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Right-wing media coverage of this year’s COP28 global climate summit included mocking, downplaying, and denying the reality that the climate crisis is increasingly claiming lives through extreme weather and climate-fueled disease — tactics right-wing media figures have deployed for at least the past three years. On December 4, Hillary Clinton participated in a COP28 panel focused on the key role women play in building a climate-resilient world. During her remarks, Clinton referenced a recent...

U.S. Sens. Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin and U.S. Rep. Nikki Budzinski made the request for a public health assessment in response to reporting by the Belleville News-Democrat.

FORT MOHAVE — Residents of a Fort Mohave neighborhood plan to show up in full force at Mondays Mohave County Board of Supervisors meeting to voice their opposition to a

In rural Ondo state, people are preparing for the annual dry spell – which brings with it, among other threats, an increased risk of rat-borne, deadly Lassa fever.

HHS, as part of the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), is announcing the release of the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5).

Camp Lejeune’s cancer rates were compared in a study to those at Camp Pendleton, a California Marine base that did not have fuel-tainted drinking water.

Cancer and mortality studies conducted by a U.S. health agency have found elevated cancer rates in military and civilian personnel who lived and worked at Camp Lejeune, a major American military... -November 10, 2023 at 06:51 am EST - MarketScreener

Military and civilian personnel who worked and lived at a contaminated military base developed cancer at an unusual rate, Reuters reported.

Micaela Burrow Daily Caller News Foundation Military and civilian personnel who lived and worked at a contaminated military base developed cancer at an unusual rate, Reuters reported, citing an epidemiologist familiar with recent research by a U.S. health agency. The study shows people stationed at the Marine Corps’ Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, came down with…

The Environmental Protection Agency will soon strengthen lead in drinking water regulations. Lead levels have dropped drastically over the last several decades. Lead in drinking water has improved, too, but it’s remained a stubborn problem. Lead in tap water is difficult to regulate and advocates had to push hard to enact the first set of comprehensive rules in the early 1990s. Those rules helped but didn’t prevent crisis in Washington D.C., Flint, Michigan, and other communities. So...