Environmental Health: Look, Listen, Read: August 2026
“Environmental health news moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look, listen, and read, you could miss it.”
Talking Toxins
Unpacking the science on chemicals and health, challenging industry spin and wellness myths, and sharing my unfiltered thoughts on toxins, health, and wellness culture. Currently pursuing my MPH @ UML
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If everything is toxic, nothing is toxic
Or: why binary thinking is the death of nuance.
Things to Read, Listen, and Watch
Some of the top environmental-health-related things I've come across recently, plus some other goodies.
RFK wants kids to have access to cancer-causing tanning beds
Instead of Make American Healthy Again, how about Make It Make Sense?
Which administrations pass more health-protective policies and fewer health-harming policies?
In other words, are both parties the same when it comes to environmental policies?
Yes, let's gut safe drinking water funding by 90%. This sounds like a great idea.
that's sarcasm. this idea is shit.
What I'm reading (and doing) this week
(or planning to)
Lara, where have you been?
Catatonic, and ingesting some of the worst news ever. You?
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Product Marketers Bank On Your Ignorance
or why "cholesterol-free" orange juice was actually a thing
Gas Stoves: A Century of Marketing, Misinformation, and Indoor Air Pollution
Raise your hand if you’ve heard someone say that their food “just tastes better” when cooked on a gas stove.