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Ariel Wittenberg
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Public health reporter at POLITICO’s E&E News. New Englander at heart. Mom. Hobbyist watercolorist. PEN Guild forever ✊🏼
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Today, EPA Admin Lee Zeldin writes in FOX that he's going to only follow 'minimum requirements' for public participation in AI-related permits

www.foxnews.com/opinion/lee-...
July 17, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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CDC published a study on the lead in applesauce case that "highlights the importance of coordination" among state/federal lead experts less than a month after all of CDC's lead experts were laid off.

www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
Screenshot of text that says: "This investigation highlights the importance of coordination among CDC, FDA, and state public health partners in responding to a large-scale foodborne outbreak, leading to the recall of a nationally distributed lead- and chromium-contaminated food product marketed primarily to young children."
April 29, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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I wrote about Fluoride and the first Trump EPA five years ago and, man, it’s a hoot to be rereading it now

www.eenews.net/articles/epa...
Screenshot of article text that says: “That includes Dr. Dimitri Christakis, editor in chief of the scientific journal JAMA Pediatrics. "We, as pediatricians, have long viewed anti-fluoride people as the original anti-vaxxers," he said. "Like, without any legitimate information, they are spouting off that fluoride is a bad thing." But scientific evidence showing harm from fluoridated drinking water has been growing. In 2006, the National Research Council said there was enough convincing evidence of fluoridated water’s neurotoxic effects in animal studies that EPA should revisit its standards, set 20 years earlier.”
April 8, 2025 at 1:25 PM