Toxic Recipe: EPA rollbacks, immunity for polluters, and increasing threats to public health

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In Brief:   EPA is proposing to roll back established protection from PFAS in drinking water. Furthermore, some lawmakers seek immunity for PFAS polluters. This double whammy to environmental protections will result in increased exposure to PFAS and higher rates of adverse health effects. This is contrary to the MAHA goals for reducing and preventing chronic … Continue reading Toxic Recipe: EPA rollbacks, immunity for polluters, and increasing threats to public health

Statement on Make America Healthy Again Commission report

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Dr. Tracey J. Woodruff, PhD, professor and director of the Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment and the Center to End Corporate Harm at UCSF issued the following statement upon release of the Make America Healthy Again Commission report. We welcome the MAHA Commission report’s recognition that toxic chemicals and corporate influence on science … Continue reading Statement on Make America Healthy Again Commission report

Dr. Woodruff testifies on threats to ORD and IRIS at Congressional shadow hearing

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At a shadow hearing held by the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, which conducts oversight of EPA, Dr. Tracey Woodruff testified that while most people have never heard of EPA’s Office of Research and Development (ORD) or the Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS), these programs provide vital and necessary information and serve as the … Continue reading Dr. Woodruff testifies on threats to ORD and IRIS at Congressional shadow hearing

We did the math. EPA’s calculations of male reproductive harm from DCHP are off by 50,000x.

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Despite decades of scientific research and evaluation linking phthalates to male reproductive harm and infertility, these chemicals remain largely unregulated in the United States. There is little indication this will change based on EPA’s recent draft risk evaluation of dicyclohexyl phthalate (DCHP), which relies on flawed scientific methods that significantly underestimate health risks. So, PRHE … Continue reading We did the math. EPA’s calculations of male reproductive harm from DCHP are off by 50,000x.

Industry sent their wish list to the new administration. What’s in it will make people sick.

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The following is a guest post by the Center to End Corporate Harm. The National Association of Manufacturers and the American Chemistry Council – the chemical industry’s trade group – sent a 21-page letter outlining what they want from the new administration. They were joined by coal, cleaning, manufacturing, trucking, and dozens of other industry … Continue reading Industry sent their wish list to the new administration. What’s in it will make people sick.

“Poison Papers” documents now at UCSF Library

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Thousands of previously internal industry documents called the “Poison Papers” are now freely available for public review and research in University of California, San Francisco’s Industry Documents Library (IDL). The “Poison Papers” include approximately 5,000 digitized copies of materials gathered primarily by Carol Van Strum, who reportedly collected over 100,000 documents from her battles with … Continue reading “Poison Papers” documents now at UCSF Library

Environmental health research is essential to tackle skyrocketing chronic disease

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Have you heard of a P30 Environmental Health Center? There are 26 of them in the U.S. funded by the National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences to investigate the health impacts of air and water pollution, chemicals in everyday products, microplastics, and other ways contaminants put into our environment affect people. These centers have been … Continue reading Environmental health research is essential to tackle skyrocketing chronic disease

EPA’s deficient evaluation of the carcinogen 1,3-butadiene leaves the public at risk

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You may not be familiar with the toxic chemical 1,3-butadiene, but it’s everywhere. The U.S. chemical industry makes and uses enormous quantities of it every year—from 1 to 5 billion pounds. It’s used to make materials like synthetic rubber and plastics. EPA’s evaluation of 1,3-butadiene under the Toxics Substances Control Act (TSCA) found that this … Continue reading EPA’s deficient evaluation of the carcinogen 1,3-butadiene leaves the public at risk

The chemical industry wants to block a new EPA rule protecting people from cancer-causing TCE – and Congress may help them

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Right now, Congress is considering overturning an EPA rule that would stop people in the U.S. from getting cancer, birth defects and Parkinson's disease from a toxic chemical that has already poisoned millions of Americans, including our soldiers.   TCE (trichloroethylene) is a highly toxic solvent linked to serious health harms, even at very low … Continue reading The chemical industry wants to block a new EPA rule protecting people from cancer-causing TCE – and Congress may help them