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Op-ed: Environmental racism in action—the Trump Administration’s plans to gut the National Environmental Policy Act
The Trump administration is trying mightily to gut the 50-year-old National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the law that mandates rigorous, science-based environmental impact reviews for major infrastructure and construction projects prior to federal permitting. NEPA also reserves significant time for the public to weigh in on the impact of projects to their communities. The loss…
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Lead in hunted meat: Who’s telling hunters and their families?
Lead contamination in hunted meat has the potential to impact the health of millions of people in the U.S. who are connected to the hunting community, including low-income recipients of venison donations. However, a lack of communication from public health agencies and health professionals leaves people who eat hunted meat without a trusted source of…
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Ocean plastic: How recycling creates tomorrow’s problems.
Sometimes plastic recycling is so much worse than just letting trash be trash. But first, let’s thank European supermarket chain Lidl for trying. We all must. Plastic pollution is an enormous challenge. Unfortunately they, like many, are ignoring the toxic dimension of plastic recycling. Until efforts to solve the plastic crisis fully understand plastic toxicity,…
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William H. Schlesinger: Ways to reduce the environmental impact of your morning coffee
If you are like me, you can’t imagine starting your day without a couple of cups of strong coffee. It jump-starts the mind. Coffee consumption is growing faster than the human population, with annual consumption now topping 10 million tons per year. But, just as I have considered for milk and booze, coffee has a…
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Autism and phthalates: Exposure in womb linked to autistic traits in boys
Young boys who were exposed in the womb to certain phthalate chemicals were more likely to have autism traits at ages 3 and 4, according to a new study published in Environmental Health Perspectives. The researchers also report that mothers who had taken recommended doses of supplementary folic acid during their first trimester were less…
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30 years of being (almost always) right
It’s an epic birth story that is, in all probability, also a true one. In late 1989, ABC’s rockstar reporter, Sam Donaldson, sat down for an interview with the Washington Post’s Eleanor Randolph for the launch of his new show, Prime Time Live. Randolph asked Donaldson if he considered his shift from daily prominence on…
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David Michaels: The Grand Old Party Line
Donald Trump has been portrayed by some as “hijacking” the Republican Party. This argument casts the forty-fifth president of the United States as a radical populist whose views and methods belie the history and ideological roots of the Grand Old Party. On matters related to science and regulation, this claim is patently false. The Trump…
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Pittsburgh’s air was unsafe to breathe for 3 months in 2018
PITTSBURGH—The air in Pittsburgh was unsafe to breathe for three months in 2018, according to a new report from the PennEnvironment Research and Policy Center. The study, published today, looks at national air quality data from 2018 in both urban and rural regions. There were 90 days in which half or more air monitoring locations…
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Helping medical professionals and patients understand endocrine disruptors
We all want to live longer, healthier lives. We wish this, not only for ourselves, but for our children and grandchildren, too. Yet, we are hit daily with news about health epidemics that affect human populations: obesity rates continue to climb; more than a million new cancer cases are diagnosed in the US each year;…
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New country, same oppression: It’s time to bolster farmworkers’ rights
“Why is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can’t get food stamps?” This comment by Dolores Huerta, a labor rights leader, resonates with me. Growing up in a farming village in Pakistan, the sight of yellow mustard fields on a cold morning with a backdrop of dense fog meeting a rising sun is…
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