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A new study has found a stronger link between PFAS blood levels and high blood-pressure in a cohort of middle-aged women. The long-term study looked at initial PFAS levels in a group of over a thousand women ranging in age from 42 to 52 years old, comprised of various ethnic backgrounds.
Alex Cardenas, J.B. Hamby, Jim Hanks, Javier Gonzalez, and Norma Sierra Galindo are the elected directors of the Imperial Irrigation District, which provides water to the desert farm fields of California’s Imperial Valley. They control 3.1 million acre-feet of Colorado River water — roughly one-fifth of all the Colorado River water rights in the U.S.
"Just imagine for once if we led the world in funding peace and not wars."
Funding peace, creating peace—this is deeply complex, and too many Americans, certainly too many of those in leadership positions, don't have time for complexity.
Environmentalists praised "baby steps" to address PFAS but say legally binding standards are urgently needed so "everyone can have confidence that their drinking water is safe."
"This is a step in the right direction," said Stel Bailey, co-facilitator of the National PFAS Contamination Coalition, welcoming that the EPA finally "had the courage to follow the science, something we've been demanding for years."
The Health and Location Data Protection Act will ban brokers from selling Americans' location and health data, rein in giant data brokers, and set some long overdue rules of the road forth is $200 billion industry. The bill defines data brokers as any person or entity "that collects, buys, licenses, or infers data about individuals and then sells, licenses, or trades that data."
Ever since the archaic divergence of humanity from other hominids, our systems of tools and symbols have developed at an accelerating pace. We depend less and less on the physical capacities of our bodies. We operate more and more in the realm of information: data, words, numbers, and bits.
Scientists have been raising growing concerns for decades over the use of toxic “forever chemicals,” so called because their strong molecular bonds can take hundreds of years to completely break down in the environment. Widely used in consumer products such as cookware and clothing, these substances are turning up everywhere from drinking water to our bloodstream. And now researchers are warning of yet another—and so far underrecognized—source of these troubling toxins: common pesticides.
Hoping to fend off concerns about eating ‘gene-edited’ food, the British government claims the process it plans to legalise is different to GM — or genetic modification. With supporters claiming it will be good for planet, people, and pockets, Westminster insists “editing” genes is safe and, unlike GM, won’t share genetic material across species.
The following is a transcript of the special interview, The Bodies of Others: An Assault of Our Liberties by the Technocrats, with Naomi Wolf by Dr. Joseph Mercola.
Since March 2020, school nutrition directors have been able to adapt their meal programs to meet the ongoing pandemic-driven challenges of getting healthy meals to the nearly 30 million children who depend on them. But none of it would have been possible without USDA waivers that were authorized by Congress—and those are now set to expire on June 30.
