California bans animal-tested cosmetics from the market
“I am proud that California is the first state in the nation to take a stand against cruel cosmetic animal testing.”
‘A vaccine for the world’: U.S. scientists develop low-cost shot to inoculate global south
"We make vaccines for diseases that the pharma companies won’t make."
Pesticides cause ‘catastrophic’ harm to people and planet, UN report says
“The overuse of pesticides has crippled agricultural ecosystems by helping to spur pest infestations.”
‘Public trust’—a key legal tool to preserve our natural resources
Law professor Mary Wood breaks down how people can protect their right to clean air, water, and land as well as fortify their climate change resiliency.
In New York Times op-ed, US physician blasts ‘lucrative system of for-profit medicine’
"Doctors' sense of our complicity in putting profits over people has grown more difficult to ignore."
How decades of factory farming paved the way for today’s superbugs crisis
There is a bigger issue here too—one that poses an existential threat to human health. Farms like this are central to the emergence and spread of so-called “superbugs.”
How workers and management at one company teamed up to fight the pandemic
PCI and Local 286 recognized early on the importance of protecting workers from the virus and preparing for a possible role in distributing vaccines.
Clean energy produces billions in health benefits, study finds
"This research shows that renewables pay for themselves through health benefits alone."
Today’s children will face lifelong health effects from the climate crisis
"Without immediate action from all countries climate change will come to define the health of an entire generation.”
Why Trump’s goon in charge of Medicare and Medicaid should resign immediately
Seema Verma’s attacks on Medicare and Medicaid, along with her close involvement in the Trump administration’s efforts to weaken and destroy the Affordable Care Act, have hurt Verma’s public image.