times discusses how trump has nominated a chemical industry executive to lead the consumer watchdog agency.
President Trump has tapped Nancy B. Beck, a former chemical industry executive, to lead the Consumer Product Safety Commission, an independent federal agency charged with protecting the public against dangers […]
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Report: Food packaging can harm human health
Environmental Health News discusses how food packaging can harm human health. Recycled products and plastics alternatives can be particularly worrisome wrapped around our food, given the lack of testing.
Harmful chemicals in food packaging and other food contact materials can pose considerable risk to our health, according to a review […]
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Clean Water Wanted: Contaminated Wells And The Legacy Of Fossil Fuel Extraction
Ohio Valley Resource discusses how water is contaminated by fossil fuel extraction.
Chet Blankenship died from kidney failure soon after his family started noticing odd colors and smells in their well water. After he died, they got their water tested, and learned that arsenic was among the contaminants that had seeped […]
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Ocean plastic: How recycling creates tomorrow’s problems.
Environmental Health News discusses how recycling creates tomorrow’s problems for the oceans. Plastics recycled into food packaging – as one supermarket chain hopes – add troubling toxics to our food.
Sometimes plastic recycling is so much worse than just letting trash be trash.
But first, let’s thank European […]
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Sierra Club Insider, February 25, 2020
This weeks stories include discussions about JP Morgan not financing Arctic Refuge drilling, vegan diets, greenwashing the climate crisis, trump’s wall and its impact on endangered species, technology and climate change, birds and bees impacted by pesticides, the Supreme Court and pipelines, plastics, zero waste, and NEPA,
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EPA Closer to Regulating PFAS in Drinking Water (2)
Bloomberg Environment discusses EPA Closer to Regulating PFAS in Drinking Water (2).
Agency initial determination points to eventual limits to PFOS and PFOA
Agency accepting comment on other chemicals in same classThe EPA has made an initial determination that it will eventually set legal limits for levels of two key PFAS chemicals […]
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EPA moves to limit financial pressure on ‘forever chemical’ manufacturers under cleanup law
The Hill discusses how EPA is moving to limit financial pressure on ‘forever chemical’ manufacturers under cleanup law.
A proposal from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) would absolve the nation’s manufacturers of cancer-linked “forever chemicals” from broad financial responsibility for cleaning up their product as it leaches into the water supply […]
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FDA under scrutiny: Policymakers, advocates push for stronger science, regulation of the chemical BPA
Environmental Health News discusses the FDA. Policymakers, advocates push for stronger science, regulation of the chemical BPA. “The mindless clinging to outdated science is detrimental to public health and to the development of good science”.
Congresswoman Grace Meng (D-NY) was pregnant with her second child when she became concerned about […]
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Study: Babies frequently exposed to cleaning products at higher risk of asthma
CBC discusses a study that shows that babies frequently exposed to cleaning products are at a higher risk of asthma. Air fresheners, deodorizers, dusting sprays, hand sanitizers, oven cleaners singled out by study’s lead author. [No study link is provided.]
New research suggests frequent exposure to common household cleaning products […]
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