A history of success drives the ongoing struggle to clean up Cancer Alley
Cancer Alley communities in Louisiana are still fighting for a healthier environment for everyone.
Resistance at Standing Rock: The people from Oceti Sakowin camp
Water protectors answer a fundamental question: What happens if the pipeline gets completed?
Aetna Shows Why We Need a Single Payer
Two choice are emerging: one is a public single-payer system. The other is a hugely-expensive for-profit oligopoly with the market power to charge high prices even to healthy people – and to charge sick people an arm and a leg.
Privatized prison healthcare in the US—profiteering at the expense of inmate health
Profiting from pain—the harsh reality of privatized prison healthcare in America.
New study shows plastic pollution threatens human health on a global scale
“The heavy toxic burdens associated with plastic – at every stage of its life cycle – offers another convincing argument why reducing and not increasing production of plastics is the only way forward. Plastic is lethal, and this report shows us why.”
America’s dairyland may have a PFAS problem
First, there was Fred Stone, the third-generation dairy farmer in Maine who discovered that the milk from his cows contained harmful chemicals. Then...
The epidemic of e-cigarettes: Judge rules FDA must implements regulations, sides with public health...
“The FDA oversight over the sales and marketing of these harmful products has languished for too long."
German Environment Agency Finds Increase of Glyphosate in Urine Since 2001
In 2001 glyphosate was detected in the urine of only 10% of the participants, in 2013 it was present in just under 60% of the test group, and most recently in 2015, it was 40%.
Public health experts: Single-payer systems coping with coronavirus more effectively than for-profit model
“Having a healthcare system that's a public strategic asset rather than a business run for profit allows for a degree of coordination and optimal use of resources.”
Landmark study reveals gas stove emissions boost childhood asthma rates, adult deaths
The study, published Friday in Science Advances, represents the first time researchers have quantified the link between gas stoves and asthma from NO2 exposures inside homes.