A sharp look from Ken Cook & @robynobrien.bsky.social at the politics, money, and corporate influence behind the rude awakening for #MAHA true believers who were sold a bill of goods supporting Trump.

When you destroy global disease prevention infrastructure overseas, the consequences don’t stay overseas.

Who Profits From Your Hunger open.substack.com/pub/robynobr...

The touch-and-go situation involving a chemical tank in the middle of #GardenGrove, Calif. is exactly why safety standards for chemical facilities should be among the strongest protections enforced by the federal government.

Nutlick is now at the top of the leader board just behind Orange Face as the most corrupt member of the crime spree. Congrats, Howie! www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/u...

From the Dept. of Stupid: Trump and Zeldin demolish another pollution protection out of spite. open.substack.com/pub/alexform...

It would of course be a terrible decision by the Collins campaign to let Vance anywhere near her. God, I hope they do.

Well, shit.

MAHA should be outraged by Trump’s mercury pollution surge open.substack.com/pub/alexform...

Anyone who aligns themselves with the #MAHA movement should be just as concerned with the surge of this neurotoxin into the air children breathe as they are with food dyes - maybe more. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/c...

No previous Administration has ever moved to roll back already finalized maximum contaminant limits for drinking water pollutants. And it's likely illegal, too.

“15% doesn’t mean much to a company that makes billions,” said Rick Martin, a 69-year-old disabled retired truck driver and mechanic. “But to retirees, it’s life changing. It’s a nightmare.”

Trump's promises to #MAHA was a scam to sway the movement's grassroots into supporting him in the last election. I and many others said it then and have continued to ever since. Now, MAHA Action has pledged to spend $100M to back Republican candidates in the mid-terms endorsed by Trump.

To anyone still clinging to hope the Trump administration will take the #MAHA agenda seriously, you should stop. It's embarrassing.

Yes. You don't go!

This photo should be on the front page of every single newspaper in America today.

New poll shows Americans overwhelmingly reject Trump’s stupid and reckless pro-pesticide agenda open.substack.com/pub/alexform...

Follow the Money Behind the MAHA Brand open.substack.com/pub/robynobr...

I’ve tracked #pesticide industry influence at EPA for nearly two decades, under both Republican and Democratic administrations, and I can’t remember a moment when so many industry insiders were embedded inside the agency shaping pesticide policy as we’re seeing now under Administrator Zeldin.

Extremely exciting to see this article on CNN about my new national nitrate analysis and map that was released today. It features quotes from @theswinerepublic.bsky.social and Iowa State Rep. Dr. Austin Baeth. www.cnn.com/2026/04/23/h...

The Maximum Contaminant Limit, or MCL, for #nitrate levels in tap water EPA requires utilities to follow under the Safe Drinking Water Act has not been updated since 1962 - the same year as the Cuban missile crisis.

California utility CEO pay surged in 2025 as customers fell behind on bills and power shutoffs climbed open.substack.com/pub/alexform...

PG&E CEO Patricia Poppe made $19.8M in 2025. An average California worker would have to work for 210 years to make as much. PG&E disconnected customers 196,501 times in 2025 and had more than 1 million customers behind on their bills with a total balance of $697.5 million at the end of the year.

EPA could lower the levels of #glyphosate in foods marketed to children, but has refused to act on EWG's petition to do so. It's languished at the agency for 7 years, while countless kids have been consuming foods contaminated with the weedkiller.

This is the best piece I've read yet on the #MAHA scam.

To the #MAHA faithful still waiting for EPA's Lee Zeldin to deliver anything resembling the meaningful MAHA agenda he promised: it’s not coming. newrepublic.com/article/2089... via @newrepublic.com

Will #MAHA fall once again for another snow job by Trump? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/u...

“This is not just a policy shift—it’s a wholesale abandonment of government commitments to the American public."

@nejm.org published a paper last week delivering a sweeping & scathing rebuke of the Trump admin. assault on bedrock public health & enviro programs. “The effect of ongoing environmental rollbacks could be immense and long-lasting – extending over years and even generations,” the authors wrote.

New reporting by the @theatlantic.bsky.social's @tombartlett.bsky.social depicts a full-blown recovery effort at CDC to quickly rebuild trust among the ranks inside the agency and with wobbly voters troubled by RFKJr's disastrous leadership & anti-vax messaging ahead of the mid-terms.

Mr. Kennedy...falsely claimed in a podcast that aired on Monday that the GRAS provision had already been eliminated. “We’ve changed the GRAS loophole so that we’ve closed it,” Mr. Kennedy said in the episode. Of course he did.

The perfect plan for nearly everything.

My colleagues at EWG today published the 2026 Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce that relies on annual USDA residue tests to compile the Dirty Dozen and Clean Fifteen lists of fruits & veggies with the highest & lowest levels of pesticides.

President Trump and Defense Secretary Hegseth are asking Congress for another $200 billion to fuel their costly, reckless war with Iran. By comparison, covering a year of tuition at a four-year public college for every 2026 high school graduate would cost about $45 billion, according to estimates.

Trump sends in babysitter at HHS to rein in RFK Jr. and #MAHA open.substack.com/pub/alexform...

After the Eaton Fire, SCE is charging some residents as much as $40,000 just to reconnect to the electric grid. There’s a better way. Why not let the community of Altadena cut the cord with SCE.

Well, shit.

The parade of vainglorious buffoons running our country is as alarming as it is absurd.

The "MAHA agenda" EPA chief Zeldin said was 'coming soon' is pure fantasy substack.com/@alexformuzi...

PG&E is ACTIVELY LYING to the Californian public about the decreasing of rates. Nevermind the small amount of change in decrease, THEY ARE STILL INCREASING RATES. A consumer, under the post screenshotted, named their bills to have gone up 17% in January. THIS. IS. RIDICULOUS. STOP PG&E #StopPGE

Trump was never going to ban #glyphosate. But there is a plan EWG sent EPA during Trump's 1st term that would reduce kids' dietary exposure to the cancer-causing weedkiller.

EWG is sponsoring this bill in California. If adopted into law, it will blow open the balcony solar market across the country.

President Trump, RFK Jr., and some congressional Republicans promised the #MAHA movement they would stand up to the #pesticide industry if elected. Many of us warned before and after the 2024 election that those pledges were empty. This bill proves it.

No, really?! It's a scam, folks. At least with Trump, Zeldin & RFK Jr.

Environmental Working Group's own Bernadette Del Chiaro breaks down how regulatory bodies like the California PUC aren't holding utility companies like PG&E accountable to prevent moments like this, as a result of cozy, crony capitalism that protects the utilities.

This post has aged well, it seems.

What Does a Small Town Do When the Water Is Undrinkable? - sentientmedia.org/what-does-a-...

It would just be Wednesday, and not much else happening - other than news about the weather.