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Environmental Health News (EHN) delivers timely, valuable news through our daily newsletters, keeping readers informed on the most pressing environmental health issues.

EHN also maintains the archive of our investigative journalism. From 2003 through 2025, we investigated, published, and curated reporting on a wide range of environmental health topics. Guided by a commitment to bringing sound science into public conversation and policy, our newsroom produced compelling journalism that exposed injustices, highlighted solutions, and spurred actions leading to measurable, lasting improvements in both health and the environment.

Our original reporting was published through EHN, EHN en Español, and The Daily Climate.

EHN en Español

EHN en Español presents environmental health journalism and science in Spanish. It shares articles, editorials, explanatory guides, infographics, and videos on topics such as toxics, justice, plastic pollution, children’s health, climate, and food and water.  The site highlights original reporting by EHN translated or adapted for a Spanish-speaking audience, curating both domestic (U.S.) and international environmental health news. Readers can subscribe to daily and weekly newsletters in Spanish to receive selected stories directly in their inbox.

The Daily Climate

The Daily Climate is an independent news site from Environmental Health Sciences that has covered climate and environmental issues since 2002. Funded by readers and foundations, it curates and publishes journalism that informs the public and policymakers about the science, challenges, and solutions shaping our climate future.

Agents of Change

Agents of Change is a partnership with Environmental Health Sciences that amplifies voices historically excluded from science and academia.  Administered through the Environmental Health Sciences department at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, the program empowers emerging leaders through fellowships, mentorship, and media to reimagine solutions for a healthier, more equitable planet. By fostering new thought leaders and connecting their expertise to decision-making spaces, Agents of Change brings fresh ideas, community knowledge, and accessible science to the forefront of environmental health.

Latest News

• Colorado kids with leukemia are more than twice as likely to live near dense oil and gas development
  June 10, 2025 by Kristina Marusic
  A recent study found that Colorado children who’d been diagnosed with Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia were more than twice as likely to live near dense oil and gas development, including both conventional and fracking wells, than healthy children throughout the state. Oil and gas wells emit chemicals that have been linked to increased risk for this […]
• How New Jersey’s towns are tackling microplastic pollution from construction
  June 3, 2025 by María Paula Rubiano
  About a year ago, while scrolling on Facebook, retired NBC reporter Brian Thompson saw something that shook him. A woman named Sherri Lilienfeld shared photos of her front lawn covered in at least two inches of what, at first glance, looked like pristine white snow. It was not. It was plastic dust from a nearby […]
• Agents of Change launches the Fellows in Residence program
  June 2, 2025 by EHN Editors
  The Agents of Change program, a partnership between EHN and Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, is excited to announce the Agents of Change Fellows in Residence Program.During this past year we have been reflecting on our accomplishments with the five Agents of Change cohorts. After five years of training the next generation of […]
• EHN reporters win four Golden Quill Awards
  May 29, 2025 by EHN Editors
  PITTSBURGH — EHN reporters Cami Ferrell and Kristina Marusic won four 2025 Golden Quill awards for their reporting on hydrogen energy and chemical recycling.The Golden Quills competition, held by the Press Club of Western Pennsylvania, honors excellence in print, broadcast, photography, videography and digital journalism in Western Pennsylvania and nearby counties in Ohio and West […]
• Millions in the U.S. may rely on PFAS-contaminated drinking water
  May 21, 2025 by Mackenzie White
  Last year, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized the first national drinking water standards for six hazardous per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). Last week, the Trump administration announced that it would delay the timeline for implementing limits on two of those compounds and reconsider the limits on the remaining four.There are more than 15,000 […]
• Op-ed: To curb chronic disease in Americans, the FDA needs to assert regulatory control over toxic chemicals in our food
  May 15, 2025 by Frederick vom Saal et. al
  Editor's note: This op-ed was written by Frederick vom Saal and 15 co-authors. The full list of co-authors, their affiliations, and their contact information is included below.As senior environmental health researchers and physicians, we are united in our concern about the escalating prevalence of chronic diseases in the United States. To stop the increase of […]
• Opinion: Investors should address the risk from undisclosed hazardous chemicals in investment portfolios
  May 14, 2025 by Bill Walsh
  In February 2025, consumers reacted to reports that toxic flame retardant chemicals had been found in black plastic spatulas made from recycled plastic. Sales of black nylon utensils plummeted over 20%, while sales of stainless steel and silicone products soared 13% and 70%. This sharp consumer reaction highlights a truth: Investors are exposed to financial […]
• Our annual summer reading list, 2025 edition
  May 11, 2025 by EHN Editors
  Welcome to summer, everyone! Here our staff share a memorable book that they’ve recently read, and this year, like every year, has produced an eclectic, thought-provoking mix. We hope our picks inspire some new additions to your own lists.Each review links out to the book through Bookshop.org, which works to connect readers with independent booksellers. […]
• Another PFAS-containing pesticide headed for US registration
  May 9, 2025 by Brian Bienkowski
  Editor's note: This story was originally published in The New Lede, a journalism project of the Environmental Working Group, and is republished here with permission.US regulators are poised to approve a pesticide made with a controversial class of toxic chemicals, stoking concerns of new risks for farms across the country. Syngenta, which developed the pesticide […]
• Multiple Houston-area oil and gas facilities that have violated pollution laws are seeking permit renewals
  May 6, 2025 by Cami Ferrell
  HOUSTON — Multiple Houston-area oil and gas facilities that have previously violated the pollution limits in their permits have recently applied for new federal operating permits or renewals.These facilities include the Chevron Pasadena Refining facility, the LyondellBasell Houston refinery, and the Chevron Phillips Chemical Sweeny Complex in Brazoria County, all of which are seeking renewed […]
• Book excerpt: Detoxify
  May 6, 2025 by Dr. Aly Cohen
  Ashley couldn't stop staring at her hands. Swollen and slightly twisted, her fingers looked more like “deformed sausages,” as she described them, than what you’d expect to see in a relatively healthy twenty-seven-year-old woman. She held her hands out as she greeted me, then pulled them back to unfasten her coat, struggling and wincing as […]
• Pennsylvania health advocates say Trump’s first 100 days in office have caused “100 harms” to local communities
  May 2, 2025 by Kristina Marusic
  PITTSBURGH — On Wednesday, the morning after hurricane-like weather conditions killed at least four people and caused power outages at more than 400,000 homes in southwestern Pennsylvania, community advocates and scientists held an event to discuss how President Donald Trump's first 100 days in office have set back climate action and harmed environmental health and […]