June 11, 2019
Stories about Health
June 4, 2019
Louisiana’s Cancer Alley Visualized
Between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, a trail of 150 petroleum factories creates a glaring backdrop of smokestacks behind the Mississippi River and a perpetual fog along the banks. Courtesy of its flat ground, an abundance of carbon-rich decay, and the Mississippi’s...May 26, 2019
Service Members Face Danger From More Than Enemy Fire
This Memorial Day we honor the military service of Americans who made the ultimate sacrifice defending our nation. In April of 2018, the Department of Defense provided Congress a list of contaminated U.S. military bases — the document, according to Healthline,...May 20, 2019
EPA Cutting Funds for Studies of Kids Health
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), have for more than two decades sponsored a network of centers that study children’s environmental health from before birth, but now the EPA has...May 14, 2019
Jury Awards $2 Billion to Couple Suing Monsanto Over Roundup Use
A jury in California awarded more than $2 billion to a couple who sued Monsanto saying that exposure to the weed-killer Roundup caused them to contract cancer, including $55 million in “compensatory” damages to make them whole for their injuries, and $2...May 13, 2019
Anesthetic gases a sneaky yet potent GHG
In anesthesiology, there are two primary gasses used to put patients under for their procedures–sevoflurane and desflurane. Generally during surgery whatever the patient does not inhale is pumped outside at a detriment to our planet because both gasses are...May 9, 2019
California Bans Pesticide That Harms Brain Development
Video: Earth Justice California’s tough environmental regulations — and its divide with the Trump Administration on all things environment — just got bigger. The San Francisco Chronicle and The Washington Post reported yesterday that California is...May 6, 2019
Tyson Foods Recalls 12 Million Pounds of Contaminated Chicken
The Department of Agriculture (USDA) ordered Tyson Foods to recall nearly 12 million pounds of frozen chicken strips because they may be contaminated with pieces of metal. There were six incidences of consumer complaints of metal in the chicken, three of which...May 2, 2019
Trump EPA declares that Roundup doesn’t cause cancer, despite thousands of lawsuits
This week the Environmental Protection Agency maintained in a new decision that glyphosate, the active ingredient in the widely used herbicide Roundup, does not cause cancer and is safe for human use. This decision comes despite thousands of lawsuits against the...April 5, 2019