Environmental groups used a flurry of recent meetings with the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to renew their calls for a strict TSCA rule banning all use of the solvent methylene chloride, highlighting research they say shows both its acute toxicity and ongoing worker deaths even under OSHA’s current safety standards.
The air quality regulator for much of Southern California is risking public health by allowing emissions of ethylene oxide, a highly toxic gas associated with lymphoid and breast cancer, at levels far above the federal cancer risk guidelines for the chemical, warn environmental health experts.
The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday proposed maximum limits for the amount of lead in baby foods like mashed fruits and vegetables and dry cereals, after years of studies revealed that many processed products contained levels known to pose a risk of neurological and developmental impairment.
A group of 48 US scientists from academia, NGOs and government agencies have developed five principles, with associated recommendations, for improving risk assessment and management of industrial chemicals at the EPA.
Scientists, industry and environmental groups are all pushing EPA to reconsider its approach to chemical risk assessments as it readies a slate of landmark steps on TSCA reviews, including its first moves toward considering cumulative risks under the law as well as statutory deadlines for completing 20 evaluations of existing chemicals.
Common chemicals called phthalates found in hundreds of household products have been linked to uterine fibroids—non-cancerous tumors ranging...
A group of more than 40 scientists from academia, citizen groups and state and federal agencies are floating a slate of proposals to overhaul both how EPA implements the reformed TSCA and its approach to chemical risks more broadly, saying the agency’s current methods are rife with “deficiencies” that understate the dangers of chemical exposure.
Tania Pacheco-Werner put on her walking shoes. She was halfway through her first pregnancy and had just been diagnosed with gestational diabetes. Her doctor's advice? Stay active.
As we near midterm elections, a new poll has done the unthinkable: found an issue that doesn’t divide us.
Most American voters say they want more government and industry protection from toxic chemicals, a new poll has found.
Do the majority of Americans want government to make sure the products they buy are free of harmful chemicals?
October 11, 2022Press Release
American voters overwhelmingly say they want government and industry to ensure the products they buy
are free of harmful chemicals, and they are willing to pay more for it, according to a national online survey
commissioned by the Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment (PRHE) at the University of
California, San Francisco (UCSF).
Tania Pacheco-Werner put on her walking shoes. She was halfway through her first pregnancy and had just been diagnosed with gestational diabetes. Her doctor’s advice? Stay active. But Pacheco-Werner lives just outside Fresno. It was summer, and well over 100 degrees. The air outside was also thick with wildfire smoke from nearby forest fires — an increasingly common occurrence due to climate change.
It's a normal reaction for any expectant mother. But worrying during pregnancy may raise the risk of a premature birth, a study suggested Monday. Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles found those who suffered anxiety had a significantly higher risk of going into labor early.
In the past few months, people across the U.S. have faced extreme climate hazards such as wildfires on the West Coast, flooding that contributed to undrinkable water in Mississippi and left hundreds homeless in eastern Kentucky, and record-breaking heat waves. Concurrently, four states have passed near-total abortion bans, and the first abortion ban passed after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade has taken effect in Indiana.