Toxic TCE and PCE exposure is PREVENTABLE. EPA needs to do its job and stop delaying bans on these harmful chemicals. What better way to honor our veterans than to ban chemicals linked to Parkinson's disease in veterans.

This new poll confirms that an overwhelmingly majority of Americans support the law designed to keep people safe from toxic chemicals. No one (except industry lobbyists) want toxics in their air, food, or drinking water. #TSCA www.edf.org/media/new-po...

EPA continues to delay a proposed ban on TCE, a chemical linked to Parkinson's disease. TCE has contaminated numerous military bases where soldiers and their families are exposed. EPA must move swiftly to protect soldiers, veterans and their families.

New report from Duke University and @nrdc.org about the real cost of plastic - and it ain't cheap. www.nrdc.org/bio/renee-sh...

In testimony before EPA's SACC, PRHE urged the Agency to better protect people from chemicals in plastics. #phthalates prheucsf.blog/2025/11/05/p...

Destroying science will make Americans less healthy, less safe, and undermine our economic competitiveness. #ScienceSavesLives www.nature.com/articles/d41...

“While industry says ‘faster, faster’ and uses buzz words like ‘progress and innovation,’ it is essential that policymakers understand the repercussions of unleashing new toxic chemicals on the population,” - Dr. Tracey J. Woodruff www.thenewlede.org/2025/10/tsca...

Q: "How does a chemical with a 100% cancer risk get approved?" A. "Political interference."

HAPPENING NOW: Dr. Woodruff testifying before Senate EPW Subcommittee on need to protect people from toxic chemicals.

Coming up! Watch Dr. Woodruff testify before the Senate EPW Chemical Safety and Regulatory Oversight. Chemical regulations should have one priority and that's protecting people's health. www.epw.senate.gov/public/index...

BREAKING: Senate hearing on impacts of chemical regulation Thursday. Note that two of the three witnesses are from industry. At least one witness will testify on behalf of science and health. www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/se...

Baby pacifiers should not come with a dose of harmful chemicals. #BPA www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

EPA's new leadership says they are "powering the great American comeback." But what does that really mean? And why does EPA want to give a greenlight to polluters? Our health would like a word... www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIBm...

Good news: California leading the way to protect firefighters from toxic PFAS in their gear. www.cbs8.com/article/news...

Great work by @UCSF_EaRTH REACH fellows for raising awareness about the threats extreme heat poses to farmworkers. Congratulations on the op-ed placement! www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-e...

Polluting industries are getting about 80% of what they are asking for. That's a disaster for people's health. www.thenewlede.org/2025/10/trum...

Zeldin's EPA is stripping away requirements that ensure TSCA risk evaluations reflect real-world chemical exposures and risks. #FrameworkRule prheucsf.blog/2025/10/09/e...

When EPA's Lee Zeldin testifies before Congress, what's he really saying? @traceywoodruff.bsky.social explains. #PollutersvsScience www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyeK...

EPA is trying to narrow the "scientific evidence" for chemical risk evaluations, essentially doing an end-run around the goal of the updated TSCA law. cen.acs.org/policy/chemi...

"[the MAHA policy report] dodged accountability, downplayed industry responsibility, and quietly walked back any meaningful plan to confront the dangerous chemicals polluting our homes, schools, food and bodies." thehill.com/opinion/ener...

They want to speed up risk evaluations of new chemicals. This is exactly what the chemical industry wants. And, no, it won't make America healthy. cen.acs.org/policy/chemi...

"If the current administration wants to address neurological disorders including autism, reducing exposure to air pollutants, pesticides, and plastics would be a good place to start." - Project TENDR prheucsf.blog/2025/09/23/s...

PRHE's research is helping to uncover one reason behind rising cancer rates in younger adults. #microplastics @nickchartres.bsky.social @c2ech.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/health/inter...

Important work from #EWG that demonstrates we need to do more to ensure our drinking water supply is safe. @thenewlede.bsky.social @careygillam.bsky.social www.thenewlede.org/2025/09/new-...

"Just as governments once curbed tobacco industry influence, they must now ban fossil fuel lobbying and disinformation," Miller said. phys.org/news/2025-09...

“It feels like nothing short of a further assault on our communities,” said Loreen Hackett, who lives in Hoosick Falls, N.Y., where PFAS and other chemicals released by a plastics plant created a Superfund site. news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-a...

The most important take away from the new #MAHA report? All talk and no action. #softonpesticides #softontoxics prheucsf.blog/2025/09/09/m...

“It’s almost like a slap in the face of the people from the #MAHA movement who legitimately care about pesticide exposures and how that impacts their kids,” said Tracey Woodruff www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/w...

"Researchers and regulators dispute the degree to which pesticides bear responsibility, and the Environmental Protection Agency continues to allow paraquat to be used in the United States — even as dozens of other countries have banned it." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...

“If they overturn this, it would leave the public responsible for cleaning up, not the companies that knowingly polluted the land.” @traceywoodruff.bsky.social

Science Associate Emily Lasher, MSPH will be presenting for International Society of Exposure Science on some of her terrific work with PRHE. We hope you will join us for the webinar on September 17th at 11am ET! Register at: lnkd.in/g2S-5m7E

The report found "that most of the plants — 17 out of 20 — have failed to comply with provisions of the Clean Air Act for at least one quarter in the past three years. And half of the plants were out of compliance for all three years."

"Healthcare professionals should be alarmed by this reckless proposal to place financial considerations above the interests of our patients, communities, and future generations." #EPA #EndangermentFinding

The plastics and fossil fuel industries succeeded in stopping a global plastics treaty to protect people from the avalanche of plastic and the toxic chemicals that make it. Do they think they are safe from plastic-related health harms? insideclimatenews.org/news/1608202...

Scientists are creating new and better methods to identify toxic chemicals in people and figure out how they are impacting our health. theconversation.com/how-to-impro...

Want to learn about the latest science on how toxic chemicals including pesticides, chemicals in plastics, clothing, and ones you've never heard of impact pregnancy and children's health? Check out our latest blog and join PRHE at ISEE. prheucsf.blog/2025/08/13/p...

Dr. Tracey Woodruff speaks to the rising health harms from plastic and microplastics. It's urgent that health be prioritized over the plastic and fossil fuel industries in the new global plastic treaty. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Rising sea levels are raising risks of spreading hazardous chemicals in residential neighborhoods. And that puts people's health in jeopardy. Learn what we can be done to prevent these crises. prheucsf.blog/2025/08/07/r...

"The report also highlights critical shortcomings in current toxicity assessment, research and testing methods, exposing the ways in which existing checks and balances are failing to protect human and planetary health." www.motherjones.com/environment/...

EPA science has helped to protect people from asbestos, PFAS, and TCE. EPA scientists work to clean up chemical spills, hurricane disasters, and even anthrax terror attacks. The only ones who benefit from dismantling EPA's science are polluters. www.eenews.net/articles/epa...

"Under an obscure section of the Clean Air Act, the president can temporarily exempt industrial facilities from new rules if their continued operation is in the interest of national security..."

How does a microplastics researcher avoid microplastics? Important tips from Dr. Tracey Woodruff. www.msn.com/en-us/health...

This move is very bad for people and health. Polluters must be thrilled. grist.org/politics/thi...

This is a must-read report from @ucs.org. They have documented 402 attacks on science, many of which will undermine health and affect people for generations. The truth is: #ScienceSavesLives

Really important work here from @nrdc.org that calls into question why EPA would eliminate new standards designed to reduce PFAS in drinking water. www.nrdc.org/press-releas...

It is not easy for individuals to reduce their exposure to toxic chemicals. We need systemic change to reduce the production and use of harmful plastics and chemicals. insightplus.mja.com.au/2025/27/are-...

There is no safe way to recycle plastics that contain thousands of toxic chemicals. Negotiators of the new plastics treaty need to push back on industry's false narrative that we can "recycle" our way out of the plastics crisis. prheucsf.blog/2025/07/09/s...

BREAKING: Trump's EPA appears to be backing down on repealing asbestos ban. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/c...

“It just shows who they care more about, which is the polluting facilities and their donors and not the people who actually are going to suffer from this,” Woodruff said. publichealthwatch.org/2025/07/02/h...

Science and health should guide EPA's mission, not politics or corporate profits. www.science.org/content/arti...