EHN Originals

Era día de siembra. En las semanas previas, nuestros estudiantes habían votado por los vegetales que querían sembrar y habían empezado a prepararse para ese día. Habíamos dejado las semillas germinaran en cajas para huevos viejas llenas de tierra y habíamos hecho etiquetas con palitos de helado coloridos mientras esperábamos que los brotes crecieran lo…

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It was planting day. In prior weeks, our students voted on the vegetables they wanted to grow and began preparing for that day. We left the seeds to germinate in old egg cartons filled with soil and created colorful popsicle stick labels as we waited for the seedlings to grow enough to take root in…

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Seven out of 14 bras tested have detectable levels of fluorine, an indicator of toxic PFAS, according to a new report from Mamavation. In 2022, Mamavation, an environmental wellness blog and community, tested sports bras and found evidence of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, in sports bras from popular brands including Adidas, Champion and Nike.…

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Earlier this month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration banned Red Dye No. 3 in foods, beverages and oral medications because the chemical has been linked to cancer in animal studies. The FDA previously banned the same dye in cosmetics and topicals for cancer risk in 1990. Both bans relied on the FDA’s Delaney Clause,…

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Wildfire retardants, the hot-pink mix of water and chemicals sprayed from airplanes by the U.S Forest service to combat wildfires, are under scrutiny after a recent study found they’re a serious source of heavy metal pollution in the U.S. The research, conducted by a team from the University of Southern California and published in Environmental…

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Beatrice*, an undergraduate student, would join Zoom meetings with her camera off. She was part of a group of undergraduate researchers at Sonoma State University that Dr. Daniel Soto and I had taken under our wing. We’d trained them to collect data and facilitate workshops in which they worked with community members from nearby environmental…

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The Biden administration has finalized long-anticipated hydrogen tax credit rules just weeks before Trump takes office. The rules, set by the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service, will determine when hydrogen producers can claim substantial tax credits intended to incentivize the production of clean hydrogen energy. The draft rules received over…

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PITTSBURGH — As coal-fired power plants shut down in favor of cleaner, cheaper energy sources, prioritizing the shut-down of the plants in vulnerable communities could yield greater public health benefits and save additional lives, according to a new study. The study, published in Environmental Science & Technology, suggests that decreases in emissions from prioritizing environmental…

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May 29, 2020, should have been a pride-filled day as I, a Black daughter of immigrants, would confer a master’s degree from MIT. Instead, I grieved as I watched news coverage of the murder of George Floyd four days prior by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. For nine minutes and 29 seconds, Chauvin kneeled on…

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For all that President-elect Donald Trump trashed renewable energy on the stump, much of his ranting may very well become a murmur when he returns to the Oval Office. Obscured by his “green new scam” rhetoric is a mad scramble by his supporters in Congress to reap the economic benefits of green industry for their…

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