A few days after the inauguration of President Joe Biden, Michal Freedhoff settled into her cramped home office in a suburb of Washington, D.C., to get to work as the nation’s new top chemical regulator.
Late one warm Saturday morning in mid-March, a group of five longtime residents of Southeast Los Angeles gathered in a cramped office in Maywood to talk about living in one of the most heavily polluted areas in California.
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.