Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Long hours of work in the sun can result in fatigue, cramps, dehydration, heat stroke, and other health issues. In addition, pesticide labels are often printed in English only; farmworker groups around the country have been advocating for labels in other languages to increase accessibility to vital health and safety information.

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Energy & the Law

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

A court imposing a federal equity receivership assumes jurisdiction over the property of the subject entity. Federal receivers must comply with state law and cannot abandon property if doing so would violate a state law reasonably calculated to protect public health or safety from immediate and identifiable harm.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2024

To claim, as industry comments are trying to do, that political leadership is somehow marginalized by a scientific integrity policy is like claiming that a restaurant owner is somehow marginalized when their restaurant undergoes a health and safety inspection.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 17, 2023

This gives patients and health providers full access to the drug until then, but these measures are woefully temporary and it is uncertain what access patients can expect to have to mifepristone in the weeks ahead. None of us should be subjected to such a world. Late on Friday, Justice Samuel A. But this is not how things will end.

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NAEP Leadership Blog

APRIL 26, 2023

Climate shifts, catastrophic weather events, and the continued loss of biodiversity are just some of the happenings that are subject to mass environmental disruption. On planet earth, humans nurture and torture. Earth’s natural limits are dependent on our connections to all that is living.

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Frontiers

JUNE 26, 2023

Credit: Frontiers AR/VR metaverse to improve mental health Mental health is widely acknowledged as one of the most pressing issues of our time. Although excessive screen and social media use have been associated with decreased mental wellbeing, AR and VR metaverse spaces are also being used to help combat the mental health crisis.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 18, 2023

ignited the controversy last Monday when he said his agency, which regulates dangerous household products, should consider banning gas stoves because of the threat they pose to public health and the environment. Besides posing a threat to public health, gas stoves threaten the climate. Tom Cotton. Gas stoves trigger asthma.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 3, 2023

Cinnamon Carlarne and I have written a book that tries to give an overview of the whole subject, including U.S. Other impacts (health, agriculture, etc.) Most people, even those who work on the field, tend to focus on just a few elements. and international law. climate policy. Adaptation A. Coastal areas and flood plains B.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 10, 2022

The hearing also featured testimony from staff at the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) which recently issued a report showing the deficiencies in policies and procedures for ensuring scientific integrity at public health agencies. “Science has been pivotal in protecting the health and safety of people during the pandemic.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 15, 2023

Ensuring that people have access to accurate information to make science-based and informed decisions is crucial for public health and safety. Recently, both misinformation and disinformation have contributed to the high human health toll from COVID-19, especially among Indigenous and other Communities of Color.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 21, 2024

Kevin Boyle, Subject Of Arrest Warrant -- Inquirer: Warrant Issued For Arrest Of Democratic Rep. Kevin Boyle For PFA Violation -- TribLive Editorial: Mental Health Is More Important Than Political Power [Rep.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2023

These long-delayed regulations will reduce public health harms that communities near these facilities have been exposed to for decades. The rule could go further to protect public health The proposal will cover at least 86 commercial sterilization facilities across the United States and Puerto Rico. Fenceline monitoring saves lives.

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Microbial communities, or microbiomes, are essential for safeguarding human and environmental health through the most widely used biotechnological process on our planet: biological wastewater treatment.

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Law and Environment

MARCH 9, 2024

There are definitely environmental and public health NGOs who will want EPA to do so. That rationale cannot be sustained. It will be interesting to see whether EPA takes up the Court’s invitation. My guess is that EPA will delay a decision on that question until after the 2024 elections, but my guesses have been wrong before.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Recognizing States’ structural incentives to reap the benefits of industrial activity while exporting its health and environmental costs, Congress mandated that EPA step in with a federal plan to control cross-border pollution where States fail to do so in the first instance. Meanwhile, the D.C. EPA , 23-1157).

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

There are many important societal issues that don’t get high priority in law school, such as the availability of health care or public health law. Land use law is another subject that may be transformed by climate change. As usually happens, when I got past that gut reaction, things got more complicated.

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Law and Environment

MARCH 9, 2022

The study estimates that more than half of Americans alive in 2015 had been subject to unsafe blood lead levels as children. When EPA first regulated leaded gasoline, the public health community believed that there was clear evidence of the dangers it posed. I just hope that, when the public health accounting on PM 2.5

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Questions should be directed to Carol Grayshaw at cgrayshaw@weconservepa.org with the subject “FMP grant app.” Applications will be accepted and reviewed on a rolling basis through May 31, 2024, or until all project funds are committed, whichever comes first. WeConservePA will award up to $150,000 in total grants for this planning work.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The Court’s ruling has been harshly criticized, particularly because it was based on an extremely subjective standard — the Court’s view that the regulation raised “issues of vast economic and political significance.” The Court depicted the regulations in question as radical.

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Frontiers

JULY 23, 2023

Yasuda is the author of a new article in Frontiers in Public Health which discusses how best to protect hospital patients during nuclear emergencies, and has kindly taken the time to share some thoughts about his career and research as part of the Frontiers Scientist series. Can you tell us about the research you’re currently working on?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 24, 2023

Laboring outdoors on the front lines of the climate crisis, farmworkers face disproportionate impacts from extreme weather: recent research from the National Institutes of Health found agricultural workers are 35 times more likely to die from heat than other workers. billion for research and education in 2022 alone.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Early in the year, Jonathan Zasloff undertook a series of blog posts on the subject, as in this story where Zasloff shows at a local level why CEQA remains California’s most important environmental law. Ruthie Lazenby is writing a series on the subject, clarifying misconceptions and explaining the stakes of this new policy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 29, 2023

Funding clean vehicles is critical for California’s climate and public health From unprecedented wildfires and extreme heat to historic drought and devastating flooding , the climate crisis is here, and it has hit California hard in recent years. California’s clean vehicle future is hanging in the balance.

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Frontiers

MAY 9, 2022

However, most previous research investigated them in isolation and using subjective measures such as surveys, leading to an incomplete picture. Chronic pain is a major public health concern, especially among veterans,” said first author Prof Irina Strigo of the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Health Care Center.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 23, 2023

Devon Payne-Sturges (pictured above left, and hereafter “DPS”) is a Doctor of Public Health (Dr. PH) at the UMD School of Public Health who specializes in cumulative environmental health risks and social disparities and has published on systems approaches to environmental health protections. Dr. Robert H.

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Law and Environment

JULY 15, 2021

If this becomes just another in a long line of screeds on the subject that all Superfund cleanups take too long, it will accomplish nothing for cleanups in general or EJ communities in particular. More importantly, if implemented appropriately, it could help reduce the risks posed by Superfund sites in overburdened EJ communities. .

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Physics World

JULY 21, 2021

A research team headed up at the University of Texas Health Science Center has now performed a detailed study of how such a powered exoskeleton affects patients’ neuromuscular coordination following a stroke. For the stroke subjects, three motor modules were sufficient in their paretic leg. Gait training.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2022

There is no age group in this country that scores higher than 63 out of 100 on the Healthy Eating Index, a validated tool used to measure the healthfulness of what we eat. With all of this in mind, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) unveiled a new report last week outlining the steps it is taking to address the national nutrition crisis.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 24, 2023

Today’s subject is pollution control for new vehicles, which have been known to cause smog since the 1960s. NOx plays a role in forming ground level ozone and final particulates (PM2.5), both of which are human health hazards. This is part of an occasional series of posts about the evolution of pollution standards.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 22, 2023

The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics has made an unusual change that will make the regulation of PFAS chemicals even harder , potentially letting thousands of these dangerous “forever chemicals” escape EPA regulation, thereby endangering the health of millions of people.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 22, 2023

He is now serving as a subject matter expert — so despite Mr. Bettencourt’s public advocacy for limited government, he must know he’s promoting a federal government program.

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Law and Environment

OCTOBER 28, 2021

First, EPA published its human health toxicity assessment for “GenX chemicals,” also known as hexafluoropropylene oxide (“HFPO”) dimer acid (and don’t forget its ammonium salt!). Adding the PFAS compounds to Appendix VIII subjects them to potential corrective action requirements. There were two important items this week.

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Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 6, 2023

Subject to Climate has compiled climate change information for non-science teachers: ESL, social studies, math, ELA, art, social science, HS subjects, health with easy ways to incorporate climate change into non-science classes.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 30, 2023

A 2020 report by the UN Special Rapporteur on Toxic Wastes and Human Rights pointed to “a pattern in Canada where marginalized groups, and Indigenous peoples in particular, find themselves on the wrong side of a toxic divide, subject to conditions that would not be acceptable elsewhere in Canada.” The bill now moves to the Senate.

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 15, 2023

Article IX, Section 1 , of the Montana Constitution provides that: (1) The state and each person shall maintain and improve a clean and healthful environment in Montana for present and future generations. (2) The The basis for the Court’s decision was straightforward.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Alison Steele, Executive Director of the Environmental Health Project , provided comments on the gaps in health and safety regulation to protect oil and gas industry workers and the public. We have been subjected to continual gas inhalation, methanol byproducts, carbon monoxide, H2S [hydrogen sulfide] gas, etc., Read more here.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 13, 2023

Ministry of the Environment and Others, from 2018, Colombia’s highest court ruled in favor of a group of 25 children and youth recognizing that their “fundamental rights of life, health, the minimum subsistence, freedom, and human dignity are substantially linked and determined by the environment and the ecosystem.”

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