Max Lugavere, popular health and science journalist, filmmaker, and bestselling author, interviews longtime journalist and TNL Editor-in-Chief Carey Gillam about her work, including a recent investigative story about the secretive work orchestrated by a US company to control food policies in foreign countries in ways that favor chemical companies.
TNL Editor-in-chief Carey Gillam joined the Green Sense Radio show on WBBM Chicago to discuss the Make America Healthy Again report, how pesticide makers are seeking legislative immunity from litigation, and why regenerative agriculture is in the news.
TNL Editor-in-Chief Carey Gillam spoke with the More Perfect Union journalism outlet, offering insights into Bayer’s battle over Roundup litigation, Monsanto’s long history of deception, and the latest concerns over pesticide links to disease.
By George Kimbrell
On Sept. 9, the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission released its long-awaited “Make Our Children Healthy Again” Strategy Report, which was supposed to set policy recommendations that would address the urgent public health crisis caused by our industrial food system. Unfortunately, but perhaps predictably, and as foreshadowed by a leaked draft report in August, at the end of the day the MAHA commission utterly betrayed the grassroots MAHA movement, and anyone else that cares about creating a healthier future for our food, serving up only a few crumbs instead of the healthy new meal promised.
The popularity of residential solar is seeing a steep reversal due to shifting state and federal policies driven by powerful utility interests. And while some say the decline is simply a mild adjustment, others fear the market for residential solar may be on the brink of a long-term slide.
A long-awaited and highly controversial report issued on Tuesday by the Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) commission provides a few “crumbs” for public and environmental health advocates, but big wins for powerful food and chemical industries seeking to skirt limits on their products and practices.
Congress is proposing to strip away key safeguards aimed at protecting military personnel, firefighters and their families from exposure to toxic PFAS chemicals. TNL reporter Shannon Kelleher breaks down what you need to know.
By Brian Bienkowski
As the US wrestles with how to deal with widespread PFAS pollution in drinking water supplies, most utilities are lacking advanced filtration systems that could protect public health from not just PFAS but an array of harmful contaminants, according to a new study.
By Shannon Kelleher
In a move celebrated by US meat and poultry producers but mourned by environment and health advocates, federal regulators are walking back a proposed rule that would have strengthened water pollution standards for slaughterhouse operators.
By Carey Gillam
When a team of scientists embarked two years ago on a $1 million landmark study of Iowa’s persistent water quality problems, they knew that the findings would be important to share. But now, after the completed study pointed to agricultural pollution as a significant source of the key US farm state’s water quality problems, public officials have quietly stripped funding away from plans to promote the study findings.