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Tracey Woodruff
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Professor - Scientist - Environment Chemicals & Health - Science & Policy @UCSF Director @UCSF_PRHE and @UCSF_EaRTH Center
I read between the lines so you don't have to

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Tracey Woodruff @traceywoodruff.bsky.social · 18h
Want to see the result of a 30 year campaign? Industry gets its wish to undermine risk assessment and formaldehyde

www.propublica.org/article/epa-...
Under Former Chemical Industry Insiders, Trump EPA Nearly Doubles Amount of Formaldehyde Considered Safe to Inhale
Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or...
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Tracey Woodruff @traceywoodruff.bsky.social · 3d
👇Webinar on how financial conflicts of interest and corporations influence the decision making process

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Healthy Environment and Endocrine Disruptor Strategies (HEEDS) @heeds.bsky.social · 3d
webinar Thurs. Dec. 11:
Corporate influence on science in a shifting political landscape

www.healthandenvironment.org/che-webinars...
Corporate influence on science in a shifting political landscape
Extensive empirical research demonstrates that financial conflicts of interest (study sponsorship and study authors with a financial conflict of interest from industries that have a stake in the...
www.healthandenvironment.org

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Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment @ucsf-prhe.bsky.social · 3d
The chemical lobby has been spending millions of dollars to change the Toxic Substances Control Act. That's the main law that works to protect people from harmful chemicals.

What does industry want? They want less oversight and less concern for your health. #badidea

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 4d
The White House has launched a webpage to report "media bias" tips. It would be a pity if it were flooded with tips about every show on Fox News.
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
A CALL TO ACTION: Submit “Media Bias” Tips
The White House recently launched a Media Bias Portal as a service to truth and transparency. Its purpose is to combat the baseless lies,
www.whitehouse.gov

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Dimitri Abrahamsson @dimiabrams.bsky.social · 6d
At EPA’s D4 meeting today:
- Most reviewers industry affiliated
- Most EPA scientists in sync with industry
- EU, UK, Canada: “D4 very persistent and very bioaccumulatative”
- EPA: “maybe persistent but not bioaccumulative”
This is what corporate capture looks like
www.youtube.com/live/eTZ9rjV...
Day 1 12/02 - Peer Review of the Draft Risk Evaluation for Octamethylcyclotetrasiloxane (D4)
YouTube video by uvideoonline
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Tracey Woodruff @traceywoodruff.bsky.social · 13d
Another Making America Sick Again action by the Trump administration.

Going to court on behalf of the industry to get rid of the new air pollution standards that protect people from getting sick and dying.

insideepa.com/daily-news/e...
EPA Asks D.C. Circuit To Vacate Biden-Era PM2.5 NAAQS As Unlawful | InsideEPA.com
EPA is asking the D.C. Circuit to vacate the Biden EPA’s tougher fine particulate (PM2.5) federal air standard, seeking to convince some judges that the rule is unlawful after they declined to support...
insideepa.com

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Tracey Woodruff @traceywoodruff.bsky.social · Aug 8
this was a great article - and made me rethink the term and what we are doing today to protect workers from being mauled by capitalism
newyorker.com The New Yorker @newyorker.com · Aug 8
Today, the word “Luddite” is used as an insult to anyone resistant to technological innovation. But a recent book argues that Luddism stood not against technology per se but for the rights of workers in the face of automation.
Rethinking the Luddites in the Age of A.I.
Brian Merchant’s new book, “Blood in the Machine,” argues that Luddism stood not against technology per se but for the rights of workers in the face of automation.
www.newyorker.com

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · Aug 8
Today, the word “Luddite” is used as an insult to anyone resistant to technological innovation. But a recent book argues that Luddism stood not against technology per se but for the rights of workers in the face of automation.
Rethinking the Luddites in the Age of A.I.
Brian Merchant’s new book, “Blood in the Machine,” argues that Luddism stood not against technology per se but for the rights of workers in the face of automation.
www.newyorker.com

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The Examination @theexamination.org · Aug 4
In the World of Pain project, we found that German drugmaker Grünenthal promotes its opioids through misleading tactics including funding doctors, studies, patient groups and pain associations. 💊👇

www.theexamination.org/articles/fou...
Four ways Grünenthal spreads misleading claims about opioids around the world
To promote its painkillers, the drugmaker doles out funding for studies, doctors, patients groups, pain associations and more.
www.theexamination.org

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UW DEOHS @uwdeohs.bsky.social · Feb 28
Fascinating talk today by Interim Chair and @uwbiostat.bsky.social Prof Lianne Sheppard about the behind-the-scenes work of proposing a new & more protective air quality standard for soot. She chaired the EPA's Clean Air Sci Advisory Cmte for three years. #CleanAirAct
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