"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...

Recycling is usually a positive thing, but when it comes to recycling plastics, it unleashes health-harming microplastics and chemicals. We need a new approach. webstories.theguardian.com/stories/uk/2...

“The clothes people wear shouldn’t come with this hidden risk to their health,” said Emily Lasher, lead author of the study and science associate at UCSF Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment (PRHE). www.thenewlede.org/2025/06/clot... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"We've known for generations that asbestos is lethal, yet the U.S. has continued to allow some industries to value profits over people." - U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley www.thecooldown.com/green-busine...

One way the Trump administration could protect reproductive health is to regulate PFAS so people aren't exposed to these harmful chemicals in the first place. #EPA www.innovationnewsnetwork.com/us-project-i...

"But there’s no tackling climate change and plastic pollution without addressing the underlying cause — fossil fuels." www.theverge.com/news/688616/...

The government and corporations need to do a MUCH better job of keeping harmful chemicals out of products people use everyday. www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...

"'You can't say one thing and do another,' says Sue Fenton, who directs the Center for Human Health and the Environment at NC State University, contrasting the administration's rhetoric about clean water and air with its actions." www.npr.org/sections/sho...

They are delaying a ban on asbestos. Read what this means for the future regulation of all toxic harms. prheucsf.blog/2025/06/17/t...

The battle to ban asbestos has been going on for decades. Each time EPA makes progress, industry finds a way to delay the ban. This wouldn't happen if our regulatory system listened to the science and prioritized health. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...

Seems like now would be an especially bad time to eliminate clean water protections. www.msn.com/en-us/health...

“Chemical industries and their lobbyists have used deny, deflect, sow doubt and delay tactics in the past to prevent and slow regulation on chemicals." - Prof Alex Ford, University of Portsmouth. Add a new tactic: redefine. #PFAS www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This will lead to more pollution. Much more. Air pollution impacts pregnancy, child development, cardiovascular and respiratory health, and can kill people. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"... the year-long delay is an 'ominous sign that they won’t hold the industry accountable for anything' and 'will result in virtually no regulation of toxic chemicals.'” - Daniel Rosenberg, NRDC www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...

EPA is supposed to protect people from harmful chemicals - and that includes the misuse of toxic chemicals. Important investigative work from @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/epa-...

Protecting people from fires or working on farms should not raise your risk of brain tumors. prheucsf.blog/2025/06/10/c...

“The Clean Air Act, the EPA’s founding legislation, has been a powerful engine for improving public health as our air has grown visibly clearer and cleaner,” said Gina McCarthy... That will change if the new administration gets its way. apnews.com/article/epa-...

"The logical thing to do to 'make America healthy' might be to regulate the industries that profit from making us sick—restricting predatory food marketing, cleaning up our chemical environment, and ensuring that kids have access to nutritious options." slate.com/technology/2...

They say they want to make America healthy, but what they are doing will make people sicker. To truly make people healthier, it is vital to restore research funding and scientists need to be able to work without political or corporate interference. www.npr.org/2025/06/03/n...

Most people want the government to do a better job of protecting people from harmful chemicals. This move won't help. #PFAS #agriculture www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/ep...

The current administration is rolling back standards to reduce PFAS in drinking water and some lawmakers are trying to get legal immunity for #PFAS polluters. What does this mean for you? Spoiler alert: It's not good. prheucsf.blog/2025/06/03/t...

The only entity this benefits is the chemical industry. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/c...