Over 120 people have been hospitalized due to measles in Utah alone. "It is, at this time a real threat in our state and something we can do to stop it," said Dr. Leisha Nolen, state epidemiologist… pleading for people to get themselves and their children vaccinated.” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
A bill introduced by Assemblymember Anna Kelles aims to harness home batteries, electric vehicles, and other clean tech to meet reliability needs.
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You know what WON’T get stuck in the Strait of Hormuz?
Solar and wind energy
Headshots of webinar speakers over stacked bales of plastic waste. Bottom steel blue background with webinar details and qr code overlaid.
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.
RSVP here:
www.healthandenvironment.org/che-webinars...
The chemical lobby wants to gut America's chemical safety law, but fortunately scientists and health advocates are pushing back. And an overwhelming majority of Americans are on the side of science and health, according to a recent Pew Foundation survey.
www.thenewlede.org/2026/02/heal...
Trump officials move to kill system that protects US from chemical disasters
The Trump administration issued its final decision today to strip federal #ESA protection from all populations of imperiled lesser prairie chicken.
In September, we filed an appeal challenging a #Texas court’s decision that cleared the way to strip the birds’ federal protections.🧵
bit.ly/46sNjG3
Our February newsletter just dropped and here’s the establishing shot by our editor—and my beloved colleague—Carmi Orenstein, MPH, who is so good at finding all the public health through lines and sight lines. @sehnetwork.bsky.social
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Because you really need to know how nitrates in Iowa’s drinking water are driving a statewide cancer crisis and why solving the problem requires more democracy.
By agricultural engineer and former local elected official, Kamyar Enshayan. @sehnetwork.bsky.social
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Portrait of Dr Sara Josephine Baker
Newspaper clip about Typhoid Mary
New essay by me on the history of typhoid fever in NYC featuring civil engineers, a cross-dressing LGBTQ icon 🏳️🌈, and the public health reasons why police should not stalk immigrant women. And yes also the Irish cook villainized as Typhoid Mary. @sehnetwork.bsky.social
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Terrifying yet super-important and deeply researched essay by my esteemed colleague at @sehnetwork.bsky.social, Peter Montague, on all the ways the climate-driven water crisis is driving social instability which in turn is driving a return to fascism.
www.sehn.org/sehn/2026/2/...
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. 🫶
www.sehn.org/sehn/2026/2/...
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
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...
🏔️ Restoring the Ecology of Health in the Anthropocene’s “Polycrisis” (Co-hosted by @sehnetwork.bsky.social with Carolyn Raffensperger, Ted Schettler, & Sandra Steingraber)
Americans face serious exposure to harmful chemicals that are linked to rising cancer rates, developmental disabilities, and chronic disease. Trump's campaign promised to address this crisis and "Make America Healthy Again." Instead, it is weakening the rules that protect us from toxic chemicals.
SCOTUS has never taken up Big Oil's arguments to kill climate lawsuits before. What changed?
For one, Alito didn't recuse himself, despite big $$ ties to oil companies that are defendants in many similar cases that would most likely be affected by a ruling here. And despite recusing in the past.
“This repeal has no basis in law, science or reality, and human health is at extreme risk.” Keenly awaited legal challenges question the Environmental Protection Agency’s reversal of the 2009 endangerment finding.
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“For those patients who have simply disappeared, we are left to wonder whether they are hiding at home, detained, deported or dead.” Three medical providers recount what it’s like caring for patients amid President Trump’s immigration crackdown.
Trump order seeks to protect weedkiller at center of barrage of lawsuits
Breaking: A coalition of health and environmental groups sued this morning over the Trump administration's decision to revoke the scientific finding that forms the basis of U.S. climate regulations. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
Independent experts appointed by human rights council speak of ‘grave’ nature regarding scale of atrocities against women and girls
They just wanted to grow food. Their suburban neighbors declared war.
After more than 1.2 Americans lost their lives to Covid, NIH director Jay Bhattacharya orders the agency to deprioritize pandemic preparedness & biodefense.
Make it make sense.
Scoop from @maxkozlov.bsky.social @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...
New drone footage from @floodlightnews.org - the fossil methane power plant Musk built specifically to create abusive and racist material on his social media website is still wildly breaching EPA regulations even after a ruling against using them -->>>
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🛢️ NEW 🛢️ The US fossil fuel industry produces a trillion gallons of toxic drilling wastewater a year — and gets rid of most of it by injecting it underground. What could go wrong? (A lot.) buff.ly/t96dPPI
A 2,500-home Texas subdivision and an elementary school sit on top of radioactive oil and gas drilling waste. The worker who helped spread it is now speaking out.
Image is an infographic showing an illustration of idle oil and gas wells near a hospital, school, and playground. A text overlay reads, "idle oil and gas wells are near thousands of California schools, hospitals, and playgrounds. It's time for oil and gas companies to clean them up."
Idle oil and gas wells threaten our safety, health, and climate.
They can leak climate-polluting gases like methane — explosive at high concentrations — and toxic chemicals like benzene, which is linked to several kinds of cancer.
#California has more than 30,000.
Learn more ➡️ bit.ly/4rQuJQx
Today, Trump's EPA officially made climate denial US policy. This is a slap in the face to Americans being battered by extreme weather, wildfires, droughts, and other climate disasters. We're suing the Trump Administration and Lee Zeldin's EPA for this illegal and reckless repeal. #ClimateCantWait
