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Toxins, tech and tumors: Is modern life fueling the rise of cancer in millennials?

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Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment @ucsf-prhe.bsky.social · 15d

PRHE's research is helping to uncover one reason behind rising cancer rates in younger adults. #microplastics

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Studies suggest modern life may be fueling the rise of cancer in younger adults, with factors like ultra-processed foods and chemicals under scrutiny.

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New report shows where cancer-causing chemicals are polluting water for over 200 million Americans

Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment @ucsf-prhe.bsky.social · 20d

Important work from #EWG that demonstrates we need to do more to ensure our drinking water supply is safe.
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More than 200 million people are at risk of drinking tap water contaminated with chemicals that cause cancer, liver damage, birth defects and other

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Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment @ucsf-prhe.bsky.social · 21d

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

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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.

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Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment @ucsf-prhe.bsky.social · 22d

“It feels like nothing short of a further assault on our communities,” said Loreen Hackett, who lives in Hoosick Falls, N.Y., where PFAS and other chemicals released by a plastics plant created a Superfund site.

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EPA Effort to Roll Back PFAS Limits Decried as Assault on Health

People living in neighborhoods contaminated by PFAS say they feel betrayed by the Trump administration’s attempt to eliminate Biden-era drinking water limits for four types of the “forever chemicals.”

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MAHA plan fails to recommend real solutions to rising chronic disease

Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment @ucsf-prhe.bsky.social · 28d

The most important take away from the new #MAHA report? All talk and no action. #softonpesticides #softontoxics

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The new MAHA action plan provides evidence that industry stepped in and said, ‘not while we are in charge.’ What’s telling is not only what’s in the report, but what has been removed from the report, ...

6 Takeaways From Kennedy’s Childhood Health Report

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Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment @ucsf-prhe.bsky.social · 28d

“It’s almost like a slap in the face of the people from the #MAHA movement who legitimately care about pesticide exposures and how that impacts their kids,” said Tracey Woodruff

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Opinion | The Clue to Unlocking Parkinson’s May Be All Around Us

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Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment @ucsf-prhe.bsky.social · Sep 8

"Researchers and regulators dispute the degree to which pesticides bear responsibility, and the Environmental Protection Agency continues to allow paraquat to be used in the United States — even as dozens of other countries have banned it."

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An Industry Insider’s Changes at the E.P.A. Could Cost Taxpayers Billions

Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment @ucsf-prhe.bsky.social · Aug 29

“If they overturn this, it would leave the public responsible for cleaning up, not the companies that knowingly polluted the land.” @traceywoodruff.bsky.social

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Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment @ucsf-prhe.bsky.social · Aug 27

Science Associate Emily Lasher, MSPH will be presenting for International Society of Exposure Science on some of her terrific work with PRHE. We hope you will join us for the webinar on September 17th at 11am ET!

Register at: lnkd.in/g2S-5m7E

EPA delay threatens fenceline communities near steel and coke plants, report warns

Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment @ucsf-prhe.bsky.social · Aug 25

The report found "that most of the plants — 17 out of 20 — have failed to comply with provisions of the Clean Air Act for at least one quarter in the past three years. And half of the plants were out of compliance for all three years."

By Brian Bienkowski Steel and coke plants in the US are regularly releasing illegal amounts of air pollutants and the Trump administration’s delay on stricter rules at these plants leaves fenceline ...

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Opinion | President Trump Wants to Undo EPA's Ability to Protect Our Climate and Air

Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment @ucsf-prhe.bsky.social · Aug 21

"Healthcare professionals should be alarmed by this reckless proposal to place financial considerations above the interests of our patients, communities, and future generations." #EPA #EndangermentFinding

Speak up to protect the endangerment finding

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From Landfills and Recycling Programs to Desks in Offices, Toxic Chemicals in Plastics Poison Workers - Inside Climate News

Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment @ucsf-prhe.bsky.social · Aug 18

The plastics and fossil fuel industries succeeded in stopping a global plastics treaty to protect people from the avalanche of plastic and the toxic chemicals that make it. Do they think they are safe from plastic-related health harms?

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The plastics contaminating every corner of the Earth contain thousands of unregulated toxic chemicals. As global plastic talks end without a treaty, health experts say negotiators must consider their ...

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How to improve the monitoring of chemical contaminants in the human body

Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment @ucsf-prhe.bsky.social · Aug 14

Scientists are creating new and better methods to identify toxic chemicals in people and figure out how they are impacting our health.

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We are exposed to countless chemicals every day, some of which can harm our health. Measuring the effects of this pollution is a major challenge.

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PRHE at ISEE 2025: The newest science on how toxic chemicals impact pregnancy and child health

Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment @ucsf-prhe.bsky.social · Aug 13

Want to learn about the latest science on how toxic chemicals including pesticides, chemicals in plastics, clothing, and ones you've never heard of impact pregnancy and children's health? Check out our latest blog and join PRHE at ISEE.

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A team of PRHE scientists will share their latest research on how plastic-related chemicals, pesticides, and chemicals in antimicrobials and clothing are affecting pregnancy and child development. Wha...

New study highlights ‘grave, growing’ danger of plastic pollution to world’s health

Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment @ucsf-prhe.bsky.social · Aug 11

Dr. Tracey Woodruff speaks to the rising health harms from plastic and microplastics. It's urgent that health be prioritized over the plastic and fossil fuel industries in the new global plastic treaty.

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In Geneva, negotiators from 175 nations are trying to hammer out the first-ever legally binding treaty on plastic pollution. The urgency of the talks was underscored this week by a new study published...

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Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment @ucsf-prhe.bsky.social · Aug 7

Rising sea levels are raising risks of spreading hazardous chemicals in residential neighborhoods. And that puts people's health in jeopardy. Learn what we can be done to prevent these crises.

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Rising waters and rising risks in Richmond

Main takeaways: Sea level rise is raising risks of harmful chemical exposures in shoreline communities like Richmond, CA These risks are falling disproportionately on communities already hard hit by c...

Chemical pollution is a rampant threat to humanity, science group warns

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Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment @ucsf-prhe.bsky.social · Aug 7

"The report also highlights critical shortcomings in current toxicity assessment, research and testing methods, exposing the ways in which existing checks and balances are failing to protect human and planetary health."

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More than 100 million “novel entity” compounds are in circulation, with unknown health impacts.

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Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment @ucsf-prhe.bsky.social · Aug 5

EPA science has helped to protect people from asbestos, PFAS, and TCE. EPA scientists work to clean up chemical spills, hurricane disasters, and even anthrax terror attacks. The only ones who benefit from dismantling EPA's science are polluters.

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EPA research cuts stoke fears over scientific independence

“This is a very baffling moment in time,” said one researcher. “I never would have thought we had to advocate for science.”

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Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment @ucsf-prhe.bsky.social · Jul 31

"Under an obscure section of the Clean Air Act, the president can temporarily exempt industrial facilities from new rules if their continued operation is in the interest of national security..."

These Companies Avoided Clean-Air Rules. It Took a Single Email.

Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment @ucsf-prhe.bsky.social · Jul 23

How does a microplastics researcher avoid microplastics? Important tips from Dr. Tracey Woodruff.

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