Farmers are the bellwether.
‘There’s no oversight, there’s no regulation, there’s no organization, there’s no guardrails of any kind,’ Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller
www.agriculture.com/partners-far...
Lots of poop talk today.
A major loophole.
“Few disclosure rules exist for data center water use, allowing companies to choose what to make public and to create their own reporting methodologies” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/t...
“The widespread use of wastewater surveillance in the United States is one of the greatest advancements in communicable disease surveillance in a generation,” apnews.com/article/meas...
Water source protection is public health 101. Prevention of pollution (harm) is cost effective and best for health. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/n...
It’s all about the jet stream. The Arctic is warming at rapid speed and destabilizing the jet stream that keeps this Arctic air in the Arctic.
Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work.
Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world.
(Published May 2024)
This is a travesty, eliminating #PublicHealth loans for PT, OT, MPH, DrPH and many other degrees. They are trying to kill us.
NHANES is a national treasure of health data that we must stand up for.
RIFs at CDC.
Destroying the Epidemic Intelligence Service, NCIRD, NCIPC & a dozen other areas/divisions/branches will cause enormous harm and suffering to America, and indeed to the whole world.
Call your Reps about it.
Then call them again.
Loss of people involved in NSF activities (see link for complete report)
The White House projects its FY 2026 budget would result in over 75,000 lost research jobs and over 150,000 fewer students and teachers who engage with STEM programs and research nationwide.
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The Navajo Nation is 60x less likely to have piped water than most Americans.
“And it’s very expensive for our people to haul their own, and they have to ration, which has had a direct impact on the health of the Navajo Nation.”
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
Toxicology principle that needs to be mainstream:
The dose makes the poison.
That’s true of everything. Water. Oxygen. Vitamin A. Vitamin D. Aspartame. Formaldehyde.
A single pear contains 120 times MORE formaldehyde than what might be in a vaccine.
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Our water treatment workers are public health heroes and now the front line for thwarting cyber security attacks.
Great piece to give a listen. Favorite quote: “I don't really have the background to be fending off foreign entities, you know?”
Schistosomiasis is such a challenging disease to prevent. Well done @apoorvanyt.bsky.social for this excellent piece.
“Without clean water and other changes to accompany the treatment programs, the effectiveness of the drugs is already limited.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/h...?
Important to point out here that many of these now cancelled EPA Community Change grants were awarded under the Biden administration and went to communities in red states that are neglected by their own state governments
Alabama lost a $14m grant to upgrade sanitation systems. A historically Black Virginia neighborhood won’t receive $20m to stop severe flooding. Louisiana lost grants to monitor air quality in “Cancer Alley,” an 80-mile stretch of mostly Black towns.
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
EPA decides not to defend federal drinking water standards for PFAS chemicals in court - CBS Albany cbs6albany.com/news/local/e...
This is an excellent piece by @nickkristof.bsky.social “Environmental health is hard. It requires juggling trade-offs and making complex choices with insufficient knowledge.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...
Another reason to hate golf: “living within a mile of a golf course more than doubles a person’s odds of developing Parkinson’s”
“Paraquat symbolizes the challenges of environmental health and chemical regulation… Companies, following the tobacco playbook, hire lobbyists and highlight the uncertainties” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...
More great news for Big Diarrhea!
Glad they got me on record using my most scientific terms
"After local officials give the all-clear, it’s a good idea to let the water run for a while to flush the pipes of any residual gunk" ☣️🚿
@nataliegexum.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/w...
“We want to empower kids to become change-makers and messengers in their own communities." @johnshopkinsehe.bsky.social's @nataliegexum.bsky.social is working with high school MERIT scholars to supercharge community outreach to address lead pipes in Baltimore. engineering.jhu.edu/news/getting...
Staying hopeful the EPA will uphold this rule that gives cities and towns a 10-year deadline to replace all of their lead pipes apnews.com/article/epa-...
Re-upping one small idea: Universities should commit to preserving library/journal/software access for students and researchers who have to leave academia because of funding cuts. We need concrete, practical ways of preserving scholarship.
We should be expanding wastewater surveillance to help guide farms in more effectively implementing costly biosecurity measures. But even the limited wastewater surveillance we have is imperiled by looming budget cuts. www.statnews.com/2025/03/21/h...
This study found that embassy air monitoring program substantially reduced pollution and premature death. Thats a great ROI: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Air quality monitoring at our embassies brought awareness and data transparency that otherwise did not exist. Why take down such an effective program that improved health?
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