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"EPA to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution" [1]

"In a reversal, the agency plans to calculate only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, and not the monetary value of saving human lives, documents show."

Chemicals [2]
Climate Change [3]
Consumer [4]
Economy & Business [5]
Environmental Health [6]
Environmental Justice [7]
Environmental Politics [8]
Environmental Studies [9]
Health [10]
Laws & Regulations [11]
People & Population [12]
Pollution [13]
Science [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: NYTimes [17], 01/13/2026
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"The War Over a Weedkiller Might Be Headed to the Supreme Court" [18]

"The Supreme Court is poised to decide whether to take up a case involving weedkillers and cancer that could effectively curtail one of the largest waves of tort litigation in American history."

Agriculture [19]
Chemicals [2]
Environmental Health [6]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Pollution [13]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: NYTimes [20], 01/12/2026
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"EPA Plans To Give 11 Coal Plants A Free Pass On Toxic Ash Disposal" [21]

"The Environmental Protection Agency plans to let 11 coal plants dump toxic coal ash into unlined pits until 2031 — a full decade later than allowed under current federal rules."

Chemicals [2]
Energy & Fuel [22]
Environmental Health [6]
Environmental Politics [8]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Pollution [13]
Waste [23]
Water & Oceans [24]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Canary Media [25], 01/12/2026
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"Here’s Why New EPA Rules On ‘Everywhere Chemicals’ Could Fall Short" [26]

"The Environmental Protection Agency has announced plans to regulate five types of phthalates, chemicals that are widely used in plastics and other common products."

Chemicals [2]
Consumer [4]
Environmental Health [6]
Environmental Politics [8]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Pollution [13]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Washington Post [27], 01/09/2026
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Trump’s EPA Could Limit Its Own Ability to Strengthen Air Pollution Rules [28]

"In government records that have flown under the radar, the EPA is questioning its legal authority to revise pollution rules more than once when new science shows unacceptable health risks."

Air [29]
Chemicals [2]
Environmental Health [6]
Environmental Politics [8]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Pollution [13]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: ProPublica [30], 01/09/2026
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"Hundreds Of Groups Urge Congress Not To Weaken Chemical Safety Law" [31]

"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 Control Act (TSCA)."

Chemicals [2]
Environmental Health [6]
Environmental Politics [8]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Pollution [13]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: The New Lede [32], 01/08/2026
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"Environmental Health Perspectives Joins The ACS Publications Portfolio" [33]

"The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) is proud to announce that Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) has joined the ACS Publications portfolio. EHP is a globally respected journal with a legacy as a premier source for research findings at the intersection of the environment and human health."

Chemicals [2]
Environmental Health [6]
Environmental Politics [8]
Environmental Studies [9]
Government [34]
Journalism & Media [35]
Science [14]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
International [36]
Source: ACS [37], 01/08/2026
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FDA Misses Another Deadline To Ban Formaldehyde In Hair-Straighteners [38]

"The US Food and Drug Administration has missed its latest deadline to propose banning formaldehyde and certain formaldehyde-releasing chemicals from hair-straightening products, often used by Black women."

Chemicals [2]
Consumer [4]
Environmental Health [6]
Environmental Justice [7]
Laws & Regulations [11]
People & Population [12]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: CNN [39], 01/08/2026
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"New Dietary Guidance Pushes Whole Milk, Warns Against Processed Food" [40]

"The Trump administration released new dietary guidelines Wednesday that call for Americans to limit highly processed foods, such as those high in added sugars and sodium, and that endorse products that had once been discouraged by many nutritionists, such as whole milk, butter and red meat."

Agriculture [19]
Chemicals [2]
Consumer [4]
Environmental Health [6]
Environmental Politics [8]
Food [41]
Health [10]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: Washington Post [42], 01/08/2026
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Under Order, EPA Says It Will Propose Drinking Water Limit For Perchlorate [43]

"The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday said it would propose a drinking water limit for perchlorate, a harmful chemical in rockets and other explosives, but also said doing so wouldn’t significantly benefit public health and that it was acting only because a court ordered it."

Chemicals [2]
Consumer [4]
Environmental Health [6]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Pollution [13]
Water & Oceans [24]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [16]
Source: AP [44], 01/07/2026
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