This week's podcast: journalist Brian Deer, author of The Doctor Who Fooled the World. We discuss his investigation, why misinformation remains prevalent today & the incredible scope of disarray and dysfunction playing in public health under RFK Jr. @briandeer.com

This week on the podcast: Errol Schweizer, one of the sharpest minds in food + grocery. Former Whole Foods V.P., Forbes writer and author of The Checkout Grocery Update on Substack, he unpacks the politics shaping our food system. @grocerynerd.bsky.social

Excited to share this week’s episode with Lo Bosworth — author, founder & CEO of Love Wellness. We dive into self-care, functional medicine and why self-advocacy in women’s health matters. A powerful conversation for anyone navigating their own health journey or supporting a loved one.

You know the iconic Dr. Bronner’s bottles — but the company is so much more. I’m joined by Lisa Bronner to talk about family legacy, advocacy & her book, Soap & Soul.

By exposing the corruption of California’s investor-owned utilities, we will hold them and our government accountable.

EWG has a long and proud history of taking on big oil, big pesticide companies, big polluters, and more.

EWG scientists work to identify potential health harms from chemical exposure in everyday products so that consumers can make safer choices—and to debunk the myth that “the dose makes the poison.” Dr. Bruce Lanphear and I discuss why even low-level exposures can be harmful. @blanphear.bsky.social

‪This week’s podcast: I talk with Will Westmoreland (@westmoreland-pops.bsky.social) -- farmer, activist & founder of The Back Forty -- about what rural America is really facing: harmful policies, lost SNAP & Medicaid access and farm subsidies favoring big ag over small farmers.

Since January, the Trump admin has waged a campaign to eliminate thousands of federal scientists who help with research and rules that protect us from harmful substances. Dr. Micah Niemeier-Walsh, an industrial hygienist at N.I.O.S.H., cautions this will have serious consequences for public health.

This week’s podcast episode is driven by what's happening to science under the Trump administration. I talk with Dr. Linda Birnbaum & Dr. Micah Niemeier-Walsh about how scientists are losing their jobs — and why that puts us all at risk.

“Pesticide applicators and farmworkers in the fields … pay the highest price in this flawed system,” said Alexis Luckey of Toxic Free NC.

A new study finds that cancer risk doubles for pesticide applicators who use carbaryl.

@toxicfreefuture.bsky.social‬
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Syngenta settled just weeks before the first US #paraquat trial was set to begin.

The weedkiller is accused of causing Parkinson’s, but many plaintiffs are dying before their day in court.

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Big news: Our investigation #PoisonPR just won the Environmental Reporting prize from @oneworldmedia.bsky.social.

Thanks to our lead partner @lighthousereports.com and to all who helped uncover the hidden forces shaping our food system.
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Bayer has settled 114K+ lawsuits from people who allege they developed non-Hodgkin lymphoma after using glyphosate-based herbicides like Roundup. But the legal battles aren’t over. Journalist @careygillam.bsky.social, editor-in-chief of @thenewlede.bsky.social, breaks down the latest developments.

Please #MAHA Moms, I just know you'll rise up. You're obligated. Because if you followed Kennedy's campaign pleas and voted for Trump, you own this. All of it.

Or might Vitamin A and Ivermectin ward off the asthma and pediatric cancers that will result if polluters successfully email Trump to gain mass exemption from regulations?

#MAHA March on Washington, you say? 🧵3 To protest what has clearly become the deepest, most aggressive assault on environmental protection and health in history?

Will Kennedy address the assembled masses and condemn outrages any environmental lawyer of his experience would immediately recognize?

Like I said, 40 states: "There is a difference between scaling back the federal footprint and callously stripping food from families who rely on it for survival..it is almost unimaginable that such a decision could even be considered, let alone executed," [Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb].

Reckless budget cuts, made with no evidence they will advance efficiency or curb 'waste and corruption', have hurt farmers, rural food banks and schools in some 40 states. Where are you, #MAHA moms? www.cnn.com/2025/03/30/b...

See national impact of federal health research cuts scienceimpacts.org

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If this is really about greater efficiency, where's the analysis showing exactly how that would be achieved by these cuts? If your kids tried to pull off a scam like this in school you'd be sitting with them in the principal's office every afternoon.