Environmental Health

"How Will Trump’s Covid Contrarians Handle the Next Pandemic?"

"President-elect Donald J. Trump had already succeeded in rattling the nation’s public health and biomedical establishment by the time he announced on Tuesday that he had picked Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to run the National Institutes of Health. But amid growing fears of a deadly bird flu pandemic, perhaps no one was more rattled than experts in infectious disease."

Source: NYTimes, 12/02/2024

"UN Plastics Treaty Talks Fail After Oil Producers Block Production Limits"

"Negotiations over the first legally binding UN treaty on plastic pollution collapsed in the final stage of discussions, after oil-producing nations led by Saudi Arabia and Russia blocked efforts by 100 countries to place limits on new production."

Source: Financial Times, 12/02/2024

Texas Reaches $12.6 Million Settlement On 2019 Port Neches Chemical Blast

"Texas reached a $12.6 million settlement with TPC Group over environmental violations related to the November 2019 explosions at the company’s Port Neches chemical plant, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Friday."

Source: Texas Tribune, 11/26/2024

"The Plastics Crisis Is Now A Global Human Health Crisis, Experts Say"

"Plastics can contain thousands of different chemicals, many of them linked to cancer and reproductive harm, and many never tested for safety. Multiple studies are now finding these chemicals, along with microplastics, throughout the human body, raising alarm among scientists about widespread health effects, including reduced fertility and increased obesity."

Source: Mongabay, 11/26/2024

"Court Deals Setback To Efforts To Regulate Pesticide-Coated Seeds"

"A federal court this week dealt a blow to calls for new regulations on pesticide-coated seeds used in farming, ruling that US regulators were not acting improperly in exempting the seeds from registration review."

Source: The New Lede, 11/25/2024

"The World Seeks an End to Plastic Pollution at Talks in South Korea"

"Many nations hope to reduce the half a billion tons of plastic made each year. But pushback from plastic and oil producers, and Donald Trump’s election, could scuttle an agreement."

Source: NYTimes, 11/25/2024

Pages

Subscribe to RSS - Environmental Health