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  • Peter Dykstra: Forgotten history

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    Let’s start by throwing a little shade on two central myths of American environmental history: That Teddy Roosevelt and Richard Nixon were the only Republican presidents to lift a finger on behalf of the environment. As for lifting fingers, most—but not all—of the rest lifted the same finger against the environment. (Hint: It’s the same…

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  • The U.S., struggling to curb emissions, just lost another nuclear power plant

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    Despite efforts by the Biden administration and Michigan’s governor, the Palisades nuclear plant shut down 11 days early.

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  • Solar power at Pennsylvania schools doubled during the pandemic

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    NORTH BRADDOCK, Penn.—On Wednesday evening, 10th grader Abby Wypych stood in front of Woodland Hills School District’s board and urged them to approve a feasibility study on installing solar panels. “Woodland Hills has provided me with many opportunities to get involved with climate action, which I’m very passionate about,” she said. “As a student with…

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  • Op-Ed: The medical community is missing a major piece of the obesity puzzle

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    What makes us fat? The current medical view is that obesity is due to overeating and insufficient exercise. That is like saying alcoholism is due to drinking too much. For most obese people, reducing body weight to within the “normal range” is not accomplished by simply eating less and exercising more. Current approaches focus on…

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  • Gifts from our mothers

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    What’s one gift you cherish from your mother? We want your story. It’s Mother’s Day Sunday, and we want to hear about the one gift you’ve received from your mother and carry with you today. Drop your one lesson here – make it one lesson, one sentence – and we’ll share the most illuminative ones…

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  • LISTEN: Black histories and visions of urban planning

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    Senior Agents of Change fellows Enjoli Hall and Tatiana “Tots” Height discuss what drew them to urban planning and how they envision the field could better center the histories and lived experiences of Black communities. Hall is a Ph.D. student and Ford Predoctoral Fellow in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts…

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  • Workers exposed to PFAS in a variety of industries

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    For the better part of 20 years, Peter Arlein worked as a professional ski technician, waxing skis across Colorado. Working occasionally in smaller shops with poor ventilation, he breathed in fumes released by the waxes. “The backroom is pretty cramped,” Arlein told EHN. “In the winter, you don’t want to have the door open because…

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  • Peter Dykstra: The steal of the last century and a half

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    For sustained, systemic swindle, May 10, 1872, may be the top of the heap for Congress. And by the top, of course, I mean the bottom. The Civil War had ended only seven years earlier. Efforts to unravel Reconstruction in the South were well underway. Three years to the day earlier, the driving of the…

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  • Op-Ed: Black gold and the color line

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    Last month the Biden Administration announced that it would resume selling leases for new oil and gas drilling on public lands. This decision raises significant climate change and environmental justice concerns, particularly for those disadvantaged communities who may live near future drilling sites. Our recent study on community exposures to oil and gas production shows…

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  • Words of wisdom from three leaders in the environmental health and justice field

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    Over the years, we have had countless conversations about our shared research, the field of environmental health, ethical science, the lack of diversity in our field, and how to become successful environmental health and justice researchers. These last two points have been particularly salient as early-career researchers. Success as a researcher can be elusive —…

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