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Lettuce Recall Is a Wake Up Call for Food Safety

Lettuce Recall Is a Wake Up Call for Food Safety

By Erik D. Olson and Lena Brook We live in partisan times, as anyone who had to sit through Thanksgiving dinner with distant relatives can probably attest. But even your crazy uncle would agree that the safety of our food shouldn’t be a partisan issue. No one wants their child to get sick from eating […]

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    5 Ways Trump Is ‘Gaslighting’ Us on U.S. Air Pollution Levels

    5 Ways Trump Is ‘Gaslighting’ Us on U.S. Air Pollution Levels

    As he’s wont to do, President Donald Trump on Monday tweeted a World Health Organization (WHO) map of particulate pollution and said that the U.S. has the “cleanest air in the world – BY FAR!” Trump’s tweet “shows how maps can be used to misrepresent facts and conclusions,” as John Walke, director of a clean […]

    Trump EPA Takes Credit For Obama-Era CO2 Reductions

    Trump EPA Takes Credit For Obama-Era CO2 Reductions

    Total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions decreased by 2.7 percent between 2016 and 2017, according to a report released by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released on Wednesday. Andrew Wheeler, the acting administrator of the EPA, touted that the report shows that regulations are unnecessary to slash carbon emissions. “Thanks to President Trump’s regulatory reform […]

    FDA Bans 7 Cancer-Causing Food Additives Found in Popular Foods

    FDA Bans 7 Cancer-Causing Food Additives Found in Popular Foods

    Under pressure from the Environmental Working Group (EWG) and other environmental and public health groups, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has banned seven substances used in artificial flavors that have been linked to cancer in animals. “Chemicals that could cause cancer should never have been allowed in our food in the first place, especially […]