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Like many other plant-based foods and products, CBD oil is one dietary supplement where "organic" labels are very important to consumers. However, there are little to no regulations within the hemp industry when it comes to deeming a product as organic, which makes it increasingly difficult for shoppers to find the best CBD oil products available on the market.
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By Taryn MacKinney
First, the bad news: An analysis by the Union of Concerned Scientists reveals that federal agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) have lost hundreds of scientists since 2017. The good news: With the Biden administration already acting on its pledge to lead with science, a new day has dawned, and it's time to get to work.
Science Under Attack
<p>Since the birth of the National Academies of Sciences <a href="http://www.nasonline.org/about-nas/history/archives/founding-and-early-work.html" target="_blank">more than 150 years ago</a>, US federal science has fueled many of the nation's and the world's great achievements. Federally funded scientists have mapped the <a href="https://www.genome.gov/human-genome-project" target="_blank">human genome,</a> <a href="https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/yes-government-researchers-really-did-invent-the-internet/" target="_blank">created the World Wide Web</a>, protected <a href="https://www.fws.gov/midwest/eagle/History/index.html" target="_blank">species from extinction</a>, and saved countless lives through revolutionary vaccine campaigns—against <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/polio/what-is-polio/polio-us.html" target="_blank">polio</a> and <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/smallpox/history/history.html" target="_blank">smallpox</a> in years past, and today, against COVID-19.</p><p>At the heart of these triumphs stand the government scientists. Whether chemist or physician, economist or engineer, each has dedicated their career to the American public and its interests: clean air and water, safe homes, a healthy future for all.</p><p>But cracks have formed in the foundations of government science. Especially since 2017, political officials have stunted or stalled <a href="https://blog.ucsusa.org/taryn-mackinney/the-white-house-scrapped-the-science-on-tricholorethylene-so-were-urging-the-epa-to-investigate" target="_blank">scientific research</a>, retaliated against <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/07/25/has-trump-sidelined-restricted-government-scientists-yes/4" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">scientists</a>, weakened <a href="https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/attacks-on-science/epa-alters-protocol-scientific-advisory-committees-selection?_ga=2.125629898.1514278020.1611251739-397048884.1590005808" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">science advisory committees</a>, left <a href="https://envirodatagov.org/embattled-landscape-series-part-2b-the-declining-capacity-of-federal-environmental-science/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">scientific positions vacant</a>, and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/science-ranks-grow-thin-in-trump-administration/2020/01/23/5d22b522-3172-11ea-a053-dc6d944ba776_story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">undermined career staff</a>. Some federal offices, battered by political attacks, have hemorrhaged scientific experts.</p><p>Now that the sun has set on the Trump administration, questions remain. How have federal scientists fared in the last four years? How many work in government today? And how can the Biden administration repair what was broken?</p>The Hunt for Numbers
<p>To answer these questions, we needed government information and lots of it. Last autumn, we requested, via the <a href="https://blog.ucsusa.org/genna-reed/a-thank-you-to-foia-officers-purveyors-of-sunshine" target="_blank">Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)</a>, two decades of staffing records from nearly 30 federal science agencies, from the FWS to the Census Bureau.</p><p>We're still waiting on a lot of data, but the results we <em>have</em> gotten are revealing. In the last four years, five of the seven agencies we analyzed collectively lost more than 1,000 scientists.</p>A Blow to Science at the EPA
<p>The losses at the EPA weren't random. Between 2016 and 2020, the EPA lost 550 environmental protection specialists — 1 in 4. These specialists implement air and water quality programs and track environmental law violations, tasks that the last administration spurned.</p>Losses Beyond the EPA
<p>Other agencies also lost experts between 2016 and 2020. The FWS lost 231 scientific staff, a nearly 4% decline. This includes a net loss of 68 wildlife biologists (about 1 in 8) and 48 staff in wildlife refuge management (about 1 in 12). The US Geological Survey, meanwhile, lost 118 hydrologists (1 in 10), 55 geologists (1 in 10), 45 wildlife biologists (1 in 4), and myriad others.</p><p>The Department of Education's research branch, the Institute of Education Services, lost 33 scientific staff—a staggering 19 percent decline. More than half were education researchers.</p><p>BOEM — a young agency with fewer than 600 employees — steadily gained scientists through the last quarter of the Obama administration, when it reached a high of 450 scientific staff. But then this number began declining, falling to 403 in Q2 2019. As with the EPA, many of BOEM's losses were highly specialized scientific staff, including 10 geologists (-10%) and 7 oceanographers (-29%).</p><p>On the flip side, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has <em>gained</em> scientific staff since 2016, continuing a trend that dates to at least 2010. NASA gained 91 scientific experts — a modest 0.7% increase. We're heartened to see this, but don't be fooled: all is not well in government science.</p>The Humans Behind the Data
<p>These numbers validate what many civil servants have long witnessed: the decline of federal science. We've tracked <a href="https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/attacks-on-science" target="_blank">nearly 190 attacks</a> on science since 2017, and stories abound of scientists being <a href="https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/attacks-on-science/climate-change-resilience-study-halted" target="_blank">ignored</a>, <a href="https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/attacks-on-science/cdc-defunded-politically-motivated-ad-campaign" target="_blank">defunded</a>, and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/25/trump-administration-climate-crisis-denying-scientist" target="_blank">pushed out</a>. In <a href="https://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/attach/2018/08/science-under-trump-report.pdf/" target="_blank">our 2018 survey</a>, majorities of scientists across agencies reported seeing workforce reductions.</p>The Path Forward
<p>Still, have hope. Already, President Biden has given the microphone back to federal scientists like <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/president-biden-takes-office/2021/01/21/959378061/after-sparring-with-trump-dr-fauci-says-biden-administration-feels-liberating" target="_blank">Dr. Anthony Fauci</a>, assembled a team of qualified <a href="https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-technology-francis-collins-022fc771e262e6f1c7e33ffe80e1d37b" target="_blank">science advisors</a>, and, in <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/20/climate/biden-paris-climate-agreement.html" target="_blank">rejoining the Paris climate agreement</a>, did what his predecessor never could: recognized the truth of climate change and vowed to work with the world to solve it.</p><p>But rebuilding is not enough. Federal science must be fortified. In the coming months, the Biden administration must do all it can to invite more early-career scientists into government—for example, by bolstering <a href="https://www.epa.gov/careers/research-fellowships-and-scholarships" target="_blank">fellowship programs</a> and expanding recruitment to underrepresented communities. The administration must also work to <em>keep </em>these vital staff, by strengthening mentorship of early-career scientists and, of course, funding them (a robust White House science and technology budget is a great start).</p><p>President Biden must also support policies that promote and protect scientists and their work. We at UCS have a <a href="https://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/2020-08/si-report-roadmap-for-science.pdf?_ga=2.102051905.1514278020.1611251739-397048884.1590005808" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>lot </em>of recommendations</a>, and we're thrilled to see many of them already in the administration's <a href="https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/01/new-biden-scientific-integrity-policy" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">latest memorandum</a> on scientific integrity.</p><p>The United States is a divided country, cleaved by <a href="https://time.com/5898231/republicans-democrats-coronavirus-news/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">rival realities</a> and <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2019/10/10/partisan-antipathy-more-intense-more-personal/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">bitter partisanship</a>. But as our leaders brace themselves for the rocky seas ahead, science must be their lighthouse. We implore the Biden administration, and all those elected by the people, to "<a href="https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-technology-francis-collins-022fc771e262e6f1c7e33ffe80e1d37b" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">lead with science and truth</a>." The nation depends on it.</p><p><em>Taryn MacKinney is an investigative researcher for the Center for Science and Democracy at the Union of Concerned Scientists.</em></p><p><em>Reposted with permission from the <a href="https://blog.ucsusa.org/taryn-mackinney/federal-agencies-have-lost-hundreds-of-scientists-since-2017-what-comes-next" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Union of Concerned Scientists</a>.</em></p>Trending
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EPA’s ‘Secret Science’ Rule Will Make It Harder for the Agency to Protect Public Health
By Gabriel Filippelli
The Trump administration has worked to weaken U.S. environmental regulations in many areas, from water and air pollution to energy development and land conservation. One of its most controversial actions is known as the "secret science" rule because it would require scientists to disclose all of their raw data, including confidential medical records, for their findings to be considered in shaping regulations. This measure has just been finalized.
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Using Child Health Records to Map Lead Exposure
<p>My work is made possible because researchers can obtain confidential patient records, under strict regulations and oversight to ensure their confidentiality throughout analysis. These controls are mandated under <a href="https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-individuals/guidance-materials-for-consumers/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">federal regulations</a> that were rightly instituted to protect people's identities and health data pursuant to the 1996 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA.</p><p>I started researching lead exposure hot spots in U.S. cities almost 15 years ago, well before thousands of kids were poisoned by lead in Flint. Pediatric exposure to lead results in permanent neurological effects – namely, reduced IQ and deficits in attention, learning and memory compared with nonintoxicated peers. These impacts <a href="https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/lead-poisoning-and-health" target="_blank">are permanent</a>, so it is critical to identify and eliminate lead exposure sources before children are poisoned.</p><p>Because I did not have the resources to obtain and analyze millions of samples of soil, dust and water for lead, I turned to medical records. Children around the country have routine blood tests, and many of them include an assay for blood lead levels. I realized that if I could obtain those records, as well as each child's age, test date and home address, I could map out the distribution of lead poisoning.</p><p>In an ideal world public health experts wouldn't use maps based on kids who have already been permanently poisoned to find exposure sources. Nevertheless, 16,000 medical records later, I was able to produce a detailed block-by-block map of <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s10653-012-9474-y" target="_blank">blood levels in children</a> in Indianapolis.</p>Blood lead levels of children in Indianapolis, Indiana, for the period February 2002 to December 2008 (n = 12,431) for children between ages 0 and 5.99 years (area = 1,044 km2). Filippelli et al, 2012., CC BY
Pinpointing Exposure Sources and Timing
<p>This approach led me and my colleagues to two major discoveries that have improved communities and shaped policy at the local and national levels. Neither of these insights could be used to implement solutions under the proposed secret science rule.</p><p>First, we found that the pediatric lead poisoning distribution patterns we identified from medical records <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s10653-012-9474-y" target="_blank">matched a rudimentary map</a> of patterns of legacy lead contamination – lead emitted over decades by sources such as leaded gasoline, lead-based paint and industrial emissions – that we constructed from separate research work on <a href="https://www.mapmyenvironment.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">urban soil and dust</a>. This indicated that at least in Indianapolis, soil and contaminated dust generated from it was likely the major exposure mechanism for lead in children.</p><p>We were able to leverage that finding in some particularly contaminated neighborhoods where the EPA had previously carried out cleanups. Indeed, our work spurred the agency to reanalyze one of these poorly mitigated neighborhoods and reopen the cleanup over a <a href="https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-completes-cleanup-100-properties-american-lead-site-indianapolis-soil-sampling" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">much broader target area</a>.</p><span style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="a37a039636226eb137004af7c191fdbc"><iframe lazy-loadable="true" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ATNvg9RXzFE?rel=0" width="100%" height="auto" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;"></iframe></span>
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