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Groups move for disclosure of Chemours’ sealed PFAS documents

1 week ago | thenewlede.org | Carey Gillam

By Trisha Talton, Coastal ReviewThe chemical manufacturing company that has publicly touted its products, business strategies and chemistries in ad campaigns aimed at polishing its image will further harm North Carolinians if it is successful in keeping thousands of pages of documents sealed in court, environmental organizations argue.
Mississippi River named the most endangered of 2025

1 week ago | thenewlede.org | Carey Gillam

By Madeline Heim, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and Delaney Dryfoos, The LensThe Mississippi River ranks as the nation’s most endangered river as federal plans to cut flood relief programs meet with a rise in severe weather, a new report warns.
Unsafe sleeping? Mattresses may expose children to toxins as they sleep, studies find

1 week ago | thenewlede.org | Carey Gillam

While monsters under the bed may be just childhood fantasy, parents might have real reason to fear what’s lurking in their children’s mattresses. These mattresses can contain a variety of toxic chemicals including flame retardants and substances called “plasticizers” that make materials softer and more flexible, exposing kids and babies as they sleep to harmful emissions linked to issues with cognitive function, asthma, cancer and other health problems, according to new peer-reviewed research.
Unsafe sleeping? Mattresses may expose children to toxins as they sleep, studies find

1 week ago | thenewlede.org | Carey Gillam

By Shannon KelleherWhile monsters under the bed may be just childhood fantasy, parents might have real reason to fear what’s lurking in their children’s mattresses.
US butterfly population in peril, declined 22% in two decades

1 week ago | thenewlede.org | Carey Gillam

By Olivia Cohen, The GazetteAs coordinator of the Iowa Butterfly Monitoring Network, Nathan Brockman was not surprised at recent headlines showing butterfly population numbers across the country in steep decline. From 2000 to 2020, butterfly populations fell by 22% across about 554 species, a group of 33 authors from nonprofits, universities, and state and federal agencies recently reported. Habitat loss, a warming climate and chemical use in agriculture are among the factors.
Thousands of US water systems show dangerous levels of cancer-causing chemicals

2 weeks ago | thenewlede.org | Carey Gillam

Millions of people across the United States could be drinking water contaminated with dangerous levels of substances created when utilities disinfect water tainted with animal manure and other pollutants, according to a report released Thursday. An analysis of testing results from community water systems in 49 states found that nearly 6,000 such systems serving 122 million people recorded an unsafe level of chemicals known as trihalomethanes at least once during testing from 2019 to 2023.
RFK Jr. directs CDC to stop promoting fluoridation; EPA will re-assess practice

2 weeks ago | thenewlede.org | Douglas Main

Citing health concerns, newly appointed Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said this week that he will direct the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to stop recommending that states add fluoride to their water, and will convene a federal taskforce of independent health experts to study the health risks presented by the practice while establishing a new “optimal” level.
Amid EPA upheaval, states fear loss of strong federal limits on PFAS in drinking water

2 weeks ago | thenewlede.org | Shannon Kelleher

With the looming possibility that the Trump administration could reduce federal limits on toxic PFAS chemicals in drinking water, public health advocates are warning that people across the country would suffer. Concerns for the future of the federal limits come amid ongoing litigation over the federal limits on six per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in drinking water.
“Plastics addiction” is killing us, experts say, but hope remains

2 weeks ago | thenewlede.org | Douglas Main

Plastics are negatively impacting our health in shocking ways, with the problem growing worse over time amid lax government regulations, a group of scientists and policy experts warned on Thursday. “We have, I think, a plastics addiction,” said Shanna Swan, a professor and epidemiologist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, said in a livestreamed conference hosted by Moms Clean Air Force. “The regulatory system is broken, in the way it fails to protect us,” Swan said.
Postcard from California: Trump vs. the delta smelt

3 weeks ago | thenewlede.org | Carey Gillam

The most powerful man in the world is waging war on a tiny, almost extinct fish. The fish is the minnow-like delta smelt, less than three inches long with a lifespan of only a year. Its sole natural habitat is the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta – a marshy maze of more than 1,100 miles of waterways, levees and islands where its namesake rivers intertwine.