Annie Hoang joins the Agents of Change in Environmental Justice podcast to discuss how the U.S. fails workers when it comes to toxic exposures, and how researchers can advocate for safer workplaces.
Former EPA officials, state regulators and other risk assessment experts are urging EPA and other regulatory bodies to craft new science policy to guide the transition toward use of new alternate methods (NAMs) of toxicity testing that do not rely on animal tests, arguing at a recent workshop that their use will not advance without the new policies.
After his father died in 2013 from a cancer that started in his kidney, Michael Hickey was troubled by more than his grief. John Hickey was 70, never smoked and rarely drank.
Features Michael Green from the Center for Environmental Health and Tracey Woodruff from the University of San Francisco.
The lawyer who helped ban chlorpyrifos on food crops warns that the EPA decision creates obstacles to banning other dangerous pesticides.
Scientists and environmentalists are urging EPA to use its delay in meeting statutory deadlines to issue its first TSCA risk management rule for methylene chloride to bolster the science behind such rules, and to use the authority it gained in the reformed chemicals law more aggressively to address environmental justice and other concerns.
Did you know that vaginal odor is the cause of unhappy marriages and broken homes? At least that’s what this 1950s Zonite douching ad wants you to believe.
Working long hours poses an occupational health risk that kills hundreds of thousands of people each year, the World Health Organization says.
Fifty-five chemicals never before reported in humans were found in pregnant women, according to a study from the University of California San Francisco. The chemicals likely come from consumer products or industrial sources, researchers say.
The US Environmental Protection Agency underestimated by nearly 40% the number of deaths linked to methylene chloride exposure from 1980 to 2018, according to a recent analysis published in JAMA Internal Medicine (DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2021.1063).
WEDNESDAY, April 21, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- A deadly chemical in paint strippers continues to kill workers despite its known dangers, a new study finds.