Chokehold: The Trump administration’s stealth plan to unleash poisonous air
The EPA stopped valuing the lives it could save, setting up a deregulatory disaster that will be hazardous to your health.
Opinion
Trump executive order on glyphosate is a “fake news fantasy”
Wherever Trump looks, he sees existential threats to America that do not exist. He invents fantasy crises as a pretext to exercise emergency powers, like the emergency tariffs just invalidated by the Supreme Court.
Postcard From California: LA fire recovery stymied by insurance system ill-equipped for climate crisis
The fires that ravaged Los Angeles County last January destroyed or partially burned more than 18,000 homes and other structures and blanketed a like number in toxic smoke and soot. A year later, recovery is lagging: Fewer than a dozen destroyed homes have been rebuilt, and less than 1,000 rebuilds are on track for this year.
Coming to a social media post near you – a “MAHA-washed” dicamba approval
To start the new year off on the right foot, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin needed something he could sell to the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement.
The corporate capture of MAHA: How the chemical lobby is stealing our health again
MAHA has been played.
For months leading up to the 2024 election, the “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) movement captivated a nation overwhelmed by chronic diseases. I found hope in a powerful promise regarding our food supply: we would finally stop poisoning our own people.
OSHA failing to protect US workers breathing cancer-causing air
Workers across the country should never face the prospect of developing cancer simply by performing the jobs they are entrusted to do and contributing to the strength of the economy.
What a nutrition expert says to take (and skip) from the new dietary guidelines
Since being announced this month, the 2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGAs) have received significant attention. As a registered dietitian, here’s what I suggest taking and leaving from the DGAs.
Combatting agricultural pollution: Michigan’s new manure management rules
Michigan issued new requirements to the state’s big livestock and poultry producers to more safely manage the brown tide of manure they spread each year on farm fields. The state’s Farm Bureau and large livestock operations vow to fight.
Postcard from California: The ‘literal dumpster fire’ burning under an LA suburb
In a canyon 40 miles north of downtown Los Angeles, a fire is smoldering. Unlike the forest fires that erupt every year in Southern California, this fire is 30 feet underground. It’s been spewing toxic gases for three years, with no end in sight.
Postcard from California: Disclosing the full climate impacts of big businesses
ExxonMobil is one of the world’s worst climate polluters, emitting more than 90 million metric tons of greenhouse gases in 2024. But that only accounts for its direct emissions from oil and gas drilling, refining gasoline and other fossil fuels, as well as from producing plastics.