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We have a vision of a just, healthy, and democratic society where public health policies are built on unbiased science, free of industry influence. Find us at: https://prhe.ucsf.edu/center-end-corporate-harm

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Merkley probes ‘chemical industry insiders’ at EPA The Oregon Democratic senator wants answers on the “great hypocrisy" between industry influence and anti-corporate MAHA goals.

Exposing industry conflict of interest is essential to addressing the problem. We applaud these efforts. EPA should work on behalf of public health, not chemical industry CEOs.

www.eenews.net/articles/jef...

06.03.2026 18:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Syngenta says it will stop making paraquat - a pesticide linked to Parkinson's disease Syngenta, maker of a controversial pesticide linked to Parkinson’s disease, said on Tuesday that it will stop making its paraquat weed killer by the end of June.

This is good news. Two points we want to highlight from the article:

1. A lawsuit was a driver in this decision and

2. Nathan Donley says generic manufacturers may continue to sell this toxic pesticide, so a ban is important.

www.thenewlede.org/2026/03/syng...

04.03.2026 19:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Are you watching today's Senate EPW Committee hearing on the draft bill to gut America's chemical safety law? Industry influence is alive and well.

04.03.2026 16:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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Health advocates clash with chemical industry as Congress proposes TSCA changes Scientists and health advocates say proposed changes to a key US chemicals safety law would upend protections for children and other vulnerable populations suffering from toxic exposures, while indust...

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...

02.03.2026 20:36 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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EPA official touts controversial TSCA reforms A top US regulatory official on Monday championed controversial chemical review reforms that critics say will support industry interests while weakening protections against toxic chemicals for the pub...

What happens when the chemical industry is in charge at EPA. People's health gets sacrificed for industry interests.

www.thenewlede.org/2026/02/epa-...

24.02.2026 19:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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How the Trump Administration’s Embrace of Oil, Gas, and Chemical Industry Interests Will Endanger Children’s Health The Trump administration’s actions to eliminate lifesaving environmental protections would allow corporate polluters to emit more toxins and chemicals, exposing more than 2 million kids to pollutants ...

When polluting industries capture regulatory agencies, people pay with their health. We must remove financial conflicts of interest from policy actions.

www.americanprogress.org/article/how-...

04.02.2026 17:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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MAHA has reshaped health policy. Now it's working on environmental rules MAHA activists who want to hold corporations accountable for harming Americans’ health have found an unlikely ally in a Republican-led Environmental Protection Agency that has traditionally supported ...

“They were very polite in the meeting. In terms of the tone, there was a lot of receptivity. However, in terms of what was said, it felt like we were interacting with a lot of industry talking points.” - Alexandra Muñoz

abcnews.go.com/Business/wir...

03.02.2026 19:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Pollution Playbook: How Industry Blocks Regulation of Toxic Chemicals - Center for International Environmental Law Discover how chemical, plastics, fossil fuel, and pesticide industries manipulate science, lobby regulators, and delay toxic chemical regulation.

Want to learn how "how industry actors manipulate science, lobby policymakers, and undermine democratic decision-making to maintain profits at the expense of human and environmental health"? Check out CIEL's new report.

www.ciel.org/reports/scie...

02.02.2026 19:14 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Republicans and Democrats agree EPA’s new chemical reviews are too slow But at a hearing on potential changes to the Toxic Substances Control Act, they disagreed on how to speed the process

See this messaging about new chemical reviews being too slow? That is industry messaging. As Dr. Woodruff testified, the majority of delays are because industry hasn't provided data or signed paperwork.

cen.acs.org/policy/legis...

27.01.2026 16:45 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

From opioids and tobacco to PFAS and ultra processed foods, internal industry documents show how health-harming corporations lie about their products to increase their profits.

To improve health, we need to remove industry influence from the regulatory process.

09.01.2026 19:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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EPA Wins Exxon Peace Prize After Deleting 'Fossil Fuels' From Climate Change Webpages Actual science still found on some pages. Don't tell!

This is brilliant.

www.wonkette.com/p/epa-wins-e...

11.12.2025 19:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Excellent reporting from Heated and a classic example of conflict of interest.

Our scientists would be happy to sit down with these chefs and share how #PFAS contaminates water and impacts health.

11.12.2025 16:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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San Francisco files 1st-of-its-kind lawsuit against largest ultraprocessed food manufacturers Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, General Mills, Kellogg, and Kraft Heinz are some of the 10 major corporations being sued by San Francisco, which is arguing they unfairly marketed ultraprocessed foods and products...

San Francisco is taking on ultra-processed food companies for "using deceptive marketing techniques to target children ... to consume their products while knowing that overconsumption of the foods could lead to poor health outcomes..." #ultraprocessedfood

abc7news.com/post/san-fra...

04.12.2025 21:05 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

"This is what corporate capture looks like." - Dimitri Abrahamsson

EPA is supposed to protect people from toxic chemicals like D4, not give them a pass.

03.12.2025 19:06 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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The Editor Got a Letter From ‘Dr. B.S.’ So Did a Lot of Other Editors.

Have you received a letter from "Dr. B.S."?

One scientist decided to investigate and what he found may shed light on another form of corporate influence.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/s...

24.11.2025 19:50 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Ultra-processed food is global health threat, experts warn It is increasing our risk of a range of chronic diseases, including obesity and depression, a major review says.

Did you know that the Tobacco Industry was behind much of the creation of ultra-processed food?

Researchers are now sounding the alarm that ultra-processed food needs warning labels.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

19.11.2025 20:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Chemical giant, climate skeptics vie for seats on EPA science panel The Science Advisory Board could influence the Trump administration's plans to revisit a host of regulations.

They are removing scientists from scientific advisory panels and polluting industries are jockeying for the positions. If you want to make America healthy, remove corporate interference from the regulatory process.

www.eenews.net/articles/che...

12.11.2025 18:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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The Cultural and Political Moment for Toxins Research A longstanding push for urgent action on environmental toxins is landing in an unprecedented time in American politics.

Scientists and health advocates are trying to address the children's health crisis despite an EPA and administration captured by industry and corporate interests. But transparency and public support can make powerful allies.

undark.org/2025/11/06/t...

10.11.2025 19:15 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Senate Subcommittee Will Hold Hearing on “Examining the Beneficial Use and Regulation of Chemicals” | JD Supra On October 23, 2025, the Environment and Public Works Chemical Safety, Waste Management, Environmental Justice, and Regulatory Oversight Subcommittee...

BREAKING: Senate hearing on impacts of chemical regulation Thursday. Note that two of the three witnesses are from industry. At least one witness will testify on behalf of science and health.

www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/se...

21.10.2025 18:02 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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US Senate poised to approve industry lobbyist to lead chemical safety at EPA If Douglas Troutman is confirmed, the top four toxics office at the environmental agency will be held by ex-lobbyists

If you want to keep people safe from harmful chemicals, one good step would be to stop the revolving door between the chemical industry and EPA.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

20.10.2025 18:51 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Art + Science No. 5: Big Oil, Regulations, Global Warming, a Calculated Stitch
with Ruth Tabancay
via Zoom on Sunday, September 21, 4:00 to 5:30 PM PST
www.eventbrite.com/e/artscience...

26.08.2025 04:43 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Fossil fuels harm health from 'cradle to grave': Report The extraction, transportation and burning of planet-heating fossil fuels have a huge impact on people's health that starts before they are born and lasts until they die, a report warned Tuesday.

"Just as governments once curbed tobacco industry influence, they must now ban fossil fuel lobbying and disinformation," Miller said.

phys.org/news/2025-09...

17.09.2025 15:01 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Pesticide politics: Inside the corporate push to limit liability - Investigate Midwest Unyielding is a University of Missouri School of Journalism project for Investigate Midwest. With billions of dollars at stake, Bayer has gone on the offensive. Billboards along major highways. A soci...

"The battle over Roundup and glyphosate, the controversial chemical it contains, is a case study in how regulation, politics and big business are intertwined in the agricultural industry."

21.08.2025 17:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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MAHA Commission Succumbs to Pesticide Industry Pressure Center for Biological Diversity: Draft Report Walks Back Administration’s Promises of Bold Action on Pesticides

Last week the plastics industry stopped the global plastics treaty and now it appears the pesticide industry is succeeding at keeping regulations at bay. We can make America healthy by removing polluter conflict of interest in the regulatory process.

biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

18.08.2025 14:56 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Study of GLP-1 guidelines for teens points to potential for influence from drugmakers More than one-third of people who helped develop the 2023 guidelines for treating children with obesity had undisclosed financial ties to obesity drugmakers, a paper finds.

Medical advice should be free of financial conflicts of interest, especially when it comes to children. Important study from @drlauraschmidt.bsky.social

www.statnews.com/2025/07/22/s...

22.07.2025 19:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Scientists urge plastics treaty negotiators to prioritize health Plastics are made of more than 16,000 chemicals, mostly derived from oil and gas. Over 4,200 are known to be hazardous, while the toxicity of the majority of the remaining is unknown. – “Negotiating t...

There is no safe way to recycle plastics that contain thousands of toxic chemicals. Plastics treaty negotiators need to push back on industry's false narrative that we can "recycle" our way out of the plastics crisis.

prheucsf.blog/2025/07/09/s...
@nickchartres.bsky.social @toxicsfree.bsky.social

09.07.2025 19:33 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
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Trump Administration, Reversing Itself, Won’t Rewrite a Ban on Asbestos

BREAKING: Trump's EPA appears to be backing down on repealing asbestos ban.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/c...

08.07.2025 17:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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E.P.A. Suspends 144 Employees After They Signed a Letter Criticizing Trump

Silencing critics is part of the polluter playbook.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/c...

07.07.2025 15:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Plastics industry pushed ‘advanced recycling’ despite knowing problems – report Producers promoted chemical recycling – processes used to break plastics into constituent molecules – but knew of limitations

"Another problem the industry does not frequently address publicly: the pollution caused by advanced recycling. Though 'the plastics industry positions advanced recycling as an environmentally friendly solution for plastic waste', the report says, processes emit toxic and planet-warming pollutants."

01.07.2025 00:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Fossil fuels are an insurance disaster What do heatwaves, mold, and plastics have in common?

"But there’s no tackling climate change and plastic pollution without addressing the underlying cause — fossil fuels."

24.06.2025 22:31 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0