alt Environmental Health
@alt-enviro-health.bsky.social
Speaking up for environmental health specialists and the communities we serve. NCEH, NIEHS, ATSDR, with a sprinkle of NIOSH. Climate change is real. Environmental justice is not "woke". Gun safety NOW!
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I'm rebranding! The reorg to AHA will take years, so I'll focus on the subjects & fellow nerds I know best in environmental health, toxicology, EJ, occupational medicine & such. Dunno if I'm going to verify, but please share with me your news & views related to NCEH, NIEHS, ATSDR, & NIOSH 😘
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climate change is real
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 10:53 PM
climate change is real
mind your business weirdo
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 8, 2025 at 9:26 PM
mind your business weirdo
The least surprising news of the day
It appears that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has, within the past week, scrubbed a large amount of climate change content from its official website, as well as *removed human-caused warming* from the discussion on its "causes of climate change" page.
December 8, 2025 at 7:56 PM
The least surprising news of the day
climate change is real
Politicians and TV hosts can deny climate change all they want but insurance companies know it's real
December 8, 2025 at 2:47 PM
climate change is real
climate change is real
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 10:53 PM
climate change is real
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How high does someone have to be to read a book by Cheryl Hines
He must be reading a part where Cheryl said he is a faithful and devoted husband.
December 7, 2025 at 8:48 PM
How high does someone have to be to read a book by Cheryl Hines
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Dismantling a long standing public health rule, without any scientific rationale. Playing with people’s lives for pure vindictive politics. A new low for the USA. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
In major attack on public health, CDC recommends delaying Hepatitis B vaccine at birth
What is being implemented under the guise of “health freedom” is, in fact, the demolition of the very institutions and structures that have protected millions from infectious disease.
www.wsws.org
December 6, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Dismantling a long standing public health rule, without any scientific rationale. Playing with people’s lives for pure vindictive politics. A new low for the USA. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Petty bigots. The bullies from 7th grade. That's who's running this country.
HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered.
www.npr.org
December 5, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Petty bigots. The bullies from 7th grade. That's who's running this country.
love this journey for her
December 5, 2025 at 8:22 PM
love this journey for her
*crying*
#giftlink
RFK Jr.’s relentless quest to make sure more kids don’t survive to see adulthood.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
RFK Jr.’s relentless quest to make sure more kids don’t survive to see adulthood.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
Kennedy’s Methodical 2-Decade Quest to Dismantle Vaccine Policy
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
*crying*
One of many hack "journalists" who helped get us in this mess
Reading Helen Lewis's review of Nuzzi's bathetic book it struck me: the true scandal ain't that she slept w. RFK Jr. or pretended to be a journalist while being a political actor & all that.
It's all the other political reporters who told us that Nuzzi was a superlative practitioner of their craft.
It's all the other political reporters who told us that Nuzzi was a superlative practitioner of their craft.
Olivia Nuzzi’s Tell-Nothing Memoir
Can “American Canto” turn scandal into literature?
www.theatlantic.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:23 PM
One of many hack "journalists" who helped get us in this mess
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Man fck her and her tears, she did her part propping up the patriarchy, white supremacy and the mediocre men who ascend to ruin lives under the cover of it. She can be scrutinized and held accountable.
December 3, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Man fck her and her tears, she did her part propping up the patriarchy, white supremacy and the mediocre men who ascend to ruin lives under the cover of it. She can be scrutinized and held accountable.
our nepo baby boss putting the President to sleep today
December 3, 2025 at 1:49 AM
our nepo baby boss putting the President to sleep today
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"A Stanford-led study finds switching from a gas to electric stove would cut nitrogen dioxide exposure across the U.S. by over one half, reducing the risk of asthma."
#Induction #Electrify #GasStoves #Asthma #IndoorAir #PublicHealth
woods.stanford.edu/news/air-ins...
#Induction #Electrify #GasStoves #Asthma #IndoorAir #PublicHealth
woods.stanford.edu/news/air-ins...
Is the air inside your home more dangerous than the air outside it?
Gas and propane stoves emit substantial amounts of nitrogen dioxide, a pollutant linked to higher risks of asthma, heart and lung disease, and other conditions. A Stanford-led study finds switching fr...
woods.stanford.edu
December 2, 2025 at 6:41 PM
"A Stanford-led study finds switching from a gas to electric stove would cut nitrogen dioxide exposure across the U.S. by over one half, reducing the risk of asthma."
#Induction #Electrify #GasStoves #Asthma #IndoorAir #PublicHealth
woods.stanford.edu/news/air-ins...
#Induction #Electrify #GasStoves #Asthma #IndoorAir #PublicHealth
woods.stanford.edu/news/air-ins...
government is so boringgggg
December 2, 2025 at 6:34 PM
government is so boringgggg
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I can't scream loudly enough that the people leading HHS right now are liars. RFK Jr. Marty Makary. Vinay Prasad. They are liars. And the lies they are telling are the lies eugenicists like themselves tell.
NEW: The F.D.A. announced in an internal memo that 10 children died "because of" the Covid shot. Other experts want to see proof.
“This is a profound revelation,” Dr. Prasad's memo said. “For the first time, the U.S. F.D.A. will acknowledge that Covid-19 vaccines have killed American children.”
“This is a profound revelation,” Dr. Prasad's memo said. “For the first time, the U.S. F.D.A. will acknowledge that Covid-19 vaccines have killed American children.”
F.D.A. Attributes 10 Children’s Deaths to Covid Vaccines
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:32 PM
I can't scream loudly enough that the people leading HHS right now are liars. RFK Jr. Marty Makary. Vinay Prasad. They are liars. And the lies they are telling are the lies eugenicists like themselves tell.
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I am a little tired of being yelled at for this but apparently not tired about: heroin addiction is not RFK’s problem. He’s a sociopath. Most addicts aren’t. Honestly, walk into an NA meeting, grab the first person with a few years to be head of HHS and they’d probably do a better job than Bobby.
This is what happens when you put a privileged, 14 year heroin addict in charge of health. Duh
November 27, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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Current Admin doesn't want people to know..
November 25, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Current Admin doesn't want people to know..
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Trump Delays His Health Care Plan After Revolt From Republicans.
Republican members of Congress are pissed about the health care plan Donald Trump came up with.
newrepublic.com/post/203622/...
Republican members of Congress are pissed about the health care plan Donald Trump came up with.
newrepublic.com/post/203622/...
Trump Delays His Health Care Plan After Revolt From Republicans
Republican members of Congress are pissed about the health care plan Donald Trump came up with.
newrepublic.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Climate change is real. Extreme heat kills
Texas workers are dying from heat, but business leaders and Republicans support a ban on local protections, because too many different laws will confuse businesses.
But they oppose a national OSHA standard as well.
Maybe they just don't care?
insideclimatenews.org/news/2411202...
But they oppose a national OSHA standard as well.
Maybe they just don't care?
insideclimatenews.org/news/2411202...
Texas Workers Keep Dying in the Heat - Inside Climate News
Despite its blazing temperatures, Texas has no labor protections for heat. That leaves workers, especially immigrants, vulnerable on the job.
insideclimatenews.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Climate change is real. Extreme heat kills
Thank you Cardi B
November 24, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Thank you Cardi B
Some of you are following this account that was harassing people today for remembering victims of the Soviet famine genocide in Ukraine
Report & block:
@ herbertsco.bsky.social
Report & block:
@ herbertsco.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Some of you are following this account that was harassing people today for remembering victims of the Soviet famine genocide in Ukraine
Report & block:
@ herbertsco.bsky.social
Report & block:
@ herbertsco.bsky.social
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DOGE did not fail in any way to accomplish its goals.
Its goals were never efficiency or saving money.
Its goals were to destroy as much of government as possible forever, and to steal data for the Space Nazi.
DOGE is fading away like bank robbery gangs fade away after the robberies are done.
Its goals were never efficiency or saving money.
Its goals were to destroy as much of government as possible forever, and to steal data for the Space Nazi.
DOGE is fading away like bank robbery gangs fade away after the robberies are done.
Exclusive: DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter reut.rs/4abeTdx
November 23, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Good update
Medical racism is a scourge
Medical racism is a scourge
A few days ago I shared a video of Mercedes Wells, a black woman in labour who had been kicked out of the hospital & gave birth roadside.
The doctor and nurse who kicked her out have been fired.
Black women have the highest maternal mortality in the country, and misogynoir plays a big role.
The doctor and nurse who kicked her out have been fired.
Black women have the highest maternal mortality in the country, and misogynoir plays a big role.
November 23, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Good update
Medical racism is a scourge
Medical racism is a scourge
I cannot wait for these jerks to face charges
'Suddenly exposed' DOGE employees fear prosecution after Musk abandoned them: report
www.rawstory.com/doge-employe...
www.rawstory.com/doge-employe...
'Suddenly exposed' DOGE employees fear prosecution after Musk abandoned them: report
Current and former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers are growing increasingly concerned that the work they did slashing government programs and eliminating jobs will come back to hau...
www.rawstory.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I cannot wait for these jerks to face charges