# 🧪Vital Signs: Environmental & Health Trends

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## [AIPAC’s Money Still Finds Its Candidates](https://mindimessmer.substack.com/p/aipacs-money-still-finds-its-candidates)

_2026-08-17 · Mindi Messmer, DMSc, MS, PG,CG_

Follow the Money Part 2: Tracing a Committee Called Better Blue Fund

## [Fifty Years After Lafayette Terrace Residents First Complained, Coakley Dump Is Finally Getting the Pump and Treat System It Was Always Supposed to Have](https://mindimessmer.substack.com/p/fifty-years-after-lafayette-terrace)

_2026-08-14 · Mindi Messmer, DMSc, MS, PG,CG_

Key Takeaways

## [Follow the Money](https://mindimessmer.substack.com/p/follow-the-money)

_2026-08-11 · Mindi Messmer, DMSc, MS, PG,CG_

NH-01's Path to the September 8th Primary

## [When the Sky Turns Yellow, and the Water Makes You Sick: This Is What Happens When Public Health Is Under Attack](https://mindimessmer.substack.com/p/when-the-sky-turns-yellow-and-the)

_2026-07-14 · Mindi Messmer, DMSc, MS, PG,CG_

Key Takeaways

## [The Merrimack Was Not an Accident. Neither Is Any of This.](https://mindimessmer.substack.com/p/the-merrimack-was-not-an-accident)

_2026-07-12 · Mindi Messmer, DMSc, MS, PG,CG_

This essay expands on my op-ed published today, Sunday, July 12, 2026, in Seacoast Online.

## [As Lawmakers Procrastinate on PFAS, Mothers and Newborns Pay the Price](https://mindimessmer.substack.com/p/as-lawmakers-procrastinate-on-pfas)

_2026-07-11 · Mindi Messmer, DMSc, MS, PG,CG_

Key Takeaways

## [Sewage in the Merrimack: A Holiday Crisis Years in the Making](https://mindimessmer.substack.com/p/sewage-in-the-merrimack-a-holiday)

_2026-07-02 · Mindi Messmer, DMSc, MS, PG,CG_

Key Takeaways

## [The Chemours Settlement Is Historic. It Is Also Incomplete.](https://mindimessmer.substack.com/p/the-chemours-settlement-is-historic)

_2026-06-26 · Mindi Messmer, DMSc, MS, PG,CG_

The federal government's first PFAS manufacturer settlement is real, and it is not enough.

## [The Government Knows. It Just Doesn’t Care.](https://mindimessmer.substack.com/p/the-government-knows-it-just-doesnt)

_2026-06-20 · Mindi Messmer, DMSc, MS, PG,CG_

I submitted this piece for publication this week.

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## [Trump EPA rollback of drinking water protections poses risk](https://mindimessmer.substack.com/p/trump-epa-rollback-of-drinking-water)

_2026-06-06 · Mindi Messmer, DMSc, MS, PG,CG_

Stefany Shaheen, Mindi Messmer, and Andrea Amico, Guest Columnists for Seacoastonline, posted on June 5, 2026