EHN Originals

Editor’s note: This article was originally published at Le Monde and is republished here with permission. The Endocrine Society, a society of 18,000 members including researchers and clinicians specializing in the hormonal system, is highly critical of a new European Food Safety Authority draft report on the unusual effects of some chemicals. According to the…

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Europe’s food safety regulators have an opportunity to bring a cleaner, safer future to the health of 450 million people, but that effort is being thwarted by a too-cozy relationship with the global chemical industry. That’s why EHN.org today is republishing an important report from Le Monde about the European Food Safety Authority, the continent’s…

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Recent research in aquaculture, the farming of fish and other marine organisms, reveals a growing concern: farmed fish contaminated with microplastic particles by way of their feed. These studies are troubling because they show that farmed fish are directly being fed plastics, which can impact their health and nutritional value. Microplastics could also contaminate people…

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A new landmark global review of economics and biodiversity finds our global economies are “embedded within nature,” and the widespread failure to recognize that truth endangers our livelihoods, well-being, and the prosperity of future generations. The Dasgupta Review was commissioned by the United Kingdom’s HM Treasury and was led by economist and professor Sir Partha…

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As we gradually work our way out of the pandemic with the development and distribution of vaccines, what does our evolving success tell us about the possibilities of resolving the climate change crisis? Has this crisis been a warm-up on what to do—and not do—in the face of a global climate emergency? The answer is…

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I’ve been thinking about how the precarious state of American politics will guide climate policy. It looks like the key to it all is understanding West Virginia politics. And I’m not sure anyone, anywhere, understands West Virginia politics. Or maybe it’s just me, because West Virginia politics surely beats the heck out of me. Because…

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The voice of environmental justice, once lonely in the wilderness of systemic racism, is growling like a tiger and prowling like a panther in the halls of power, helping shape President Biden’s cabinet with nominees pledging to restore environmental and public health protections dismantled by the previous administration. Flexing its muscle, the environmental justice movement…

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“I never met a Kentuckian who wasn’t either thinking about going home or actually going home.”- Kentucky Senator A.B “Happy” Chandler. There is nothing quite like the beauty and comfort I find in my home state of Kentucky: from the state’s signature bluegrass and stunning Red River Gorge canyons to the “Bourbon Capital of the…

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Brianna VanNoy joins the Agents of Change in Environmental Health podcast to discuss why representation in research matters, and how clinical trial research can incorporate public health and justice ideas. VanNoy works in clinical research at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. She was also part of our first group of fellows and wrote about…

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Hope you’re enjoying America’s first weekend under Joe Biden. Is it too soon for a little Trump-era nostalgia? Let us pause to remember Scott Pruitt and Ryan Zinke. You do remember Scott Pruitt and Ryan Zinke, don’t you? They were Trump’s initial EPA Administrator and Interior Secretary, respectively. Both left beneath their own ethical clouds.…

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