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Five positions are open, including a Director, Public Policy Project Director, Science Project Director, and more. More info. Application deadlines are in May and June, 2025.

In this July 8 webinar, Drs. Kevin Elliott and Laura Vandenberg will discuss the range of ways in which scientists can frame and present information on research findings. For example, framing an EDC-related health outcome as a disease or disability can help to…

This May 29 webinar features UCSF's Center to End Corporate Harm, launched earlier this year to bring together scientists to more systematically study the mechanisms and strategies corporations use to delay and prevent regulation of their health harming…

Editor's note: This story was originally published in The New Lede, a journalism project of the Environmental Working Group, and is republished here with permission.US regulators are poised to approve a pesticide made with a controversial class of toxic…

Voters frustrated by high energy costs and inflation propelled Germany’s conservatives to power, prompting a recalibration of the country’s aggressive climate policies without fully abandoning its clean energy goals.Saqib Rahim reports for Grist.In…

El 60% de las escuelas de El Limón, en Jalisco, tienen huertos donde siembran sin químicos para mejorar la relación con el medio ambiente, la salud y la alimentación.

HOUSTON — Multiple Houston-area oil and gas facilities that have previously violated the pollution limits in their permits have recently applied for new federal operating permits or renewals.These facilities include the Chevron Pasadena Refining facility,…

Ashley couldn't stop staring at her hands. Swollen and slightly twisted, her fingers looked more like “deformed sausages,” as she described them, than what you’d expect to see in a relatively healthy twenty-seven-year-old woman. She held her hands out as…

PITTSBURGH — On Wednesday, the morning after hurricane-like weather conditions killed at least four people and caused power outages at more than 400,000 homes in southwestern Pennsylvania, community advocates and scientists held an event to discuss how…

Editor's note: This story was originally published in The New Lede, a journalism project of the Environmental Working Group, and is republished here with permission.Billed as a type of food system that works in harmony with nature, “regenerative”…

Hospitals have huge environmental footprints – here’s how building design can be more sustainable.

PITTSBURGH — The greater Pittsburgh metropolitan area is among the 25 regions in the country with the worst air pollution, according to a new report from the American Lung Association.The nonprofit public health organization’s annual “State of the Air”…

A growing number of evangelical churches and universities in Indiana are embracing renewable energy and environmental stewardship as a religious duty, reframing climate action through a spiritual lens.Catrin Einhorn reports for The New York TimesIn…

In California’s agricultural heartland, where fields of grapes and strawberries stretch for miles, a sharp, acrid smell often lingers in the air. That smell is sulfur dioxide — a toxic gas formed when elemental sulfur, the most widely used pesticide in the…

Health impacts are likely being underestimated by traditional risk models used by regulators, according to a new study that has found a different way to measure the cumulative risk air pollution poses to health. The new method, which accounts for the ways…

This article was originally published by U.S. Right To Know and is republished here with permission under a Creative Commons license.Chemicals found in common food packaging plastics like cling film and snack pouches may interfere with the body’s natural…

PITTSBURGH — International Recycling Group (IRG) has announced that they will cancel a planned plastic waste processing facility in Erie, Pennsylvania, due to President Trump’s federal funding cuts and tariffs, among other reasons.The facility, slated to…

Firefighters stand on the front lines of disaster, battling wildfires that may consume thousands of acres, responding to emergencies in rural communities, and putting themselves in harm’s way to keep their communities safe. Yet many do not know that the…

The May 10-13, 2025 Joint Congress of the European Society for Pediatric Endocrinology and the European Society of Endocrinology in Copenhagen features a number of sessions on endocrine disrupting chemicals:Plenary 4 - Adverse effects of endocrine disrupting…

Communities living near factory farms are using a new scientific tool to track pig feces in their homes — and fight back.Hana Mensendiek reports for U.S. Right To Know.In short:Residents in Duplin County, North Carolina, worked with Johns Hopkins scientists…

Editor's note: This story was originally published by The New Lede and is republished here with permission.Corn growers across Midwestern states appear to be flouting regulations aimed at protecting important waterways from contamination with toxic atrazine…

This May 8 webinar featured Dr. Linda Birnbaum, who discussed the implications of the Trump administration's changes for environmental health and the NIH. Sponsored by the EDC Strategies Partnership.

Eleven years ago Flint, Michigan, fatefully switched its drinking water supply to the Flint River. The consequences are well-documented: significant damage to pipes, a historic outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease, system-wide lead contamination. My…

PITTSBURGH — Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro ran on a promise to regulate Pennsylvania’s oil and gas industry more stringently. Two years into his term, the Environmental Health Project, a public health advocacy nonprofit focused on fracking, has…

Es un momento difícil para ser activista ambiental. En su primer día como presidente, Trump revirtió casi todo las políticas climáticas de la administración de Biden con una serie de órdenes ejecutivas. Desde entonces, la administración ha congelado la…

Haz clic aquí para leer este reportaje en inglés. To read a version of this story in English click here.A Byanka Santoyo se le quiebra la voz mientras explica lo que significa para ella SprayDays, el sistema estatal de notificación de pesticidas de…

Los ríos, lagos, acuíferos, suelos, plantas y hasta el aire están perdiendo agua en favor de los océanos.

It’s a difficult time to be an environmental advocate. On his first day as president, Trump reversed most of the Biden administration’s climate policies with a series of executive orders. Since then, the administration has frozen funding for clean energy…

Byanka Santoyo’s voice breaks while she explains what SprayDays, California’s statewide pesticide notification system, launched on Monday, means to her. “I told my daughter: When I die, I want this to be on my tombstone. I want everyone to know that I…

As Republicans push for trillions in tax cuts, oil and gas companies are lobbying to protect long-standing tax breaks and add new ones that could shield them from recently enacted corporate taxes.Nicholas Kusnetz reports for Inside Climate News.In short:The…