Tuesday, July 15, 2025

2.3 million Americans exposed to high levels of strontium in drinking water

High strontium in drinking water is linked to rickets in children, an extremely rare skeletal condition causing soft, sometimes deformed, bones.

House Republicans Fight to Cut Important School Lunch Programs

Lunch programs as they are now already receive meager funding. The $13 billion allocated to them is only 2% of our national defense budget.

EPA shuts down leaking oil refinery in St. Croix over ‘imminent’ public health threat

“This is a majority-Black island in a U.S. territory. It is located next to public housing. If this refinery were located most anywhere else in the country, it would have been shut down months ago.”

Fast food with a side of fluorinated chemicals

Fast food packaging from popular spots like McDonald’s and Starbucks contains a potentially harmful chemical that leaches into the food.

Just 12% of people in the U.S. consume over 50% of the country’s beef,...

With their findings, which were published in the journal Nutrients, the researchers hope to influence the 12% of people eating a disproportionate amount of beef to make switches to other, lower-emissions protein sources.

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Get dumped food to the hungry

In America, the so-called wealthiest nation on earth, tens of millions go hungry while food is dumped because no one in government can get it together to get it to them.

Trump administration bans CDC from using these words

A CDC analyst said he was unable to recall a previous time when words were banned from budget documents because they were considered controversial.

Tear gas is way more dangerous than police let on — especially during the...

In the middle of a respiratory pandemic, law enforcement agencies have used tear gas in especially dangerous ways. The chemical agent also seeps into homes, contaminates food, furniture, skin and surfaces, and can cause long-term lung damage.