this was a great article - and made me rethink the term and what we are doing today to protect workers from being mauled by capitalism

In the World of Pain project, we found that German drugmaker Grünenthal promotes its opioids through misleading tactics including funding doctors, studies, patient groups and pain associations. 💊👇 www.theexamination.org/articles/fou...

So many plastics from so many places - and growing leading to our exposures. Time for the plastics treaty to address health when the countries meet in August

👇 Excellent article on our new paper on why - Global Plastics Talks Set to Resume Next Month Must Prioritize Environment and Health, Experts Say insideclimatenews.org/news/0907202...

Washington’s @ecology.wa.gov just released a draft rule on toxic #PFAS. ✅ Ban proposed for clothing, car washes & cleaning products. ⚠️ But for most products? Just reporting—not a ban. PFAS are toxic & costly to clean up—and alternatives exist. 🗣️ Tell Ecology by July 20: Ban PFAS in ALL products!

Today, the EPA moved to roll back key protections against carbon emissions and air pollution from fossil fuel power plants. “It’s galling to watch the US government so thoroughly debase itself as it sacrifices the public good to boost the bottom line of fossil fuel.” UCS Statement:

👉new blog on study finding exposures to haloalkanes linked to aggressive brain cancer - supported by our @ucsf-earth.bsky.social prheucsf.blog/2025/06/10/c...

New study finding glyphosate increases cancers after early life exposure ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

👇My interview in @newscientist.com on how corporations' control your health - and what we can do about it. Plus, I have weird blue hair in the illustration, so it is worth checking out just to see that. www.newscientist.com/article/2481...

woo hoo - successful science! more of what the world needs

Tomorrow is World No Tobacco Day! The Industry Documents Library at UCSF hosts publicly released industry documents for research & education. Check out our tobacco collections, now also including over 4 million documents from Juul Labs. #WorldNoTobaccoDay www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/tobacco/

How often can you get admission to a FREE workshop with experts in systematic review? If you are attending @isee-global.bsky.social in Atlanta - learn best practices Register here www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-con...

TOMORROW - Learn about UCSF’s Center to End Corporate Harm, how to use the Industry Documents Library, and how researchers tap these internal documents to understand how corporations influence science & policy. @ucsf-prhe.bsky.social RSVP here: www.healthandenvironment.org/che-webinars...

Join us to hear about what is really driving our current health crisis - and the amazing resources at UCSF that will help address the role of corporate influence on science as a health driver. 👇

OH the irony - they want to publish in their own journals? and they suspended publication of Environmental Health Perspectives a NIEHS/NIH journal. hmm

Our statement on new MAHA report. It identifies growing chronic children's health conditions and some toxic chemicals' effects. Also names Corporate Influence as a contributor But children will get less healthy with administration's proposed cuts to EPA & research prheucsf.blog/2025/05/23/s...

Excellent speech by @traceywoodruff.bsky.social If the administration is serious about making America healthy they need to fund environmental research. It is science fiction to think that you can cut 55% of EPA’s budget and expect people’s health to improve. www.youtube.com/live/3l-bOsI...

And I have been hard on the NYTimes for not covering the role of funding source in their science. So I want to give them extra props and say - please more.

Excellent NY Times article on how industry funding influences findings of whether meat is beneficial 👉 Studies funded by the red meat industry were nearly 4 times as likely to report favorable or neutral cardiovascular results compared to studies with no such links www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/w...

Good news from other countries - Finally a process for banning toxic pesticide chlorpyrifos, medium-chain chlorinated paraffins (MCCPs), and long-chain perfluorocarboxylic acids (LC-PFCAs).

👇👇by former EPA deputy administrator Robert Sussman On the administration's attack on addressing climate change. See how the administration attacks science and uses relation to claim climate change is the 'product of misguided religious faith rather than science' www.eli.org/vibrant-envi...

This study is another reason the government needs to move faster, not slower, to regulate PFAS exposures - see the links to childhood leukemia, which has been increasing 👇👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Wow - another study showing pesticide-related exposures linked to Parkinson's - from living near a golf course. Before you go all correlation not causation, remember this adds to extensive studies in animals and people showing pesticides <>Parkinsons. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

The chemical industry has a long list of "asks" from the new administration. These requests will leave people exposed to more toxic chemicals and pollutants in the air, water, homes, and workplaces. Read the list. What do you think?

Wow - nanoplastics can gain toxic superpowers by absorbing other toxic agents - to become megatoxic? seems like this deserves a good meme

Couldn't agree more - and the cuts to EPA Science will mean that there will be less solutions and potential for more exposures to toxic chemicals - see our blog on the many ways that EPA ORD is so essential to the health of the public. prheucsf.blog/2025/05/07/t...

Interesting - and this is why we have to know about the role of environmental pollution - which we know is higher in low income communities and communities of color. You can see a map here - oehha.ca.gov/calenviroscr... we can't address growing cancer risk unless we address environmental pollution

Being antiracist is punk.

Another great piece by @shannonosaka.bsky.social on the health dangers of plastics and the chemicals in them. And it's a global problem. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Thanks for this. 4 sure there are many many toxic chemicals in food, and water and air. I agree about wanting to control our environment. But I also know that unless the government does its job - we will still be exposed to toxic chemicals no matter what. right now that's not looking so good

This is particularly tragic for those that live near these facilities which are primarily low income communities and communities of color -

Thank you to our #Veterens for serving our country - and serving again by telling the truth about toxic TCE and that we need to ban this chemical and the government should not give it a pass.

NEW: NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Is this the end of @EHP? Knew this was coming but it is still a huge blow to the field and will boost for profit journals ehp.niehs.nih.gov/do/10.5555/b...

Sure, petroleum-based food dyes/chemicals can affect child neurodevelopment (see CA report oehha.ca.gov/risk-assessm...) But I'm pretty offering 'honey' (wait isn't that sugar?lol) won't do it. So far, most of the food industry has not agreed to this phase-out. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/u...

When things are stressful at work - this..👇 or punk music both work

We are celebrating #EarthDay by launching a new initiative called Environmental Health Works (#EHWorks), where universities across the US are coming together to share videos about how the environment affects our health (and how research contributes to that knowledge). Take a look at bit.ly/EHworks

I love my #SF @baywheels.bsky.social membership - I can go anywhere in the city and my commute goes along one of the most beautiful bike rides anywhere.

wow -

The Trump admin plans to gut climate research at NOAA & NASA, following #Project2025 agenda. Proposed cuts include NOAA’s Oceanic and Atmospheric Research Division, all 16 cooperative institutes, 10 labs, 6 climate centers, NASA’s Goddard Space Institute budget, and $70M in grants—plus mass firings.

Important!! this is a blueprint for making more American's sick. This includes huge cuts to agencies that are supposed to protect people/workers from toxic chemicals.

@traceywoodruff.bsky.social & I explained to @lancetrespirmed.bsky.social why delaying action on regulating #microplastics while waiting for perfect data could have serious consequences, particularly given the rise in unexplained #cancer rates and chronic diseases bit.ly/44lBTnd

yup - everywhere and in everyone - microplastics and their many many chemicals - read this nice summary by Rachael Schultz. goop.com/wellness/hea...

Excellent article about how Microplastics in the air and how they could be impacting health. @nickchartres.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

All else fails - listen to music - but I want to see Wet Leg on this list next

So great to share the virtual stage with @mattmacleod.bsky.social He gives a great explanation about why adding more microplastics to the environment will lead to more exposures because they don't go away.

Killing NIOSH will result in more death and disease in workers. Not make american's healthier

👇👇The solution to the increasing chronic diseases is funding and acting on the research from #NIEHS and the Centers that are the engine of science and action. Read why they matter on our blog prheucsf.blog/2025/04/01/e...