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What is “chemical recycling” of plastics, anyway?

Join our webinar this Thursday with Dr. Veena Singla & Dr. Nihan Karali to learn about the health impacts & technological limits of this approach to plastic disposal.

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Photo: Black Hawk Creek, which pours into the Cedar River in Northeast Iowa, August 12, 2025. Credit: Kamyar Enshayan

💦 Our February 2026 newsletter is all about the #WATER. 💦

Whether it's about unjust usage, contamination, or as a disease vector, we must protect water, and can do so by practicing #democracy.

This month's authors also show water's links to migration and immigrants. 🫶

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No one should have to worry about harmful chemicals in the water they drink or the food they eat.

Our 2026 analysis finds at least 33 states are stepping up to address #PFAS, plastics, and other toxic chemicals. #StatesInTheLead

Read more here: www.saferstates.org/press-room/e...

Happy Black History Month! AoC honors our fellows whose research has advanced environmental justice in African American communities, as well as activists and scholars whose past work continues to inspire change. 🌟

There is No Scientific Justification to Revoke the Endangerment Finding The U.S. EPA's decision to repeal the Endangerment Finding will limit the government's ability to regulate emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.

As I say here, there is no scientific justification to revoke the engagement finding. In fact, over the last 15+ yrs, the evidence of how climate change affects our health has only grown. Higher risk of allergies, dementia, fertility, heart disease, and death: that’s what’s on the line. @nature.org

Opinion | The EPA Just Made Our Air Less Safe to Breathe Repealing the Endangerment Finding will shape our clinical reality for years to come

The EPA Just Made Our Air Less Safe to Breathe www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/clim...

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TODAY - join us for a conversation with Dr. Shuo Xiao about how exposure to chemical mixtures can impact reproductive health.

Coming up soon, but not too late to register!

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Join us next Thurs Jan 22 for a CHE Café conversation about the importance of state leadership on environmental health.

Author Susan Kaplan & state policy expert Sarah Doll will explore trends, lessons & opportunities.

Learn more & RSVP here: www.healthandenvironment.org/che-webinars...

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Join us next Thurs Jan 22 for a CHE Café conversation about the importance of state leadership on environmental health.

Author Susan Kaplan & state policy expert Sarah Doll will explore trends, lessons & opportunities.

Learn more & RSVP here: www.healthandenvironment.org/che-webinars...

Many thanks from all of us on the CHE team for our work together in 2025.

Wishing good health to all in the year ahead!

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TODAY - join us for an informal conversation with Dr. Ray Dorsey, co-author of The Parkinson’s Plan, and Dr. Ted Schettler, who has long been interested in environmental influences on aging.

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The Chemical Footprint of a Plastic Bottle The global beverage industry buys more than 500 billion plastic bottles every year to package its products. A recent report documents the harmful impacts of plastic bottles on human health,…

The global beverage industry buys more than 500 billion plastic bottles every year to package its products. Bend the Curve and @che-healthenv.bsky.social break down the environmental and health impacts of these billions of bottle.
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Want to learn more about plastic chemicals?

Join this conversation with experts later today organized by our friends @beyondplastics.bsky.social - registration link below.

Starting now! Not too late to join us - RSVP below.

Join us TOMORROW for a discussion with expert about how plastic building materials affect health & the environment throughout their life cycle — with a focus on artificial turf as a case study.

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Dismantling of US federal agencies will ‘destroy science’ From NASA to the National Institutes of Health, federal agencies conduct research that universities cannot. Agency scientists speak out about the irreplaceable facilities, institutional knowledge and ...

Great article from @virginiagewin.bsky.social showing that across the Federal science ecosystem, research that benefits the American public is being delayed or completely halted, and remaining programs are being consolidated under close partisan political control. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Rising heat kills one person a minute worldwide, major report reveals Biggest analysis of its kind finds millions are dying each year because of failure to tackle climate crisis

Listen to doctors. The climate crisis is a public health crisis. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Scientists had to change more than 700 grant titles to receive NIH funding. Health disparities researchers fear what’s next The titles of more than 700 multi-year NIH grants have been changed this year, according to an analysis by Jeremy Berg, a former agency official

Another great piece from @aniloza.bsky.social on how cutting words harms science and erases human beings.

Every day I am heartened by the community of NIH people who are pushing back. @nihvigils.bsky.social @27unihted.bsky.social @savehealthresearch.bsky.social

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TODAY - not too late to register, hope you can join us!

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Join us THIS Thursday for “Science in a shifting political landscape.”

Darya Minovi, Dr. Kristie Ellickson & Dr. Rashmi Joglekar will discuss how current attacks on science undermine research & public health.

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TODAY - Pls join us to hear Dr. Merlin Chowkwanyun of Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health give an overview and tour of ToxicDocs, an online database of chemical industry documents.

Starting soon! Not too late to RSVP: www.healthandenvironment.org/che-webinars...

Our children are not OK Ten years ago the Children’s Environmental Health Network (CEHN), a national non-profit with the mission to protect all children from environmental hazards, launched Children’s...

On Children's Environmental Health Day, here's a call to action from CEHN's Director Nse Obot Witherspoon:

"Now more than ever, we need child health champions to stand up, have courage & raise their voice. If not us, then who?"

@cehnetwork.bsky.social

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Who Knows What’s in Our Air? A Case Study in Louisiana – Environmental Data and Governance Initiative Air quality monitors measure pollutants like particulate matter, ozone, and nitrogen oxides in the air we breathe—pollutants closely linked to public health. In the past, ways to measure air quality a...

Why is citizen air monitoring important? EDGI’s Environmental Enforcement Watch demonstrates with a case study in Louisiana. Check out the blog: envirodatagov.org/who-knows-wh...

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One week ‘til CEH Day!

All children deserve clean air and water, safe food and products, and healthy places to live, learn and play.

That’s why we work to protect children’s environmental health - & why we’re excited for Children's Environmental Health Day October 9! Join us: cehday.org

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Join us TOMORROW for an EDC Strategies Partnership webinar w/Dr. Christina Rudén of Stockholm University. She will address why assessing the risk of chemicals one at a time is not sufficient to protect human health. 

@healthandenv.bsky.social

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Burning Down the EPA: Documenting the Second Trump Administration’s Historic Assault – Environmental Data and Governance Initiative Under Administrator Zeldin, the EPA has begun incinerating many of the environmental and health protections this agency has provided for decades. Since […]

In a new report, EDGI documents the assault on the EPA currently taking place under the second Trump administration. Findings show an EPA that is swiftly being hollowed out and made to work for polluters rather than the health of the public.
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This month, our Amplifying Voices series highlights two inspiring & instrumental leaders in the Global Plastics Treaty negotiations. Meet Pamela Miller, founder of ACAT, & Frankie Orona, Executive Director of the Society of Native Nations.

Visit our Instagram page (@che_healthenv) to learn more.

This month, our Amplifying Voices series highlights two inspiring & instrumental leaders in the Global Plastics Treaty negotiations. Meet Pamela Miller, founder of ACAT, & Frankie Orona, Executive Director of the Society of Native Nations.

Visit our Instagram page (@che_healthenv) to learn more.

Chemical pollution a threat comparable to climate change, scientists warn More than 100 million ‘novel entity’ chemicals are in circulation, with health impact not widely recognised

NEW scientific report from @guardian calls chemical pollution “a threat to the thriving of humans & nature of a similar order as climate change” - but notes public awareness & action are decades behind.

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The Lancet Countdown on health and plastics Plastics are a grave, growing, and under-recognised danger to human and planetary health. Plastics cause disease and death from infancy to old age and are responsible for health-related economic losse...

NEW article in The Lancet highlights health harms of plastics across the life cycle.

"Plastics are a grave, growing, and underrecognized danger to human and planetary health."

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...