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CDC cuts environmental health employees
Energy & Environment Energy & Environment   The Big Story Staff who worked on lead, asthma let go from CDC Staff members who fought childhood lead exposure and those ...
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Disrupted systems: How EPA cuts are shaking up community health and climate research
Canceled grants and shifting federal priorities are halting progress — and prompting a legal fight to protect climate initiatives and health.
Trump is cutting the nation’s environmental programs. Here are the health risks to Americans
The president's environmental actions will significantly increase the cost of living for millions of people and bring about ...
Kennedy pledges to figure out which ‘environmental toxins’ are causing autism
Kennedy Jr. used newly released autism figures to insist the nation is facing a crisis and promised to ferret out the ...
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Mayor Johnson pushes environmental equity law after feds allege racist policies
An ordinance is expected to be introduced Wednesday. City Hall promised President Joe Biden’s administration that it would ...
RFK Jr.'s cuts to CDC lead poisoning team bring efforts to help tribes, health departments to a standstill
Cuts to the CDC's branch responsible for investigating and preventing lead poisoning has brought multiple efforts to help ...
NIH Ends Future Funding to Study the Health Effects of Climate Change
It’s unclear whether the guidance will impact active grants, but it appears to halt opportunities for future studies. One ...
Kennedy promises exhaustive studies to identify any environmental factors that may cause autism
Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. warned that children in the U.S. are being diagnosed with autism at an “alarming rate,” promising on Wednesday to conduct exhaustive studies to identify any ...