PFAS “forever chemicals” are spreading across our environment, with devastating consequences for human health. Yet the government’s strategy focuses more on observation than action. Action Alert! Listen to the audio version of this article: THE TOPLINE The White House recently announced a new strategy to combat the ever-growing threat of PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances), […]
Reach out to Congress with a simple message: we need to stop poisoning our children. Action Alert! Listen to the audio version of this article: THE TOPLINE Every day, millions of American children are exposed to harmful toxins in their school lunches — toxins that have been linked to cancer, neurological damage, liver disease, and […]
Medicare is set to expand coverage to weight-loss drugs targeting obesity—but it looks more like another quick ‘fix’ that will make even more Americans drug-dependent, while enriching the coffers of the drug companies. Action Alert! Listen to the audio version of this article: THE TOPLINE The debate over whether Medicare should cover GLP-1 receptor antagonist […]
How government agencies meant to protect the public are utterly failing to keep our food safe and contaminant-free. Action Alert! Listen to the audio version of this article: THE TOPLINE In our busy lives, it’s hard to always eat fresh, healthy foods. When we take the time to cook meals with lots of fruits and […]
The EPA has already failed at protecting Americans from the dangers of chemical pesticides, but this new generation of products opens a whole new can of worms on safety that the EPA is doing its best to ignore. Action Alert! Are you ready for the next generation of gene-altering compounds that are going to be […]
The EPA has denied a Citizen’s Petition asking the agency to regulate “inert” pesticide ingredients that can be just as toxic to humans and the environment as the active ingredient. Action Alert! The Petition, submitted by the Center for Food Safety, called on the EPA to do more to assess the risks of pesticides to […]
A bill in Congress would ban perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and other dangerous chemicals from food packaging that presents a major route of exposure for millions of Americans. It needs our support. Action Alert! The No Toxics in Food Packaging Act of 2023 would ban the use of five chemicals or classes of chemicals […]
The laws and policies governing the use of genetically engineered (GE) soil microbes are confusing, outdated, and desperately inadequate given the potential risks to humans and the environment. We need to demand better of our lawmakers. Action Alert! A few weeks ago, we reported on the next big thing in the agrichemical industry: the use […]
Microplastics, synthetic chemicals like “forever” chemicals, and digital electromagnetic fields (EMF) saturate the world, but lawmakers seem content to let us be the guinea pigs as scientists sound the alarm about the dangers of these exposures. Action Alerts! A recent opinion piece in the New York Times, “Our Way of Life is Poisoning Us,” correctly […]
A sea change in approach over how the EPA classifies PFAS forever chemicals will allow thousands to escape regulation and poses serious risks to our health. This begs the question: is the EPA looking out for Americans or for the chemical industry? Action Alert! In contrast to almost all other regulatory authorities around the world, […]