• Health

New Reports Document How Trump Administration’s Rollbacks Harm Infants and Kids

• children
• kids
• lead
• safe drinking water
• toxins

Two new reports from the Union of Concerned Scientists explain in detail how this administration’s rollbacks of bedrock environmental, health and safety standards have exposed children to more poisons in the food they eat, the water they drink, and the air that they breathe and has actively suppressed the science that would give us a greater understanding of how children are uniquely affected by chemicals and toxins. 

Why This Matters:  The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) says no safe blood-lead level for lead has been found for children — they should not be exposed at all.

• Health

EPA Cutting Funds for Studies of Kids Health

• EPA
• health
• kids
• NIEHS
• research
• war on science

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 decided not to renew the support when it runs out in July. 

• Politics

Green Wave Rising in Europe Fueled by Kidpower

• Belgium
• climate change
• CO2
• emissions
• France
• FridaysForFuture
• kids
• protests
• yellow vests

Yesterday, 30,000 school children again turned out for protests in three cities across Belgium after an open letter to the government from 3,450 Belgian scientists saying “the activists are absolutely right”.  Children’s climate rallies and protests are spreading across Europe — taking place in Germany and Switzerland too with the #FridaysForFuture, according to the BBC.  There was even a sit-in at the Scottish Parliament. 

• People

One Kid Thing: Marine Wildlife Art Contest – Enter by Jan 31!

• art
• endangered species
• kids
• oceans
• SDG 14
• sustainable development
• United Nations
• wildlife

The International Fund for Animal Welfare is teaming up with the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on an art contest for kids from 4-18 to celebrate World Wildlife Day (WWD) on 2019!  The theme for WWD 2019 is Life Below Water so this year’s […]